In the video for the 1984 hit You're The Inspiration, Chicago's Peter Cetera can be seen rocking a T-shirt with a print of the single cover for Bauhaus's Bela Lugosi's Dead. Never figured him to be the secretly tortured goth type but who knows??? (Play Spot the PIL T-shirt too for extra points!) I'd like to think that somewhere out there is an alternate universe where Chicago covered it as a straight bossa nova.
The one at Goldeneye, a hotel on Jamaica's north shore. It was originally Ian Fleming's property, sometimes mistakenly called Shamelady. According to Sting, the original desk was still there in 1983. Maybe it still is, I don't know. Fleming said he wrote all his novels there.
Luckily we finally got to hear it. One of my favorite songs of the band. Love the guitar work on this song.
The story is that hearing "Rock Lobster" was what made him want to make another record, because their appropriation of Yoko-type vocals made him think people were finally ready for her.
One thing I found out yesterday is that Little Feat percussion dude Sam Clayton is the brother of Merry Clayton who y'all know as the singer on 'Gimme Shelter' (but has a far more storied career).
Something I found amusing about Merry Clayton: she performed as a session vocalist for Neil Young (among many others), and recorded a cover of "Southern Man". She also did session vocals on "Sweet Home Alabama" with Lynyrd Skynyrd. You might say she had a foot in both camps.
After being hired by Yes, Moraz immediately pardoned Rick Wakeman, consequently resulting in Moraz's appearance on only one album.
Lambert got involved as a filmmaker initially. It was after they tried to make something happen with film that he took up management. I read the books about it, but I can't recall the format of that project.
I didn't see any mention of that in his wikipedia bio the first time I read it. Somehow I missed it. I see it now..
Ha! You're right, but I would think Jeff Barry, Andy Kim, and Don Kirshner pocketed most of the money from that song.
