Fact #171017
When:
Short story:
Lloyd Cole And The Commotions release their debut album, Rattlesnakes, in the UK.
Full article:
Tom Verlaine (Television) : I gotta good Cole story. Wanna hear my Lloyd Cole story? Well, I was over here (England) mixing a record in '84 and I had to do some pictures out in the East End. So I'm standing there and this guy says, 'Hey, Tom, Lloyd Cole is across the road and he wants your autograph'! I didn't know who this Lloyd Cole was, y'know. So what do I care? He came in with all these records and I autograph them. A week later, I heard he'd done a version of 'Glory', the old Television song. When I heard it, I thought, 'Uh uh, that's sort of interesting'.
Then I met his cousin or a friend of his brother from Glasgow, who told me that Cole used to come home from school and practice singing to Lou Reed and Tom Verlaine records in front of a wardrobe mirror. I thought that was hilarious! I started to listen to his stuff a little more closely and detected a bad simulation there in the vocal style.
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Then I met his cousin or a friend of his brother from Glasgow, who told me that Cole used to come home from school and practice singing to Lou Reed and Tom Verlaine records in front of a wardrobe mirror. I thought that was hilarious! I started to listen to his stuff a little more closely and detected a bad simulation there in the vocal style.
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