Hello all, Mr John "JJ" Johnston wrote...

"This weekend I have been mostly listening to .... Lloyd Cole" and very nice it was too. But listening to "Are you ready to be heartbroken" prompted a question in my mind... who was Arthur Lee and what were his records like? I'm sure you can put me straight.

I liked the boy Coles work with the Commotions, damn fine and very under rated band that they were, but had to give up on his solo stuff after I found "Don't Get Weird on me Babe" to be amongst the worst records ever made. As for Arthur Lee, well Weeweejay beat me too it, but it brought back tales of a journalist who's name escapes me, who followed Arthur around the UK while he was on tour. They were on the way to Liverpool of all places when they had to pull over to get petrol (that's gas for the non UK birthed members of the list). After pulling into the motorway services, Arthur stepped out of the van, pulled off one of the two pairs of shades he was wearing that day and said something along the lines of, "So this is where the Beatles are from then, far out". He never was the full quid apparently. Bye bye everybody, bye bye Gary +----------------------------------------------------------------------+ +---+ Brought to you by the Sinister mailing list +---+ To send to the list please mail "sinister@majordomo.net". To unsubscribe send "unsubscribe sinister" or "unsubscribe sinister-digest" to "majordomo@majordomo.net". For list archives and searching, list rules, FAQ, poor jokes etc, see http://www.majordomo.net/sinister +---+ "legion of bedroom saddo devotees" +---+ +-+ "the cardie wearing biscuit nibbling belle & sebastian list" +-+ +----------------------------------------------------------------------+