Music says it all for 'missing' Blair

0 Comments | AFP, May, 2007

LONDON (AFP) — Tony Blair's speech Thursday announcing his decision to quit as the leader of Britain's ruling Labour Party was preceded by rousing music and as usual the lyrics said it all.

Before Blair took to the stage at the Trimdon Labour Club, in the northeast England constituency of Sedgefield he has represented since 1983, Everything But The Girl's "Missing" got the party faithful in the mood.

"Missing" was first released in 1994 -- the same year the now 54-year-old Blair became Labour leader -- and charted poorly.

But it wasn't until the following year that producer Todd Terry remixed it as a dance track that it took off and the unfashionable band once loved only by die-hard fans became hip.

Rather like the once unelectable Labour Party...