"No, that never happened, he tells FourFourTwo on behalf of Video Gamer. These days you would be asked but, back then, it wasn't like that at all. Glenn Hoddle and Chris Waddle did a song together, Gazza did a song, even Pele did a song. But those were pop songs especially written for those guys. There wasn't a proper crossover between established music artists and footballers back then."
"We weren't truly celebrities back in my day. Not like today, when you see Premier League footballers hanging out with rappers, Formula 1 drivers and movie stars and all the rest of it. What could have been John Barnes' album cover, in 2006 (Image credit: Alamy) We didn't do that at all, he continues. We weren't hanging out with pop stars. There wasn't this idea of, Hey, we're all from different walks of life but we're all celebrities together'."
Modern footballers frequently cross into the music industry, with players releasing albums and collaborating with established artists. For decades John Barnes remained the primary example of a footballer rapper because of his 1986 verse on New Order's World in Motion. Those lyrics did not lead to further music opportunities or a sustained recording career for Barnes. In the 1980s footballers sometimes recorded pop singles tailored to them, as with Glenn Hoddle, Chris Waddle, Paul Gascoigne and Pele, but there was no genuine crossover with established musicians. Footballers of that era were not treated as cultural celebrities and rarely socialised with pop stars.
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