Spinne
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Posted: June 25 2003, 16:57 |
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I knew of this affair around 1993 and I think I remember I saw in a record shop some CDs that stated the song Into Wonderland while others said Sally. Someone can confirm that Into The Wonderland title had appeared in the back cover of any edition while most of the editions that contain this song feature Sally at the back cover?
Well, I'll tell you a story  . When this album appeared the track list include the song Sally (2nd of the B side), this track is something like the central song of the album (one melody of Sally appears at Platinum-part 1 and another at the start of Punkaddidle). Soon after the album had reached the shops Richard Branson decided that the song must be taken out from the record, so it only appeared at the few first copies. The official version is that Branson didn't liked the song and asked Mike to substitue the song with another, that new song was Into Wonderland.
Into The Wonderland appeared from then on in all the editions of Platinum, including the remastered edition and (nearly?) always under the title Sally.
But there's another story behind this change. At that time Mike's girlfriend was Sally Cooper (and probably, if Molly hadn't been born she was going to be born soon). It is said that Richard Branson tried to win Sally's heart  , something that, as you can imagine, Mike didn't like very much. As a vengeance wrote this song in which he calls Branson a gorilla. Branson didn't like this neither and menace Mike to substite the song or he would retire the album from the record shops to demonstrate who was the boss.
For some reason at the track list remained Sally. That have made some people wonder if the track called Into The Wonderland wouldn't really be Sally. Another proof to that idea is that Wendy Roberts said that Mike called her to sing another song for the album and that he always refeared to that song as Sally. In my opinion this isn't enough because we all know that sometimes when you are recording a song this has a name that can be changed at the end (such as Nativity or A Bag Of Secrets). That only proves that Mike didn't have a title for the song at that moment  . Another explanation it would be that they could have planned to change the song but not the title (can someone confirm that the name Into The Wonderland has appeared in any copy?).
Sorry for having posted a so long post 
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