Fact #82618
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Short story:
Johnny Remember Me by John Leyton is the new No1 single in the UK. The track is produced by Joe Meek.
Full article:
John Leyton : Joe Meek was a very progressive producer. He was way ahead of his time.
I'd always assumed recording studios to be quite glamourous. When I arrived at 304 Holloway Road to record Johnny Remember Me in the summer of 61, the first thing I saw was this leather shop, and a door to the side of it. There was this very steep, narrow staircase up to Joe's maisonette.
When you got up there, it was just a mess of cables and wires everywhere. You didn't know where it was safe to stand. Then, when we started recording, the band were dotted all over the place, some in the bedroom, some in the kitchen, some in the bathroom. Really bizarre.
We had to change the lyrics to Johnny Remember Me. Originally I sang about, 'The girl I loved who died a year ago.' The BBC didn't approve so I had to change it to, 'The girl I loved and lost a year ago.'
Siouxsie Sioux (Siouxsie And The Banshees) : My first love affair with a record was with John Leyton's Johnny Remember Me. It had these amazing ghostly backing vocals, a great melody, and it was about a dead girlfriend basically. I was three or four when it came out in 1961, and I used to have to get somebody to put it on the record player for me.
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I'd always assumed recording studios to be quite glamourous. When I arrived at 304 Holloway Road to record Johnny Remember Me in the summer of 61, the first thing I saw was this leather shop, and a door to the side of it. There was this very steep, narrow staircase up to Joe's maisonette.
When you got up there, it was just a mess of cables and wires everywhere. You didn't know where it was safe to stand. Then, when we started recording, the band were dotted all over the place, some in the bedroom, some in the kitchen, some in the bathroom. Really bizarre.
We had to change the lyrics to Johnny Remember Me. Originally I sang about, 'The girl I loved who died a year ago.' The BBC didn't approve so I had to change it to, 'The girl I loved and lost a year ago.'
Siouxsie Sioux (Siouxsie And The Banshees) : My first love affair with a record was with John Leyton's Johnny Remember Me. It had these amazing ghostly backing vocals, a great melody, and it was about a dead girlfriend basically. I was three or four when it came out in 1961, and I used to have to get somebody to put it on the record player for me.
(Source : not known)