i was digging out my collection of CD singles for a variety of reasons when i discovered my three Paul Rutherford singles - Get Real, I Want Your Love and Oh World. all of them are classics, and i got to wondering why exactly there was never an album from the class dancer out of Frankie Goes To Hollywood. so i had a look on the interwebnet thingie, and guess what i somehow missed......
now your guess is as good as mine as to how me, a Frankie fan, didn't ever look for or find this one! oh well, at least it exists, and there does seem to be the potential to get a copy of it.
there are a number of second hand copies doing the rounds on the interwebnet, and they seem to be a pretty decent price, even including shipping. the trick is, of course, i have just blown all that i considered to be spare cash on the Twin Peaks box set.
hmn, well, quite a dilemma. i will give the three singles another spin, and then perhaps consider sleeping on the matter. i think that it should be in my collection, but then again it is not like (shock! horror!) i have all of Holly's solo material - i never upgraded the second album from him from tape to CD, at least.
there is of course a very easy answer to this problem. Paul Rutherford probably has one or two spare copies of it kicking around the house. Paul Rutherford currently lives in New Zealand (i think, that was the last i heard). my sister and her family live in New Zealand........get the hint, Gillian, invite him over!!!
be excellent to each other, and don't be surprised to learn that this album gets ordered in the near future...............
It being Christmas season and all, I would approach it in a fashion that thinks that alot of the time one receives gifts that mean absolutely nothing (socks, ties etc), so why not indulge oneself in a pastime that one used to, and still does enjoy. In other words, buy it, listen to it and if it is indeed crap, it merely forms part of those gifts falling in the genre of "unwanted". Nothing ventured, nothing gained as they say...
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