[Richard:] I'm / too sexy for my cat, / too sexy for my cat, / oh, pauvre pussy-cat! / I'm / too sexy for my cat, / too sexy for my cat, / oh, pauvre pussy-cat! /

[Sarah:] Pussycat! / Ba ba-ba ba, ba ba-ba ba / Pussycat! /

I'm a model, / you know what I mean? / I do my little turn on the cat-walk, / on the cat-walk, / on the cat-walk, / I shake my little tush on the cat-walk, yeah! /

[Richard:] I'm / too shaky for my Stevens, / too shaky for my Stevens, / too shaky by half! / "I'm / too sexy for the Fred, / too sexy for the Fred." / Mister Parrot said. /

[Sarah:] Mister Parrot said. / Ba ba-ba ba, ba ba-ba ba /

I'm a model, / you know what I mean? / I do my little turn on the cat-walk, / on the cat-walk, / on the cat-walk, / I shake my little tush on the cat-walk, yeah!

Credits

Composition:

• Richard Fairbrass
• {his brother
• David(?) Fairbrass}
• {that old rocker guy
• ??? Manzoli

Vocals:

• Richard Fairbrass
• Sarah Cracknell

References

This is a cover of Right Said Fred's wonderful Number One debut single. Surely that group were a gift from the gods.

The new lyrics are Pete Wiggs'. Shakin' Stevens is a crumbly old British pop-rocker, This Old House, you know. God knows who Mister Parrot is though...

Trivia

Here's the band talking about the track, and the Terence Higgins Trust benefit ep single that it came from.

Bob:
It got the Rockingbirds on Top Of The Pops.
Pete:
It had one of the worst videos ever made.
Bob:
It was Jeff's idea. When Right Said Fred's Deeply Dippy came out, I said to Jeff, don't you think this sounds like the Rockingbirds? He said, Flowered Up were doing a version of Don't Talk, Just Kiss. Then he screams, The Fred ep!! That left us with I'm Too Sexy. It would have come out earlier, but we left it hanging in the air because we didn't want it after Join Our Club in case people thought we were a total novelty group. We waited until Avenue came out first.

Versions and sources

I'm Too Sexy

• The Fred EP [vinyl twelve inch]
• The Fred EP [CD]

I'm Too Sexy (edit)

• The Fred EP [vinyl seven inch]
• The Fred EP [cassette]