One of the highlights of the night, which did impress Shania and the Lytham Festival audience much, was the appearance of St Annes superfan 81-year-old Ken Northall – who was personally invited on to stage for a chat.
The veteran fan who has been going to Shania shows in the UK and USA for 25 years was rendered speechless as he met his country music idol who then dedicated That Don’t Impress Me Much to him changing the lyrics to pay tribute to Ken, rather than Brad Pitt.
The veteran fan who has been going to Shania shows in the UK and USA for 25 years was rendered speechless as he met his country music idol who then dedicated That Don’t Impress Me Much to him changing the lyrics to pay tribute to Ken, rather than Brad Pitt.
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00:00You're not going to believe it, but we found Ken.
00:08Where is Ken? How can I meet Ken?
00:18Ken!
00:25Will you come to me to the center of the stage?
00:28Of course.
00:30Let's go.
00:41These are your fans.
00:42I know. For two minutes.
00:44This is awesome. Hold on.
00:46I need to join you, Ken, with my hat.
00:51Okay.
00:53I've got to get it the right way on.
00:56This is a Stetson, right?
00:57Yes.
00:58Yes, it is.
01:00Ken, do you have a favorite song of mine?
01:03The one I remember most is, because it was an award-winning video,
01:07is Don't Be Stupid, because of the Irish dancing in the water trough.
01:13That's right.
01:14Can you dance like that?
01:16No, no, no.
01:20What about singing? Do you like to sing?
01:22No, dear, I don't sing either.
01:24He's not going to sing or dance.
01:26I don't go on stage either.
01:28I mean, this is...
01:30These guys are all here listening to every word that you say.
01:34Come on, Litham. Give some love to Ken.
01:42Unbelievable.
01:44I'm just so happy to meet you,
01:45and I know that you only live a few minutes from here.
01:48Yes, I live three or four miles away.
01:51So, I mean, come on, this is fabulous.
01:54How did you get here? Did you take a bike?
01:56You don't live... It's not worth driving here when there's a concert.
01:59It's a bus, dear.
02:00Oh, it's a bus. Good. I love that.
02:04Okay, I want to sing something for you, but I already did Up.
02:08Do you have a different song that you love?
02:11Apart from that one?
02:12Yeah.
02:13Well, you've done most of them already.
02:15It's true.
02:17Well, I'm about to do another one that you might know.
02:21That Don't Impress Me Much.
02:25So you got the good behavior, got the touch,
02:29now don't get me wrong.
02:31Yeah, I think you're all right.
02:33That won't keep me warm in the middle of the night.
02:39All right, so what do you think? You're Ken or something?
02:42Oh, see that? See that again? See that again?
02:45I'm impressed.
02:51Listen, I need to get a photo.
02:54Do you have a phone?
02:56Not with me, no.
02:57No, that's okay. We'll get a photo.
02:59If you look at this guy here, we'll get a photo together.
03:02We're going to get a photo together.
03:10I first saw you in 1999.
03:12In 1999.
03:14That's when I first saw you, Wembley.
03:16You saw me at Wembley, 1999.
03:18I don't even remember which album that was.
03:21It was a long time ago when I first started coming over here.
03:24And I want to say thank you for being with me all these years, Ken.
03:29My pleasure.
03:35Thank you.
03:37Wave to everyone.
03:39I'll go back into oblivion now.
03:41Oh yeah, he's going to go back into oblivion.
03:44We are in oblivion right now.
03:46Wave to everyone, Ken.
03:51Hello.
04:03I want to say hello to Elaine.
04:05That's Ken's wife.
04:07Hello, Elaine.
04:10All right, let's get you off.
04:11Unless you want to stay up here.
04:13No.
04:16But isn't the audience beautiful?
04:19Wonderful, yeah.
04:20I've never seen so many people.
04:22It's beautiful from up here, trust me.
04:24All right, Ken, we're going to get you off.
04:27We're going to get you back to Elaine, your wife.
04:42That's so sweet.
04:43Ken's like, he's saying like, this is a dream.
04:46But this is my dream.
04:48You need to know that this is, I'm living my dream.
04:54And I just, all I can say is thank you for sharing my dream.
04:57I mean, listen, you guys.
04:59I'm going to be 59 and I'm standing up here in my frigging underwear.
05:10Like, I'm loving life right now.