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- Right Said Fred star Richard Fairbrass reckons he's made more than £10 million from the 1991 hit I'm Too Sexy.
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May 1, 2023 · The best investment that musician Fred Fairbrass of Right Said Fred has ever made was borrowing £1,500 to record 1991 hit I'm Too Sexy. The 66-year-old tells Donna Ferguson that he went from...
Oct 8, 2017 · Even though promoting a record globally is unbelievably expensive, it was worth it because I’m Too Sexy was creating a lot of money. When our career hit the skids around 1996, bizarrely our...
- Right Said Fred. One of the most successful '90s one-hit wonders, brothers Fred and Richard Fairbrass are best known for their No. 1 hit "I'm Too Sexy," which has sold 1 million copies.
- Vanilla Ice. The hit Vanilla Ice song "Ice Ice Baby" soared up the charts to the No. 1 spot in 1990 and has sold 500,000 copies. Otherwise known as Robert Van Winkle, the legendary rapper currently has a net worth of $10 million.
- Lou Bega. In 1999, Lou Bega soared to the No. 3 spot on the charts with his song "Mambo No. 5 (A Little Bit Of...)." His album "A Little Bit of Mambo" sold 3 million copies by the end of that same year.
- Chumbawamba. Inspired by a frequently drunk neighbor who had trouble getting into his house, Chumbawamba's hit song "Tubthumping" spent 31 weeks on the Billboard charts, and peaked at the No. 6 spot in 1997.
Nov 13, 2017 · Richard Fairbrass: It was the first time we’d ever made any money, so we had a holiday in Saint Lucia. There was loads and loads of homophobia in Saint Lucia at the time, so we decided to leave.
As Rich Fairbrass tells it, they had a loop playing on the computer, and inspired by his dance studio experience he spontaneously took his shirt off and started singing, "I'm too sexy for my shirt." The guys thought it was hilarious and worked up the song around the phrase.
A music video was produced to promote the single, directed by James Lebon. [20] [21] [22] In an 2017 interview, Fred Fairbrass told that they had borrowed 1,500 pounds to make the single and then another 3,000-4,000 pounds to make the video for the song. [23]
