During Plague Time Lloyd Cole has set up a Patreon page, and has been posting lots of nice things from his basement archive ~ from notebooks, lyric sheets, photos, guitar lessons to mini-concerts Etc. It's quite fab.
To-day he unearthed a wee notebook that he tagged as '
Pop Life circa 1985' ~
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~ with the following explanatory note:
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No ideas what those numbers refer to.
Not worried about posting Mozza's phone number - he changed it at least 3 times in the year that I knew him. I had to call his PA each time to get the new one. The third time I tired of it. He sent me postcard saying - you never call!
I would have done...
Don't think I went to the Albert Hall Fashion Aid thing, in the end."
Also posted a lyric sheet for "
James" a song from "
Easy Pieces", and the notebook genesis of the lyric.
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~ with the following comment:
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I should have known that not everything was completely kosher with Morrissey when he told me this was the best thing I'd ever done.
Ah, fond memories.
As most of you know, I regard this entire song as a mistake, but it was an earnest and naive one. I really thought we were making something like Loneliness of a Long Distance Runner meets a Tom Waits track, but our DNA was all wrong to even try. Oh, well..."
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It would be cute if SPM did something archival like this. Just like it would be cute if í were to wed Rooney Mara...
NB {for Mr Cole}
~ Would you follow and know / Know me more than you do / Track me down / And try to win me...
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