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david essex apologist words for shindig! magazine

Promotional image for Record Collector’s XTC special magazine, showing the cover (carrying the headline “Making Plans for Vinyl”) and detailing the issue’s contents including new interviews with the four members of the 1979-83 lineup, contributions from celebrity fans and album reviews. The magazine was published on 16 July.
Me with Elvis Costello
Me (Huw) and my friend Matilda on stage spinning records.
B&W shot of a sharp-dressed man resembling Pete Murray amidst a gaggle of people.
Copy of Scott 4 on shelf.
Scott 4 (1969), Scott Walker’s album released under his birth name of Scott Engel, perched on my record shelf.
Kit Lambert described “Anyway, Anyhow, Anywhere” to reporters as, “A pop art record, containing pop art music. The sounds of war and chaos and frustration expressed musically without the use of sound effects.” A bored and then cynical Nick Cohn – Christ he was even more cynical than me – said calmly, “That’s impressionism, not pop art.” I repeated what Kit had briefed me to say. mumbling something about Peter Blake and Lichstenstein and went red. Completely out of order while your record is screaming in the background: “I can go anyway, way I choose, I can live anyhow, win or lose, I can go anywhere, for something new. Anyway anyhow anywhere.” Pete Townshend in Rolling Stone, 1971
The cover of the Shindig! magazine “Patchwork”, with Ron and Russell Mael circa 1974 pictured and the caption “SPARKS: THE EARLY YEARS”.
Fisher Price plastic radio toy featuring the melody and lyrics of “Raindrops”
Two vinyl LPs; Watertown by Frank Sinatra (German original) and The Genuine Imitation Life Gazette by the Four Seasons (US original)
The opening spread of Shindig’s article on Dave Dee, Dozy, Beaky, Mick & Tich, displaying a colour studio portrait of the group in 1968 and bearing the title “Once Upon a Time in the West Country”.
The sleeve of “Good for Nothing - The Sound Album” (1977) with the title rendered in Jamie Reid-style cut-and-paste lettering.