Complete music-journalism novice/idiot question for the actually knowing masses:
For a blog tour project for our small press, I'm supposed to be making a list of the best, smartest and most-loved music blogs or journals or anything similar out there who have a particular soft spot for discussions and histories of any and all things Beatles/Who/Lennon.
I absolutely shouldn't have offered to dig up such a list, because, as much as I love all of the above, my knowledge of the whole vast field of critical/appreciative/analytical/smart fannish writing about them, or any music really, begins and ends with "Uh, there's a book series called 33 1/3, and also Hec and Hayden are terrifyingly smart and Jon B has a kickass radio show.
Which is, it turns out, not enough to generate a possible blog tour list. I'm shocked at the depths of my ignorance, and terrified at the prospect of failing a friend and semi-boss, and begging for help. If someone with more knowledge than me wanted to ping thoughtful bloggers about discussing/reviewing/highlighting a biography of a practically unknown but excellent studio musician who had played on probably half the best-known tracks of all the above folks, especially with all the musical milestone anniversaries coming up in the next few months, whom should that person be talking to?
Any guidance would be hugely, tearfully appreciated, because right now I feel like a badly flailing moron.
I don't know the answer to that question either, JZ, but you also might ask DXM and Victor, neither of whom are here any more, but who have interests along those lines. DXM I know loved Nicky's playing. (Am I allowed to say his name?)
(Am I allowed to say his name?)
I don't see why not (don't forget to ask your local library to order a copy!).
Hec just sent me an awesomely comprehensive list; now I just need to pick through it and hunt down all the "Contact Us" info for each.
Actually, that's a good reminder. I just placed requests to my library for more of Deb's catalog and Sam the Bat, but I hadn't done Julian's.
Did the Freshies just rename the song from "I'm In Love With The Girl On The Manchester Virgin Megastore Checkout Desk" to be "I'm In Love With The Girl On A Certain Manchester Megastore Checkout Desk", or did they actually redub or re-record the song with new lyrics?
Where did you see/hear the latter?
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Nevermind. Wikipedia says this:
"Their biggest selling single and best known song is 1980's "I'm In Love With The Girl On The Manchester Virgin Megastore Checkout Desk" renamed as "I'm In Love With The Girl On A Certain Manchester Megastore Checkout Desk" on request from Radio 1 (a version with "Virgin" bleeped out to allow it to be played on the radio without being considered advertising was also released)"
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I see the latter on iTunes, and I just want to make sure it's the same song as the former.
