November Q

What I learned in the November issue of Q, a British music magaine:

- $572 is how much former "INXS frontman Michael Hutchence had in his band account at the time of his death, according to his family."

- Remember Madness ("Our house, in the middle of our street" - that Madness)? They had 20 top 20 singles in a row in England. (I'm assuming that was in the 80s.)

- Film director Guy Ritchie (aka Mr. Madonna) said, "Do I listen to the wife's music? Do I have a choice? I'm not your typical Madonna fan, but I like to think she values my opinion - although I'm not sure she does."

- Nick Mason, drummer for Pink Floyd, holds the record for baking the world's biggest crumpet. The record was devised as a way of promoting the AeroSuperBatics, "Europe's only professional wing-walking team", a team that was sponsored by a margarine company. Mason was a part-owner of the private airfield that was the HQ for the AeroSuperBatics, and added flour and stirred the batter throughout the day. The batter was mixed onsite in 201 plastic buckets.

- The guitarist for Pavement has gone back to school to get his Urban Planning degree, the percussionist is in the horse-racing business, the bassist makes "food that gets photographed for cooking magazines", and the drummer "moved to Virginia and trained as a stone mason."

- Booker T & The MG's had a 1970 album called McLemore Avenue that was an instrumental track-by-track cover of Abbey Road.

- James Blunt, a musician and sudden superstar in England, was a captain in the British Army who led a column of 30,000 peace-keeping troops into Kosovo and later "was one of the Queen's mounted bodyguards and protected the Queen Mother's coffin while she lay in state in Westminster Abbey." He's 28.

- John Lennon's last breakfast was at Cafe La Fortuna, which is a cafe that my friend David and I always went to after going to an event at Lincoln Center.

Comments

[Brian]

Mmmmm, 201 plastic buckets of crumpet batter. Aaaggghhhh.....