VINTAGE QUOTES

Rip It Up, Issue 240, 1 August 1997, Page 11

VINTAGE QUOTES

“If we’d been a Japanese group, all the record company executives would have killed themselves.” MICK JONES describes the reaction to the CLASH insisting on releasing the triple album Sandinista at a bargain price — RipitUp #55, February 1982. ,\ • “In terms of world success the Beatles are on top and nobody will ever beat them, but there’s always a chance of being second. If we carry on for a few more years with albums like Dare, then we might manage second.” . The HUMAN LEAGUE’S ADRIAN WRIGHT • ■; on what wasn’t to be — • ; ' ;■' RipltUp #59, June 982. “I don’t really want that person that was me up on the screen anyway.” JIM CARROLL didn’t really get him either, when The Basketball Diaries was finally filmed a decade later — . ’ ' RipitUp #6l, August 1982. “I was a very upstanding, respectable, property-owning citizen before, in the first three years of Hello Sailor.” GRAHAM BRAZIER on the early days — . RipltUp #6l, August 1982. “Our songs are tightly structured with a plot and a statement. We aim to make listening to our records an experience, a Technicolour/Panavision effect.” ABC’s MARK WHITE comes over all cinematic — RipltUp #64, November 1982. “I’m just being coy and narcissistic so I can look more enigmatic to your readers.” The CHURCH’S STEVE KILBEY fills in the character traits for Russell Brown — ' RipltUp #67, February 1983..

“[ABC’s Martin Fry] said, ‘You’re getting | too involved in rock ’n’ roll things. Look at i us, we like to go home at the weekends to | our parents.’ And I said, ‘You don’t have j to tell me that Martin? it’s written all over ;| your face that you like to be | with your Mummy.’” I SIMPLE MINDS’ JIM KERR doesn’t take a | ' : • lecture on drug abuse lightly — ., >A I RipltUp #64,. November 1982. • .■ ■ . . ■ . . ■ .. • | . ' ■''■■' I “All your life you’re told through adverts, | movies, what your friends say, that when j you get to a certain age falling in love is I holding hands, giving each other flowers | and being in slow motion like a toilet I paper advert.” I • The PSYCHEDELIC..FURS’ RICHARD \ | BUTLER points out what ; I ‘Love My Why’ was up against — . RipltUp #66, January 1983. ■- ' ■ .'•' . '• ■ ■ i“I think that’s why we’ve achieved so much — because we’re slack.” JORDAN LUCK shows the DANCE EXPONENTS’ had the X-factor before we I had the Generation — RipltUp #69, April 1983. . A'. | I think I’ll be a millionaire by the | . time I’m 23.” ' r From the mouths of babes... JORDAN f LUCK again — RipltUp #69, April 1983. | “I don’t care what the press or anyone j else say about me, as I keep them in a I job. Without me walking into the studio s there would be thousands of people without jobs.” TERRY HALL of FUN BOY THREE reckons it . ain’t what you do, it’s the way that you do it I — RipltUp #7O, May 1983. I