The John Lewis advert bugged me so much I thought I should create something monstrous that made it look like the feeble streak of horsepiss that it is. I'm not sure I managed that, but I knocked it out in three hours and laughed like an idiot in a room on my own for most of those three hours. Merry Xmas everyone..
Although it doesn't explicitly say so in the list of songs, Kirsty Young said in the programme (which can be listened to again via the website) that when they counted up the requests of listeners' desert island discs, "There Is A Light.." came out top of all the 80's songs asked for.
Si Wolstencroft was the drummer in The Patrol, the band that predates The Stone Roses and featured Ian Brown and John Squire and he went to school with the pair of them. He was also the first drummer in The Smiths and then spent ten years in The Fall before linking back with Ian Brown for some of his solo tracks… he also famously played with Brown and Squire during the soundcheck for the recent legendary Justice Tonight appearence at Manchester Ritz.
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