Friday I’m in Love
By Andrew Stevens. The Hollies’ flat, opportunistic cover of her and Chip Taylor’s ‘I Can’t Let Go’ lacked the fat bass chords and swinging chime, while her version of The Troggs’ ‘Any Way That You Want Me’ positively stole a pensive march on tea-addled Reg Presley’s original. What is it about Evie Sands’ foot-tappers that […]
Still Runnin’ Riot
Decca turned down their album and the band are that broke they sell their (or at least someone else’s) PA and bravely embark on a trip to America. Things may have turned out different if they hadn’t turned down the advances of a one Malcolm McLaren. Steve says the band simply did not fit. They did not want his ‘Sex’ fashion; they were more in tune with football hooligan attire. There’s plenty of real life stuff such as birds, drugs, booze and running pubs and all the hassle that entails. Steve runs the gauntlet of knowing people on both political divides which gets a bit tense when two rival marches kick off near the Stick of Rock, the pub he owned. And the band admit that the Live & Loud CD er… wasn’t.
Trev HAGL tells us the Cock Sparrer story.
Chris Killen eats when he feels sad
Do you?