Singing

1. The ability to sing comes from human evolution. Like with birds, the better the person can sing, the better the potential for mating and therefore the survival of the species. This is why Michael Ball can make a fanny wet at 50 paces.

2. In today's society, more than at any other time in history, singers are worshipped by the public. A recent government poll indicated that one singers life is considered to have more worth than 20 heart surgeons.

3. It used to take singers a lifetime to have a full career, but thanks to Simon Cowell and modern technology a singer can now complete their entire career in less than 6 months. 

4. Opera singers can famously make glass shatter by hitting the right resonant frequency. Singer David Hasslehoff attempted this at a gig in Berlin in 1989 and ended communism.

5. Jihadist bad boys The Taliban are against all forms of music, especially singing, which is banned in Afghanistan.  This however has not stopped production company Freemantle Media getting it's foot in the door of Afghan telly, they launch their new show in August;The X-Fatwa.

6. Thanks to modern technology we can all be singers. If you are attractive but can't sing you can have your voice manipulated to sound in tune. Alternatively if you can sing but your dog ugly, the addition of a digital sob story helps. 

7. Mafia member and croon legend Frank Sinatra famously said he was born with a song in his heart. His autopsy showed this was what finally killed him. 

8. Music can give the downtrodden a voice to protest the many injustices in the world. Like when tinpot nations who aren't important like Albania or Denmark deliberately give England a low score in the Eurovision Song Contest. 

9. Historians from the Natural History Museum have discovered that ancient civilisations trapped the souls of singers in vinyl discs.

10. Ever since the mid 80's Karaoke has been a mainstay of British culture. But would that be the case if more people knew what Karaoke actually meant in Japanese? Well it probably would be, as Karaoke is Japanese for 'over weight attention seeking fat woman, whose family have been too kind to tell her that she has all the vocal talent of a squirrel in a meat grinder'.