Neville's Column

Rip It Up, Issue 12, 1 June 1978, Page 15

Neville 's Column

PLANNED for Britain soon is a New Wave Musical featuring Her Majesty the Queen as a power-mad Punk .Rocker heavily into dogs and horses. The name of the movie will be "CORGI AND BESS". Also from Britain: Roddy Llewellyn’s debut as a pop star went so well he’s looking for a serious dramatic role and is rumoured to have a small part in “Charlie’s Aunt". v . * * * TAKING my job as a rock correspondent seriously (and never, slow to smell a free piss-up), last week I conned my way into Ry Cooder's press conference. Mainly because no-one seemed interested in the obvious question, I asked the man meself: "What sort of car is -it on the cover of the Purple Valley album?” A hush fell- over the room and even the record company executives stopped drinking. A lazy, almost-menacing eye fell on NEVILLE PURVIS. "A Buick,” said Ry Cooder. “Gotta be a '4l Buick.” After that no-one seemed to have any more questions I guess because they instinctively knew the big one had been asked. I ended up getting just a shade more than half-cut and I missed Ry’s show. But me cousin Sheryl told me he turned it on handsomely and that someone called LAY ’EM ALFRED did the first half. if * * * mtbIMIiBIBBI BORN TO FLY: One of his best songs is about a drag race from L.A. to New York between two 747 Jumbojet pilots ... He’s been called THE GOLDEN EAGLE, the BYRDMANIAC, . and even DYLAN’S SHADOW: . . v ROGER McGUINN is one of the true Rock and Rollers and he's heading this way. During the sixties I remember hearing Byrds songs on an illegal crystal set I:HAD WHEN I was inside. Be interesting to see if he’s lasted the distance we’ve all passed a lot of water since then. /

TALKING ABOUT CARS as I was earlier

the other night I was havin' a natter to THE WIZARD and he revealed that Christchurch was a Punk Stronghold with bands like the DOOMED, the VANDALS, the HAEMMORRHOIDS and JOHNNY VELOX AND THE VAUXHALLS ... And the WIZ said he was thinking of forming a Punk band with the help of his Female Slaves ... The battle between NEW WAVE and DISCO is hotting up and could well peak with the release in a couple of weeks of NEVILLE S double-sided disco/new wave smash single on VERTIGO . . . Am I excited? You kin bloody bet I am!

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