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Post by redbrain on Jun 8, 2008 18:55:44 GMT
Er, this is all a bit one-sided. Isn't it about time we had a sexy singing blokes thread?  You could always start one - if you think there are any sexy singing blokes.  |
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Post by franklinmarsh on Jun 9, 2008 7:58:57 GMT
...the magnificent Guns Of Navarone (later covered by The Specials) The original Guns Of Navarone is a classic. The Skatalites where never as good again after MacLean left and Hammond Innes took over keyboard duties. Although The Trojan Horse (Trojan, 1941) has a few good tunes, and the later Campbell's Kingdom, featuring vocals by UB40's Ali Campbell (who actually changed his first name in honour of Alistair Maclean) is still rightly regarded as a defining moment in the careers of all concerned. Of course, some of the best music of that era came out of Ian "Scratch" Fleming's Goldeneye studio in Jamaica, which mysteriously burned down in the early '80s, but not before he'd helped launch Shirley Bassey, Sheena Easton and Duran Duran as international singing stars. Tremendous stuff s! We're meandering a little from Glampunk's original premise (which, let's be honest, was probably a cheap excuse for some knicker-flashing photos) but this is genuinely fascinating. Matt Monro (there's a hunky male singer Caroline! Well, he's male - and a singer) Eurovision contestant, wrote When Eight Bells Toll then went on to collaborate with 'Scratch' on the years ahead of it's time From Russia With Dub album featuring Donovan 'Red Stripe' Grant, a unique mixture of Turkish Beats, echo-chamber balalaikas, and, according to 'Scratch' - pounds of ganja) I was never much for Hammond 'Organ' Innes or his cohort Desmond Bagley - I found Des's progressive jazz album Robert Wyatt's Hurricane almost as unlistenable as MacLean's greatest catastrophe, the hip hop pop pap Vanilla Ice Station Zebra. |
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Post by dem on Jun 9, 2008 8:52:01 GMT
Tremendous stuff s! We're meandering a little from Glampunk's original premise (which, let's be honest, was probably a cheap excuse for some knicker-flashing photos) but this is genuinely fascinating. Libel! Ooh! Well isn't that just TYPICAL. I turn my back for FIVE MINUTES and what do we find? The only two photo's of Cosey wearing clothes if you overlook that one of her in the sensible chunky jumper. And worse! Debbie Harry. Dressed as a schoolgirl, no less. Saying "Oh dem, you're so masterful and dominating (flutter, flutter). I need (wink) .... lessons." It's a scandal, and you ought to be THOROUGHLY ASHAMED OF YOURSELVES. Let's hope nobody posts any more of Kylie in her undies. I don't think I could stand that again. I'm going to have one of my "lie down"s now ..... |
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Post by franklinmarsh on Jun 9, 2008 12:26:25 GMT
I need (wink) .... lessons Huh! You're sailing bloody close to the wind there! |
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Post by jkdunham on Jun 9, 2008 23:53:56 GMT
Matt Monro... wrote When Eight Bells Toll then went on to collaborate with 'Scratch' on the years ahead of it's time From Russia With Dub album... was, of course, a seminal work. Following its release, it became standard practice for writers to release a dub version of their latest title alongside the 'vocal version'. Maclean responded with Where Eagles Dub, although it was Fleming himself, with such classics as You Only Dub Twice and Live and Let Dub, who really made the style his own (although his attempt at an album for children, Chitty Chitty Dub Dub, was less well received). Interestingly, although Fleming did much to popularise dub, British authors had been experimenting with echo and reverb effects on instrumental versions of their novels as early as 1811, such as Jane "Tubby" Austen's Dub and Dubibility. There was a great deal of rivalry between Fleming, Maclean, Bagley and Innes, but Fleming's pioneering production work, with his regular studio musicians The Upshakers (not The Upstirrers), earned him considerable respect among his contemporaries and he even provided some of them with their best known hits, such as the classic "007" by Desmond Bagley and The Aces. Next time: Barbara Cartland and the New Wave Of British Heavy Metal... |
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Post by franklinmarsh on Jun 10, 2008 11:56:34 GMT
(although his attempt at an album for children, Chitty Chitty Dub Dub, was less well received). ] Happy memories! My unsuspecting parents bought me that album. I'll never forget the look of horror on their faces when the needle hit the vinyl and Dick Van Dyke Parks boomed out 'Me Old Bamboo-oo-oo-oo-oo' - an incredible sound considering we only had a tiny mono Dansette. It was only when I picked up Scratch's other stuff that I realised how much Albert R 'Dubby' Broccoli had watered down his sound. A copy of Princess Far I (formerly Emily Bronte)'s limited edition Wuthering Dub (Version) recently went for £1,500 at auction! Anyway, back to the important stuff - It was Barbara Cartland's third album Number Of The Beastly Cad featuring hit single Run To The Mills (& Boon) that really showed that the NWOBHM (Romantic Division) were here to stay...... |
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Post by pulphack on Jun 10, 2008 17:33:56 GMT
It is a little known fact that Saxon's Biff Byford financed the bands early demos by penning several tomes for Mills & Boon. He was put wise to this method of financing the band by Stinky Turner from the Cockney Rejects, better known as Nora Roberts, these days (though Cass Pennant will pay you a visit on Stinky's behalf if you ever let this slip.. hang on, there's the doorbell...)
