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[Now this is interesting... Who WAS Gerry & the Holograms? Did they know him? This sounds like a lot of early live New Order. Did this guy work with New Order in the early 80s? Did this song inspire New Order?
gerry and the holograms was mostly CP Lee, former member of 70's mancunian comedy-rock band Alberto y Lost Trios Paranoias, and latter-day "cultural commentator". on drums in Albertos was Bruce Mitchell, of Durutti Column
pure_shaw wrote: http://www.discogs.com/Donna-Summer-Bad-Girls-Our-Love/release/392491
why didn't they just drag giorgio morodor into britannia row studios instead of trying to recreate all this stuff by hand?
Maybe they couldn't afford to hire him at that time.
BM was released 07/03/83. I thought about starting a new thread entitled "Happy 30th, Blue Monday" but I thought that might be a bit corny. So this'll have to do...
Debaser wrote: BM was released 07/03/83. I thought about starting a new thread entitled "Happy 30th, Blue Monday" but I thought that might be a bit corny. So this'll have to do...
It's still corny.
To mark the anniversary, the New Order Facebook site put up a YouTube link to Blue Monday.
In case you haven't heard it.
Top 10 Facts About New Order's "Blue Monday" http://www.alancross.ca/a-journal-of-musical-things/2013/3/8/top-10-facts-about-new-orders-blue-monday-which-turned-30-th.html
Does anyone know why the 83 vid never got an official release? Fuck it, they've had enough chances - Substance 89, NOStory, Best Of '94, Item...
Midnight Blue wrote: Top 10 Facts About New Order's "Blue Monday" http://www.alancross.ca/a-journal-of-musical-things/2013/3/8/top-10-facts-about-new-orders-blue-monday-which-turned-30-th.html
Some of these "facts" are questionable, specially 1 (the band never confirmed that the song is about the day after Curtis' death), 6 (the band produced themselves), 8 (nobody knows for sure how many copies were sold) and 9 (it's part of the factory records myth, but it's not true).
