From: owner-avalon-digest@smoe.org (avalon-digest) To: avalon-digest@smoe.org Subject: avalon-digest V15 #1070 Reply-To: avalon@smoe.org Sender: owner-avalon-digest@smoe.org Errors-To: owner-avalon-digest@smoe.org Precedence: bulk avalon-digest Friday, June 24 2016 Volume 15 : Number 1070 Today's Subjects: ----------------- RE: [AVALON] The Bride Stripped Bare; Chris Difford [Andrew Shearer Subject: RE: [AVALON] The Bride Stripped Bare; Chris Difford Sunday, I had quite a long car drive by myself and I had TBSB on repeat. It occurred to me (particularly with Can't Let Go) what a blast it must have been for BF to be living in LA (was he actually in Hollywood?) when you consider the influence of film on him. The boy did good basically, though by all accounts it wasn't what he had hoped for. Last night I was lucky enough to be selected (just by name - nothing to do with talent etc) to attend a lyric writing masterclass with Chris Difford from Squeeze up at The Guardian offices. Really it didn't have much to do with lyric-writing (apart from some of the questions in the Q&A) and more a "life story" type gig but it was entertaining nevertheless and quite a treat to hear Cool For Cats, Up The Junction and Take Me I'm Yours played to about 100 of us in a small conference room. Anyway, in the Q&A I asked in what way did he help BF back in the 90s/ 2000s. Basically he was employed (in addition to being a manager at some point) as a "lyric doctor" (on a weekly wage) and was allowed to go through filing cabinets of bits and pieces and to see what he could make of them. I got the impression there was some disappointment that he wasn't ever credited with the songs that he worked on and that the arrangement didn't end well. He says we'll have to buy his autobiography next year to find out why etc. He did say however he did discover some beautiful gems in his searches. Thought you'd be interested. Hope all is well with you all. :) Andrew www.andrewshearer.com Twitter & Facebook: @shearermusic ___________________________________________________________________________ To unsubscribe, mail majordomo@smoe.org with: unsubscribe avalon ------------------------------ End of avalon-digest V15 #1070 ****************************** ======================================================================== For further info, mail majordomo@smoe.org with: info avalon-digest