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The three or four tracks I hear sound fantastic warped, surreal country rock, for want of a better word, all of which subsequently appear on the first of three astonishing albums by The Alpha Band, who are by then just Mansfield, Soles and Burnett. About six people world wide ever get to hear The Alpha Band back then, and in the face of quite colossal public indifference they throw in the proverbial towel after 1978's The Statue Makers Of Hollywood. More recently, I've raved about T Bone's first solo album, ''Truth Decay'', in a feverishly enthusiastic review in Melody Maker. | The three or four tracks I hear sound fantastic warped, surreal country rock, for want of a better word, all of which subsequently appear on the first of three astonishing albums by The Alpha Band, who are by then just Mansfield, Soles and Burnett. About six people world wide ever get to hear The Alpha Band back then, and in the face of quite colossal public indifference they throw in the proverbial towel after 1978's The Statue Makers Of Hollywood. More recently, I've raved about T Bone's first solo album, ''Truth Decay'', in a feverishly enthusiastic review in Melody Maker. | ||
Back to Elvis, though, who's telling me the record he's made with T Bone, a single called "The People's Limousine," is going out under the name of The Coward Brothers, which is meant, I guess, to be some kind of wry side-project, for which Elvis explains he and T Bone have assumed the sibling aliases of Henry (T Bone) and Howard (Elvis). I tell Elvis I'd like to speak to him and T Bone about the record and he says he and T Bone will do an interview the following Sunday at the Duke Of York theatre in St Martin's Lane, where they are playing a show together, T Bone supporting. I'm going anyway ,so this all sounds like a plan. There's one condition, Elvis now tells me — I have to fabricate a fictional biography for The Coward Brothers, and interview them in character, as Henry and Howard. | Back to Elvis, though, who's telling me the record he's made with T Bone, a single called "The People's Limousine," is going out under the name of The Coward Brothers, which is meant, I guess, to be some kind of wry side-project, for which Elvis explains he and T Bone have assumed the sibling aliases of Henry (T Bone) and Howard (Elvis). I tell Elvis I'd like to speak to him and T Bone about the record and he says he and T Bone will do an interview the following Sunday at the Duke Of York theatre in St Martin's Lane, where they are playing a show together, T Bone supporting. I'm going anyway, so this all sounds like a plan. There's one condition, Elvis now tells me — I have to fabricate a fictional biography for The Coward Brothers, and interview them in character, as Henry and Howard. | ||
I duly work up quite a history for The Coward Brothers , and in the version of their careers I concoct, they're making a comeback of sorts with The People's Limousine," after many sullen years of mutual hostility in the wake of an acrimonious split at the height of their popularity. I date the start of their reunion as the show the previous December that Elvis and T Bone had played at the Royal Festival Hall. It seems to read fairly convincingly, I must say, and I have it printed up as a bogus record company biography, along with a fictitious discography. | I duly work up quite a history for The Coward Brothers, and in the version of their careers I concoct, they're making a comeback of sorts with The People's Limousine," after many sullen years of mutual hostility in the wake of an acrimonious split at the height of their popularity. I date the start of their reunion as the show the previous December that Elvis and T Bone had played at the Royal Festival Hall. It seems to read fairly convincingly, I must say, and I have it printed up as a bogus record company biography, along with a fictitious discography. | ||
I then meet Elvis and T Bone at the Duke Of York. Elvis, who's going through one of his early beardy phases, introduces me to T Bone, and like everyone who meets him for the first time I'm struck by his wholly imposing height, his tallness, if there's such a word, some thing always remarked upon, as if you can't see his head for the clouds around it, birds of some kind of prey with breath-taking wingspans circling his of lofty noggin as they might some Andean peak. | I then meet Elvis and T Bone at the Duke Of York. Elvis, who's going through one of his early beardy phases, introduces me to T Bone, and like everyone who meets him for the first time I'm struck by his wholly imposing height, his tallness, if there's such a word, some thing always remarked upon, as if you can't see his head for the clouds around it, birds of some kind of prey with breath-taking wingspans circling his of lofty noggin as they might some Andean peak. |
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