Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site pyuxd.UUCP Path: utzoo!linus!philabs!cmcl2!seismo!harvard!talcott!panda!genrad!decvax!harpo!whuxlm!whuxl!houxm!mhuxt!mhuxr!ulysses!gamma!pyuxww!pyuxd!rlr From: rlr@pyuxd.UUCP (Rich Rosen) Newsgroups: net.music Subject: Re: SeX PisTolS, B-52's, John Lennon, ELO, Prince, disco Message-ID: <1521@pyuxd.UUCP> Date: Sat, 17-Aug-85 07:10:13 EDT Article-I.D.: pyuxd.1521 Posted: Sat Aug 17 07:10:13 1985 Date-Received: Fri, 23-Aug-85 07:05:28 EDT References: <4998@mit-eddie.UUCP> Organization: Whatever we're calling ourselves this week Lines: 14 > and yes, the B-52's while not disco certainly had lots of fun and > had a role in bringing John Lennon out of mothballsand into the public eye. > The story is that he was sitting in a twostory cafe and heard "Rock Lobster" > playing downstairs and thought it was some of Yoko's old stuff. When the > waitress informed him it was new music from the B-52's he decided to start > writing again. In fact, in Double Fantasy you can hear disco influences > though not too obnoxious.Lennon's favorite group circa 1979 was ELO and > while I'm not a great fan, they were certainly disco influenced. Lennon liked ELO because in their early days, he felt they were carrying the "I Am The Walrus" era of Beatles music to new extremes. -- "There! I've run rings 'round you logically!" "Oh, intercourse the penguin!" Rich Rosen ihnp4!pyuxd!rlr