Date: Tue, 30 Apr 2019 15:16:48 -0400
From: David Garcia <garcia10303@gmail.com>
Subject: Re: Robert Stigwood -- The Musical (perhaps)
Did he research the Polydor "Spicks and Specks" thing sufficiently? It
seems so. I don't know enough of the event to evaluate it properly.
He does spend a lot of time discussing it. How much time?
My stand-alone Kindle device was having none of my wonky copy-and-paste
nonsense. So I put a battery in my Olympus voice recorder and read the
book's Polydor "Spicks and Specks" thing aloud. The audio comes close to 25
minutes.
Mind you, I included a bit of this and that for context. Paul McCartney
this, "Town of Tuxley Toymaker" that... But not a huge amount.
Honestly, I think just reading the Kindle book would be more enjoyable. If
only to see where, if anywhere, he gets it wrong. And to bemoan either the
lack of footnotes, or my not actually scrolling around to see if there is a
bibliography or endnotes.
Besides, the Olympus recording is a Windows Media File. I object to that on
philosophical grounds alone...
.
David Garcia, who particularly enjoyed the story of how Dick Ashby ended up
as their road manager in NYC
.
On Tue, Apr 30, 2019, 11:01 AM Joseph Brennan wrote:
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>
> On Mon, Apr 29, 2019 at 10:22 PM David Garcia
> wrote:
>
>> Nice though physical books of paper are, I'm already reading the first
>> paragraph of Chapter Ten, where the package from Sydney Australia lands in
>> the mailbox of NEMS.
>>
>>
> Test of the author's research: Does he know that people at Polydor England
> were already making a deal with Festival to release the Bee Gees in
> England, starting with the Spicks and Specks single? That had to be an
> influence on Stigwood. The Polydor people did not know the Gibb family had
> just come back to England.
>
> Joe Brennan
>
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