Martin David Fry is an English singer, songwriter, and record producer... (wikipedia)
I wanted a name that would put us first in the phone directory, or second if you count ABBA.
We are committed and if we succeed we'll succeed magnificently, and if we fail it will be a magnificent failure. The magnificence is important.
It's a pleasure playing your big hit records and it's a real joy to see the audience.
Sinatra was pretty astute - he used the best songwriters around, he used all the resources, he covered every song from the era basically.
I don't really like groups that make the same statement over and over again. It's good, but kind of predictable.