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'Amarillo' video crashes Ministry of Defense Computer System

A spoof video of the song (Is This The Way To) Amarillo, performed by British soldiers in Iraq, has crashed Ministry of Defence computers.

Troops in the Royal Dragoon Guards shot a home video at their Al Faw base of their version of the video sung by Tony Christie and mimed by Peter Kay, that topped the British charts for six weeks in aid of Comic Relief.

They e-mailed it to Army friends in London, but so many tried to download it that the MoD server could not cope.

The MoD said the spoof was "brilliant" and the crash did not cause problems.

The Dragoon Guards were on a six-month peacekeeping tour when the video was shot with a handheld video camera, and are now back at their base in Munster, Germany.

Sgt Parr, speaking from Munster, said: "We did the video towards the end of our six-month tour in Iraq.

"It had been a lot of hard work and we just wanted to get a bit of a laugh and lift morale."

He was aware that the MoD computer system had crashed but said: "I didn't get into trouble.

"I was told it had done no harm and that everyone - the lads and everyone else - had loved it."

He said Christie had rung to congratulate him.

You can watch the video here - http://www.big-boys.com/articles/armyrillo.html