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Give Salman the props for persistence against the odds, though: he got Bono to knock up some choons out of his dreadful fictional lyrics in his 'The ground beneath Her Feet' novel a few years back... sure there are other things like this lurking about, too, because loads of his generation of novelists/poets were earning a crust in ad agencies over the late 60s/70s: anyone know of any more?a giant steam-powered turntable in warwickshire plays six foot cement recordings of Prince Albert's speeches to the rejoicing populace
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</span>Originally posted by [bQuote[/b] ]Quote: from wayne on 3:33 pm on April 25, 2003
Give Salman the props for persistence against the odds, though: he got Bono to knock up some choons out of his dreadful fictional lyrics in  his 'The ground beneath Her Feet' novel a few years back... sure there are other things like this lurking about, too, because loads of his generation of novelists/poets were earning a crust in ad agencies over the late 60s/70s: anyone know of any more?
Well, there are all those movie directors: Alan Parker, Tony Scott, Ridley Scott, Hugh Hudson, David Puttnam...
Oh and Salman also wrote the tagline for the fresh cream ads: "Naughty, but nice".
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And also from Captain Random's House of Tat:
http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/ws/eBayISAPI.d...tem=2524088427
A picturedisc flexi of Robert Maxwell talking shite.
(sorry but I can't make the link blue and linky - no computer studies O level I'm afraid).Stop wasting your money on records and get a proper hobby.
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...& Fay Weldon is reputed to have done 'Go To Work on An Egg'. Can't remember who, but 'Drinka Pinta Milka Day' is supposed to by a literary grand fromage, too...a giant steam-powered turntable in warwickshire plays six foot cement recordings of Prince Albert's speeches to the rejoicing populace
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