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Re: The Lost Single (?) (Really another PG digression)

From: Alex Ferguson <alex%cs.glasgow.ac.uk@NSFnet-Relay.AC.UK>
Date: Wed, 16 Aug 89 18:48:42 BST
Subject: Re: The Lost Single (?) (Really another PG digression)
Newsgroups: rec.music.gaffa
Organization: Comp Sci, Glasgow Univ, Scotland
References: <Added.kYsMKR600Ui3M2Yk4F@andrew.cmu.edu> <8908101516.AA11863@cunixd.cc.columbia.edu>
Reply-To: Alex Ferguson <alex%cs.glasgow.ac.uk@NSFnet-Relay.AC.UK>

Gary L Dare writes:
>When Sarah gave a free show at Toronto's Harbourfront at the end of
>June, she did one song a capella; I guess this was it!  Also, she and
>her band did a knockout version of Peter Gabriel's "Solsbury Hill",
>such a personal statement I didn't think anyone would attempt,

Didn't Tom Robinson cover Solsbury Hill live in some kind of TR/PG
joint venture? About the most pressing reason for not covering I can
think of is the difficulty of getting the average rock band to play
something in that time. By all accounts Tom's version was pretty forgettable.
-- 
Alex Ferguson.
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