Friday, 1st February 2013
Classic Rock No. 181
Def Leppard singer Joe Elliott was interviewed for the latest edition of Classic Rock magazine as part of their Lost Tracks feature and quotes are now available.
The magazine spoke to various musicians who have picked the '250 greatest tracks' that people should hear. Joe has chosen Glam rock classics.
The magazine has now published quotes about five of these tracks online.
Classic Rock - Joe Elliott Quotes
T. Rex - Sunken Rags
"Marc Bolan was a huge star, but Sunken Rags is a very obscure track. It was the B-side of the T.Rex hit Children Of The Revolution. Bolan had the best B-sides anybody has ever written: B-sides that should have been A-sides. And Sunken Rags is just a great, driving rock song. I haven’t a clue what the title of the song means, or the lyrics. But I loved that stream-of-consciousness thing that Bolan was doing in his lyrics. He picked words not because they meant something, but because they sounded good. And that’s what I did with Pour Some Sugar On Me."
Chicory Tip - Good Grief Christina
"Chicory Tip were the most ridiculous band in the world. They wore capes that would have made Rick Wakeman blush. But the man behind it all was Giorgio Moroder, who became a synthesiser god and went on to do the Cat People movie soundtrack with Bowie. Good Grief Christina was the third of Chicory Tip’s three hits: Son Of My Father went to No. 1; this only got to No. 17. It’s brilliant for all of the wrong reasons. It’s like really bad Abba – but before Abba. And what this kind of music eventually turned into was Nine Inch Nails. Yes, really."
Read all five quotes at - classicrockmagazine.com
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