sleevenotes, etc with sweary quote

[steve]

Cheers, Mark! Such an excellent story I had to try and track down the cover. Happily, a pic of the back sleeve was up at Discogs:

http://www.discogs.com/viewimages?release=2162186

After multiple zoomings in, the relevant bits of Cliff White's sleevenotes seem as follows (very much in line with Mark's quoted version from memory):


You'll never know how close you came to being briefed about the late lamented Jimmy Reed by A Famous Person. Right here, on this very sleeve. TWICE.

Alas, as is often the case with Famous People, both of them were unavoidably detained at the 11th hour. So you'll just have to make do with a few extracts from my 1964 diary....

[cut diary extracts and several paragraphs]

... A last thought. I owe Jimmy, or you, or myself, at least a quote from one of those Famous People I mentioned at the beginning. This one's not as famous as the other one but who's counting. Come in, John Peel, a man who has always championed and played Jimmy Reed and therefore obviously a man of impeccable taste whose word should be hearkened unto. "The thing I've always liked about Jimmy's records, Cliff, is it's all such great music to fuck to."

True, John, true. But will they stock it in WH Smith's?

(end quote)


Among other aspects, like the description of Peel as "a man of impeccable taste whose word should be hearkened unto."

Think I need to sort out some kind of extra section on the wiki sleevenotes page to add this in (Sleevenotes Peel failed to deliver?).

Cheers,

SW

--- In peel@yahoogroups.com, "Mark" <markonnewsgroups@...> wrote:
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> I could have sworn I'd kept my old copy of Charly Records' Jimmy Reed compilation "Upside Your Head", but it's not with the others so I'll have to quote from memory.  
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> Anyway: not quite what you were looking for, but on the back of the sleeve Cliff White mentioned that he had failed to commission sleevenotes from a couple of Famous People, one of whom was revealed to be John Peel.  John Peel's only surviving contribution is this quote: "The thing I've always liked about Jimmy Reed's music, Cliff, is that it's such great music to fuck to."
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