great to see you posting again, john. a couple of comments:
Live performance in Sweden in late 1987, outside Abba offices, when burning copies of their debut LP. According to the "Shag Times" sleeve notes, anyway.
i recall that later on B&J vaguely admitted that they made all this up, and hadn't been to sweden at all. alas I can't back this up with a credible source, maybe someone else can remember? likewise:
the Village Hall in Newton Mearns, Dumfriesshire, his home town; this is also where ÂThe Man was recorded
again, bill was questioned later on this, in a music press interview i read in the early nineties, and admitted that "the man" hadn't been recorded in dumfriesshire at all, it was recorded down south, but "that's where i was in my head, at the time of the recording".. yet i don't think any of this would justify the oft cited label of 'hoaxer' - after all, it's all part of the creative license, t -- ___________________________________________________________ Sign-up for Ads Free at Mail.com http://promo.mail.com/adsfreejump.htm
Not sure about that, but at least I got a picture of the prostitute they handed one copy of '1987', so at least that part of the story must be true. ..::// Thomas Touzimsky A Life? Cool! Where can I download one of those from? -----Ursprüngliche Nachricht-----
Live performance in Sweden in late 1987, outside Abba offices, when burning copies of their debut LP. According to the "Shag Times" sleeve
notes, anyway.
i recall that later on B&J vaguely admitted that they made all this up, and hadn't been to sweden at all. alas I can't back this up with a credible source, maybe someone else can remember? likewise:
Quoting Tony Stuart <habibi@inorbit.com>:
Live performance in Sweden in late 1987, outside Abba offices, when burning copies of their debut LP. According to the "Shag Times" sleeve notes, anyway.
i recall that later on B&J vaguely admitted that they made all this up, and hadn't been to sweden at all. alas I can't back this up with a credible source, maybe someone else can remember?
Since they took an NME writer and a photographer with them, the likelihood of fakeness is reduced. (Then again, IIRC the reporter was James Brown, and he's never been above gussying up (or largely fabricating) a story for the sake of either fun or publicity - refer to his period as manager for Fabulous...)
I'm sure that Bill, Jimmy, James Brown and a photographer (not in my office so can't look at back issues for camera op's details) actually went to Sweden! See cover of JAMS LP2 for more evidence. I agree that some of the details published by Mr. Brown and later comments by B & J bear, er, a certain amount of scrutiny. In terms of the concert there, wasn't there a performance on the ferry for which they received a Toblerone in exchange? Maybe I'm just muddying the waters here. Incidentally, I agree that Stuey's research on KLF stuff (referred to in earlier post) is superb. Moreover, agree too with earlier poster that Mr. Milne is very welcome back! I'm still holding on to the claim that it was Scottish pound notes at the Helter Skelter gig. Finally, can't we <he asked plaintively> have another Kompetition? Eternally yours, Angus
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