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Post by franklinmarsh on Jun 11, 2008 8:45:49 GMT
Stinky never mentioned that in his autobiography. Biff carried on the good work, linking up with Rob Halford to become Danielle Steele - (a mangling of Denim & Leather and British Steel).
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Post by pulphack on Jun 11, 2008 10:28:50 GMT
cass has asked me nicely to retract my remarks about that very nice man Jeff Geggus aka Stinky Turner, and i will sign a full apology as soon as my arm is out of traction.
(btw, shouldn't that autobiography be filed under fantasy - 'we wanted to be aerosmith' etc... irony being that they wanted to be a metal band when they'd defined a whole style, and not many do that! a bit like discharge wanting to be led zep in the mid-80's, with that bloke rocky shades from wrathchild replacing cal - WHAT were they thinking??)
another little known fact is that burke shelley from budgie is in fact related to percy byshe of this parish, and has inherited a little of the scribbler's art. however, his attempt to cash in on the NWOBR (new wave of british romance) foundered when he decided to base his books on existing songs. even five star baulked at a romance novel called 'In The Grip Of A Tyrefitters Hand', claiming it was too steamy for Woolworths. 'Baby You're The Biggest Thing Since Powdered Milk' was deemed too odd, but he did get Grove Press to publish 'Nude Disintigrating Parachutist Woman' by pretending that it was a study of Duchamp, and not about a woman on a cardiff council estate who finds and loses love with an RAF parachutist on leave.
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Post by redbrain on Jun 12, 2008 14:51:50 GMT
Let's hope nobody posts any more of Kylie in her undies. I don't think I could stand that again. Ooh - yes please, Janitor of Lunacy! Another of Kylie in her undies would be most welcome. |
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Post by dem on Jun 14, 2008 7:59:07 GMT
Ooh - yes please, Janitor of Lunacy! Another of Kylie in her undies would be most welcome. You'd like that, wouldn't you? Well ..... ..... Suffer! A pre-Spice Girl's Geri Halliwell when she was earning her crust decorating a modern edition of Anon's Victorian "classic of erotica", A Man With A Maid. Unfortunately, I don't have a publisher's/ publication date. But someone's bound to know ..... |
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Post by redbrain on Jun 14, 2008 16:36:25 GMT
Thank you Janitor of Lunacy!  Is that really the very lovely Geri Halliwell? It certainly looks a bit like her. Retro undies and a cane in her hand -- most satisfactory!!  (The smiley bottom is being presented for the cane, of course.) And this is the after shot --  |
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Post by phantomrider on Dec 13, 2008 9:50:20 GMT
Not sure if this is the right place for this - not exactly a pop princess, but certainly a pop culture icon - but 50s pin up Bettie Page died on Thursday age 85. She showed us that there was more to the Fifties than poodle skirts and platinum blondes, much more infact! RIP.
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Post by dem on Dec 13, 2008 13:47:19 GMT
Not sure if this is the right place for this - not exactly a pop princess, but certainly a pop culture icon - but 50s pin up Bettie Page died on Thursday age 85. She showed us that there was more to the Fifties than poodle skirts and platinum blondes, much more infact! RIP. This is very sad news, and coming on top of Oliver Postgate and Forrest J. Ackerman that's three pop culture greats gone in one year. Strange thing, I was gonna start a Bettie Page thread (been using a photo of her as my avitar for a few years now) very recently, too, but I figured ph*t*bucket would throw a fit over the book covers. So this should cheer them up no end: The only copy of Andy Warhol's Interview I ever bothered buying was the July 1993 issue purely on the strength of what they claimed was the first ever Bettie Page interview (conducted by her old accomplice in cheesecake, photographer Bunny Yeager!). I knew she'd got Religion and joined up with Billy Graham in the 'sixties, so I was fearing the worst, that she'd look back on the Irving Klaw years as terrible and frown upon the whole glamour thing as exploitative and she wished she'd never done it. But ...... "The other models and I enjoyed doing those crazy things (the "charmingly staged bondage shots"). We laughed about it. The craziest thing I was asked to do was pose as a pony, wearing a leather outfit, with a head and everything. We just died laughing .... I just enjoyed all my years as a model and I don't regret any of that. And I certainly enjoyed working with you [Bunny Yeager]. You did some beautiful pictures of me." I'd go along with that. RIP Bettie. |
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Post by andydecker on Dec 13, 2008 21:35:18 GMT
Sad news indeed.
I became rather late aware of Bettie Page. The first was in a comic by Dave Stevens I guess.
The thing about Bettie´s stuff is that it is so very tame. Not even really erotic. It is just fun.
I read she had a hard life. She deserved better.
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(The smiley bottom is being presented for the cane, of course.) And this is the after shot -- 
