Comic related on vinyl or records or CD's

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The Moose mentioned Grimly Fiendish/Feendish...http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OKdWvau_1p8
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Must admit, my taste at the time ran more to "Eloise"
I started to say something sensible but my parents took over my brain!
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felneymike wrote:There was also a Viz "Billy The Fish" record which infamously sold one copy.
I remember DJ Martin Kelner playing this on his late-night show, and desperately wanting a copy, even though I was too young to buy Viz. By the time I was old enough (read: found a shop willing to sell it to me at 16) they'd stopped selling it. Bet it goes for a fair bit on Ebay.
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There is, apparently, a Prodigy off-shoot called Janus Stark.
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Just came across this Record cover.
From 1980
Name of the band is On The Air tracks are Ready For Action/Crazy And Youth
Never heard of them.
Looks like they read the Beano.

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The bassist, Tony Butler and drummer, Mark Brzezicki went on to be members of Big Country.
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I read something on the 26 Pigs website about The Damned having a song about Melody Lee, the character from Bunty (Melody Lee, A Dancer She'll Be was the story's title!). I think they may have also had a song about the Four Marys. Apparently Captain Sensible was a bit of a Bunty fan.
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Lord Snooty and his pals get a mention in The Bonzo's The Intro and The Outro

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8DUEAG5eO6c
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helsbels wrote:I read something on the 26 Pigs website about The Damned having a song about Melody Lee, the character from Bunty (Melody Lee, A Dancer She'll Be was the story's title!). I think they may have also had a song about the Four Marys. Apparently Captain Sensible was a bit of a Bunty fan.
There is indeed such a song, on their great Machine Gun Etiquette LP. To quote the good Captain Sensible himself, taken from the 26 Pigs Bunty site:

"I remember some of the stories well, of course the 'Four Marys' and 'Bella' - but the one I liked best was 'Melody Lee - a dancer she'll be!'... so much so that The Damned recorded a song of that name which is still one of our fan's favourites live. In fact we are going to play it on our UK tour which starts in a few days (dates and other info always here www.myspace.com/thecaptainsensible)

When this character was dropped, myself and a ragbag collection of punks demonstrated outside Thompsons in Fleet St. and later attended a Sid Vicious show in Camden. We walked into his dressing room with the banners and as we propped them up in the corner of the room Nancy Spungen (who he allegedly killed later on in their drug addled relationship) took a look at them and remarked 'Who is Melody Lee Sid?'.

Once again I found this irresistible as the subject matter for a song and there, on my A+M album 'Women and Captains First' amongst my hits 'Happy Talk' and 'Wot' is the song 'Who is Melody Lee Sid?'.

What a great comic Bunty was....

Oh, I forgot:

There Are More Snakes Than Ladders / The Four Mary's GoGo Dance All Night At The Groovy Cellar (1984 A&M Capx7)

ANOTHER Bunty related song of mine! - Captain Sensible"
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The rock band W.A.S.P. did a cover of The Who's The Real Me, with a cover drawn by one of the Viz artists. The Spin Doctor's did a song called Jimmy Olsen's Blues, & their album was A Pocketful of Kryptonite. Black Lace & Laurie Anderson both did songs called Superman. Obviously, Prince did Batdance. Simon & Garfunkel used to be known as Tom & Jerry. Ash did a song called Kung Fu, which amongst others, mentions Mr Miyagi, the X-Men, Jackie Chan, & Scooby Doo (although not all of those started off as comic characters, most of them have have had comics based on them).
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