From 7 to 11 November 2022 Coles guest hosted Channel 4's game show Countdown as part of its 40th anniversary celebrations. Coles moved to Friston, East Sussex in May 2022 to be closer to his friend and former manager Lorna Gradden. He said "I'll be living in a charming 18th-century cottage with a bow window that looms over the street affording a privileged view of my neighbours' comings and goings, as the scent of lavender floats across the village green." [55] [56] Legal issues [ edit ] In November 1990, Somerville's greatest-hits album The Singles Collection 1984/1990 (which featured his hits with Bronski Beat and The Communards in addition to his own material) was released; it reached number 4 on the UK Album Chart. It included a reggae cover of the Bee Gees' hit song " To Love Somebody", which also reached the UK Top 10. Also in 1990, Somerville contributed the song " From This Moment On" to the Cole Porter tribute album Red Hot + Blue produced by the Red Hot Organization, the proceeds from which benefited AIDS research.

Bringing in the Sheaves: Wheat and Chaff from My Years as a Priest (W&N, 2016, ISBN 978-0297609889)Coles was selected for training for the priesthood in the Church of England and began his training at the College of the Resurrection, Mirfield, West Yorkshire, in 2003, before being ordained in 2005. [13] [4] After ordination, he was a curate at St Botolph's Church in Boston, Lincolnshire and then at St Paul's Church, Knightsbridge in London. [14] [1] He has been chaplain of the Royal Academy of Music, played Dr Frank N Furter in a local concert and conducted an atheist funeral for Mo Mowlam in 2005. [4] [15] [16]

He has also had an acting career, appearing in Sally Potter's 1992 film of Virginia Woolf's Orlando, in Isaac Julien's 1989 Looking for Langston, and in an episode of the cult science fiction television series Lexx ("Girltown"). [12]Colin Larkin, ed. (1997). The Virgin Encyclopedia of Popular Music (Conciseed.). Virgin Books. p.293. ISBN 1-85227-745-9. European Charts of the Year 1987 – Albums" (PDF). Music & Media. Vol.4, no.51/52. 26 December 1987. p.35. OCLC 29800226– via World Radio History. Laura, Hawkins. "United Visual Artists lights up Christopher Bailey's final Burberry show". Wallpaper*. Archived from the original on 18 February 2018 . Retrieved 18 February 2018. Jimmy Somerville Supports Plight of Youth Homelessness with Nina Simone Cover | LBBOnline". www.lbbonline.com . Retrieved 21 July 2021. He regularly guest-hosted the Radio 4 programme Saturday Live, while the regular host Fi Glover was on maternity leave from 2008 to 2009. Coles replaced Glover permanently in 2011. On 1 September 2011, he presented a short piece on his home town and parish of Finedon for the Radio 4 programme You and Yours. In December 2012, December 2013 and November 2014, Coles appeared as a guest on the BBC comedy quiz show QI. In January 2014, he won the BBC's Celebrity Mastermind, with his specialist subject being the Mapp and Lucia novels of E. F. Benson.

The band had their first UK top 30 hit in 1985 with the piano-based number 30 single "You Are My World". [6] The following year, they had their biggest hit with an energetic hi-NRG [7] cover version of Harold Melvin and the Blue Notes' soul classic " Don't Leave Me This Way" (in a version inspired by Thelma Houston's cover) which spent four weeks at number one and became the UK's biggest selling single of 1986. [8] It also made the US top 40. It featured Sarah Jane Morris as co-vocalist, taking advantage of the contrast between Morris' deep and rounded contralto and Somerville's soaring falsetto. [6] Gyle, Rev. Alan (11 January 2011). "Fr Richard to move to New Parish" (PDF). StPaulsKnightsbridge.org. Archived from the original (PDF) on 12 March 2012 . Retrieved 24 January 2011. Offiziellecharts.de – Communards – Red" (in German). GfK Entertainment Charts. Retrieved 8 February 2022. European Hot 100 Albums" (PDF). Music & Media. Vol.4, no.48. 5 December 1987. p.18. OCLC 29800226– via World Radio History.

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Coles, Rev. Richard Keith Robert, (born 26 March 1962), Vicar of St Mary the Virgin, Finedon, since 2011". Who's Who 2021. Oxford University Press. 1 December 2020 . Retrieved 31 March 2021. to 1-5, 1-7, 1-8, 1-10, 1-11, 1-13 to 1-16, 2-3 to 2-5, 2-7, 2-8, 2-10 to 2-13, 2-15, 2-16: Notting Hill Music (UK) University Challenge – Christmas 2019: 1. Leeds University v Clare College, Cambridge". BBC iPlayer . Retrieved 8 January 2020. Musikdatenbank – Musiker Jimmy Somerville". Radio Swiss Pop (in German). SRG SSR. radioswisspop.ch . Retrieved 6 June 2023. RSH-Gold, 1991: Kategorie „Kraftrille des Jahres" – Lied: To Love Somebody (see section 'Auszeichnungen') a b Kent, David (1993). Australian Chart Book 1970–1992 (illustrateded.). St Ives, N.S.W.: Australian Chart Book. p.72. ISBN 0-646-11917-6.