My Life With Rock N' Roll People
The phrase or expression “Freak Out!” has been around for some time now but this was how I discovered it, on the handsome sleeve of The Mothers of Invention debut studio album. Although not aware of it at the time I must have been drifting in some kind of alternative universe. Released in June 1966, I was at school in…
You will probably be familiar with the phrase “Publish and be damned!”, an exhortation used by newspaper editors and publishers in many a film and TV show over the years. The origin of the expression dates back to Regency times involving one Harriette Wilson, the most notorious courtesan of that lascivious era. At the age of 15 she became the mistress…
“Ian’s death was an unbelievable marketing campaign,” according to one of the speakers at the recent launch of the revised edition of Shadowplayers: The Rise and Fall of Factory Records by James Nice (Faber). James was on a panel which also included Peter Saville, the graphic designer who co-founded Factory Records with TV presenter Tony Wilson in 1978, and Lesley Gilbert,…
