Nice guy. Did what he wanted, owned some success, enjoyed himself, Miles ahead of his time. If you released LMF1-11 today, and it would still somehow be 20 years ahead of it's time, You cant say that about many musicians / tracks these days.
I'm thinking about SSS since 1986... with all the great ideas, the main error was (as Tony admitted himself) that they actually showed up for interviews, been photographed in daylight for teen magazines, cooperating with SAW.... why not keeping the nocturnal street gang image of the F1-11 clip alive for longer ? even eloquent interviews like this were just destroying the mystery. I mean if you're explaining the coup, it's not really a great coup anymore
James sat around for a long time having a careful think about what to do after Gen X had fallen apart, .... & he came up with t-h-i-s =( From the pop brilliance of 'Kiss Me Deadly' (1980) to the zany gossamer of SSS is a veritable artistic tragedy.
I always appreciated Tony's chutzpah but that was all SSS had going for them. Even Malcolm McLaren dissed these guys, famously quipping, "They looked great; they were wonderful in print. Their mistake was making a record."
That's what I found when I looked it up. But supposedly there was an article about a Russian gang, and they got their name from that. In an interview I heard, one of the members "I think it was Neal X" said he still had the article. So much information is still out there or lost which never made it to the internet. It could have been a small gang forgotten over time, or maybe they did get it wrong.
@@Lightblue2222 100% sure it is the Filipino prison gang. One member referred to a news article (in the New York Times I think). Most probably, he did not even bother to read the whole article (just the headline). He saw the word Sputnik and concluded it must be Russian. But no, it is 100% a Filipino prison gang.
They wanted Bowie to produce their album, Bowie declined. Then later covered them lol.. in an interview Sputnik were sour about Bowie because of this. Also Bowie is great but his Love Missile doesn't touch the original.
It was the era of Boy George, Pete Burns, the buzzcut version of Annie Lennox and many others, mostly musicians who'd grown up idolizing Bowie and the glam movement. Androgyny was just what you did back then.
Tony James what a character
I think what Tony did was brilliant. Aside from all the hype & whatever else,they really did play good rock n roll, i still love alot of their songs!!
I agree, mixing rockabilly with electro pop, really a unique sound, one that I still love to listen to!
OMG!!!! He looks sooooo amazing
Greatest band of the 80s.
Why is the host yellow?
Tony’s a good friend of mine.
Doesn’t look like that anymore. 😃
I know, lol. But I did see him with his Sputnik hat on twice in NYC, when he was in Sisters Of Mercy.
Nice guy. Did what he wanted, owned some success, enjoyed himself, Miles ahead of his time. If you released LMF1-11 today, and it would still somehow be 20 years ahead of it's time, You cant say that about many musicians / tracks these days.
I'm thinking about SSS since 1986... with all the great ideas, the main error was (as Tony admitted himself) that they actually showed up for interviews, been photographed in daylight for teen magazines, cooperating with SAW.... why not keeping the nocturnal street gang image of the F1-11 clip alive for longer ? even eloquent interviews like this were just destroying the mystery. I mean if you're explaining the coup, it's not really a great coup anymore
James sat around for a long time having a careful think about what to do after Gen X had fallen apart, .... & he came up with t-h-i-s =( From the pop brilliance of 'Kiss Me Deadly' (1980) to the zany gossamer of SSS is a veritable artistic tragedy.
I always appreciated Tony's chutzpah but that was all SSS had going for them. Even Malcolm McLaren dissed these guys, famously quipping, "They looked great; they were wonderful in print. Their mistake was making a record."
Sigue Sigue Sputnik is not a Russian street gang. It is a Filipino prison gang. Still exists today.
That's what I found when I looked it up. But supposedly there was an article about a Russian gang, and they got their name from that.
In an interview I heard, one of the members "I think it was Neal X" said he still had the article.
So much information is still out there or lost which never made it to the internet.
It could have been a small gang forgotten over time, or maybe they did get it wrong.
@@Lightblue2222 100% sure it is the Filipino prison gang. One member referred to a news article (in the New York Times I think). Most probably, he did not even bother to read the whole article (just the headline). He saw the word Sputnik and concluded it must be Russian. But no, it is 100% a Filipino prison gang.
Thd advert promised so much but they delivered so little. To mention Bowie in the same breath is blasphemous.
Yeah right. And Bowie covered 'Love Missile F1-11'...
They wanted Bowie to produce their album, Bowie declined. Then later covered them lol.. in an interview Sputnik were sour about Bowie because of this.
Also Bowie is great but his Love Missile doesn't touch the original.
No disrespect, I'm surprised he was so avante garde, and... cross dressing back then. Didn't disappear into obscurity then.
It was the era of Boy George, Pete Burns, the buzzcut version of Annie Lennox and many others, mostly musicians who'd grown up idolizing Bowie and the glam movement. Androgyny was just what you did back then.
The usual banker hair cut... He looks like a banker now
Not in my country
They tried way too hard..people didn’t buy it..... no musical substance....
Yeah. They shyte
Hahahahahaha . What a plonker ! Derek from accounts , forms a band .
Is it an impression or that morron is actually pride of this hairstyle
Looks good to me.. it's a rock star look, not a job desk job interview.