From: Phil Obbard <pobbard@yahoo.com>
Subject: Re: (TV) 'Don't Die' question?
To: "tv@obbard.com" <tv@obbard.com>
Date: Sunday, July 15, 2012, 2:19 PM
I'll have to check the credits when I
am home, but I believe the 3 release
Neon Boys tracks (all sung by Hell) are credited lyrics to
Hell, music to
Hell/Verlaine, but I could be wrong.
There is a lot of looseness in credits
back then; if Verlaine really did co-write the music for
"High Heeled Wheels",
then he deserved a credit for "You Gotta Lose" that I am
sure he does not get.
And who can forget how many tracks the Heartbreakers
"borrowed" from Hell once
he left, or added their names to the credits? "Chinese
Rocks" had his name
stripped from the credits, "Love Comes in Spurts" was given
new lyrics to
become "One Track Mind", etc...
--Phil
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From: postitnote <postitnote@sbcglobal.net>
To: tv@obbard.com
Sent: Sunday,
July 15, 2012 2:11 AM
Subject: Re: (TV) 'Don't Die' question?
Okay, thanks.
I've got that cleared up now.
On, the Neon Boys though, even though some
songs are Richard Hell songs. wasn't all of the music
written by Tom though?
I mean, Richard sings some of the songs where the 'lyrics'
are his.
I also
remember an interview w/ Tom and I believe it was British
(an early one) and
he was asked about Hell's music outside of Television/Neon
Boys. Tom said
sthg like Hell borrowed some of his music, as he could hear
it in some of the
songs. Tom said that he didn't really mind
though. I'm sorry that I don't
remember which interview that was as I read that awhile back
and my memory
sucks.
I'm not putting down Richard as he's def a talented guy.
Is this
valid or am I off-base?
--- On Sat, 7/14/12, Phil Obbard <pobbard@yahoo.com>
wrote:
> From: Phil Obbard <pobbard@yahoo.com>
> Subject: Re: (TV) 'Don't
Die' question?
> To: "tv@obbard.com"
<tv@obbard.com>
> Date: Saturday, July
14, 2012, 5:36 PM
> It's a Voidoids demo v. 1979. It
> appears, along with a
similar demo of "Time",
> on the same release from Shake (and later
Overground) that
> gave us the only
> Neon Boys material we've heard to date.
>
> So "Time" and "Don't Die" have
> nothing do to with Television, other
than being Richard Hell
> solo material.
> More info on Keith's
> site:
http://www.thewonder.co.uk/facts/bandrels.htm#Singles
>
>
> --Phil
>
________________________________
> From: postitnote
<postitnote@sbcglobal.net>
> To: tv@obbard.com
> Sent: Saturday, July 14,
2012 8:17 PM
> Subject: Re: (TV)
> 'Don't Die' question?
>
> I wonder if
anyone could clear this up for me? There
> is the song attributed to the Neon
Boys called 'Don't Die'
> (great song).
>
> I
> have this song listed as a
Neon Boys song but I noticed in
> some comments that
> people are saying that
this recording is actually a demo
> played by Richard
> Hell and the Voidoids
for Sire Records. I still will
> presume that it was
> actually written by
Tom and the lyrics were done by Hell
> (they made a great
> team). But so the
recording is actually Richard and
> the Voidoids playing it,
> instead of the
Neon Boys? Is that true?
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