newvillefan
I Know My First Name Is Stephen
Hi guys
Well, for those of you who didn't get to hear the documentary yesterday, here's a little taster of what to expect. By the way, this was by far the best documentary I've heard about their lives and especially Karen. Mark Radcliffe is obviously a serious fan!!!
Off the top of my head the songs aired were:
Yesterday Once More
Iced Tea
Please Mr Postman
This Masquerade
Close To You
Occupants
Top Of The World
Superstar
But the BIG surprises were the interviews! Richard and Karen heard at length from a BBC interview in March 1982 (what on earth was Karen doing in England in 1982?). Itchy Ramone also talked about her a lot, but the biggest eye opener was Brian Southall, the A&M rep for the UK at the time. He referred to R&K as being like 'the odd couple'.
He said that Richard was the guy really into his music, but cool and relaxed; he said that when they went to see them at the Talk of the Town charity gig on the last night of their tour, he said that he finally realised that everything he thought was adlibbing all along, wasn't! In fact these were timed, rehearsed riffs and actions by all of the band, and that if any of them slipped up, it was embarassing to watch how Karen berated them in front of the whole audience.
I knew this incident had been referred to in the Ray Coleman book, but it was quite interesting just how much this was noticed by people at the time. He was saying words to the effect that if you valued your head you wouldn't do anything to cross her.
One very sad comment came from Phil Ramone: during the recording of her solo album, at the start of the sessions, she would hang around the drum booth, sit and kid around at the drums and then say "those days of singing from behind the kit are over, it doesn't do anything for my rear end".
Phil also said he and Karen were watching a video of her on TV once and he freeze framed the screen, DREW round the people on screen in crayon and then compared their rounder silhouettes to hers, but she still couldn't see it. He said she looked like a pencil compared to them. So sad.
The other interesting one was the interview with Theresa and Debbie Vaiuso, who STILL live on Hall Street in New Haven Conneticut! They said that Richard had the swing fixed to the rafters in the basement, and a rocking chair whose runners he wored out as a kid through rocking to the music that much!!!
Anyone who heard the 1 hour show, did I miss any juicy info?!!?
Stephen
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Well, for those of you who didn't get to hear the documentary yesterday, here's a little taster of what to expect. By the way, this was by far the best documentary I've heard about their lives and especially Karen. Mark Radcliffe is obviously a serious fan!!!
Off the top of my head the songs aired were:
Yesterday Once More
Iced Tea
Please Mr Postman
This Masquerade
Close To You
Occupants
Top Of The World
Superstar
But the BIG surprises were the interviews! Richard and Karen heard at length from a BBC interview in March 1982 (what on earth was Karen doing in England in 1982?). Itchy Ramone also talked about her a lot, but the biggest eye opener was Brian Southall, the A&M rep for the UK at the time. He referred to R&K as being like 'the odd couple'.
He said that Richard was the guy really into his music, but cool and relaxed; he said that when they went to see them at the Talk of the Town charity gig on the last night of their tour, he said that he finally realised that everything he thought was adlibbing all along, wasn't! In fact these were timed, rehearsed riffs and actions by all of the band, and that if any of them slipped up, it was embarassing to watch how Karen berated them in front of the whole audience.
I knew this incident had been referred to in the Ray Coleman book, but it was quite interesting just how much this was noticed by people at the time. He was saying words to the effect that if you valued your head you wouldn't do anything to cross her.
One very sad comment came from Phil Ramone: during the recording of her solo album, at the start of the sessions, she would hang around the drum booth, sit and kid around at the drums and then say "those days of singing from behind the kit are over, it doesn't do anything for my rear end".
Phil also said he and Karen were watching a video of her on TV once and he freeze framed the screen, DREW round the people on screen in crayon and then compared their rounder silhouettes to hers, but she still couldn't see it. He said she looked like a pencil compared to them. So sad.
The other interesting one was the interview with Theresa and Debbie Vaiuso, who STILL live on Hall Street in New Haven Conneticut! They said that Richard had the swing fixed to the rafters in the basement, and a rocking chair whose runners he wored out as a kid through rocking to the music that much!!!
Anyone who heard the 1 hour show, did I miss any juicy info?!!?
Stephen
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