TOBY
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Posted: June 02 2006, 14:04 |
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Is that true? I'm very happily surprised. Its scandalous that Mike and TB NEVER get a mention in any of these 'Top 100' lists even in the more high brow mainstream music press like Mojo or Q. So the NME putting him in at 39 is pretty damm good I would say.
Actually in 1989 NME writer Steven Wells (an NME writer known at the time for his cutting savagery) did write a fantastic piece on Mike. I think Mike went out of his way to convince NME readers that he wasn't the boring old hippy they thought he was. He revealed, amongst other things, that he once punched Richard Branson for making a move in his (then) girlfriend, that he was addicted to sex and that, somewhat bizarrely, he once took a shotgun to a rare species of duck that had innocently landed in his garden.
Steven Wells also took delight in the fact that Mike thought his two peers Jean-Michel Jarre and Vangelis were both 'utter shite' (his words exactly, I remember because this amused me no end) Mike also revealed that he hated Elvis Costello, Gary Newman and that he had never heard of Morrisey. Infact the title of the article was 'Morrisey? Who's He?
So the upshot of all this was that Steven Wells was most impressed by the fact that Mike wasn't the boring old fart he was lead to believe and came away really liking him.
It may also be of interest to you all that not long after the article came out the NME gave Amarok an absolutely amazing review saying it was Mike's best ever record and devoting quite a large space to reviewing it.
So Mike's relationship with the NME hasn't always been bad
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