On Tue, 4 Feb 1997 15:02:34 -0600, gause@altagroup.com wrote:
quoted 6 lines Ok, for all the SKAM trainspotters out there, take note...>Ok, for all the SKAM trainspotters out there, take note...
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>On the new U2 single, Discotheque, it reads...
>
> "'Discotheque' contains same from 'FANE', performed by Freeform
> and written by Simon Pike, courtesy of Skam Records."
yeah Howie B 'borrowed' a bit of Fane (he 'produced' the track for U2)
- when whichever major U2 are signed to's lawyers found out, they had
a heart attack and phoned andy skam up and started offering him wedges
of cash to clear it up as they had already pressed etc.
a nice little earner for simon. he mentioned it in some interview
somewhere months ago I thought it was old news.
you can check out more of howie b's 'work', (as daddy long legs) on
that pussy galore pussyfoot compilation - sound familiar Autechre
spotters?
g.