Actual Dialogue
For whatever reason the following exchange, which happened at a party in London’s Soho district sometime in early December 1980, has never left my memory. It was a really great gathering, thrown (or so I recall) by Time Out magazine. It was crowded and everyone was half bombed and the music had a great tribal drum thing going on. This is how it went:
Me: Who are we listening to?
Guy #1: What?
Me: (shouting in his ear) Who’s playing?
Guy #1: You know who it is.
Me: I do? It’s not coming to me.
Guy #2: You know who it is…say it!
Guy #1: You know who it is!
Me: Bow Wow Wow?
Guy #2: That’s right.
Three or four days earlier I had been woken up at a place I was staying in Stockwell with the news that John Lennon was dead. I was over there to do a GQ profile interview with Peter O’Toole. O’Toole wasn’t very receptive at first, but it eventually happened and the piece turned out fine.
BOWWOWWOWPEARCAKESITDOWNACTION SAYS…
[Wells to bastardo: The bulls of Pamplona have converted you into a stain. Thanks for playing.]
I love “Do You Wanna Hold Me” but also “Arrows in my Quiver”- the latter has an offensive Native American motif, but what do you expect from Malcolm McLaren producing a teenaged lead singer and possibly massive amounts of coke or turn of the 70s/80s whatever,
The irony, of course, is that you were all listening to the seminal 1980 K-tel album “Great Tribal Drum Things,” but were too drunk to realize it.
Could have been worse, Jeff. If this conversation had happened a few years later your friend would be forcing you to say “Kajagoogoo”.
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