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Track 0288: PROSTITUTION (Hodgson) 3:58 (BLITZKRIEG BOP) (13th December 1978)
Musicians: John Hodgson – lead vocals, synthesizer, Mickey Dunne – guitar, backing vocals, Graeme Moses – bass guitar, Alan Cornforth – drums, backing vocals.
Recorded: The Nashville, London (live performance) mono cassette recorder
Towards the end of September Mick Hylton suddenly announced he was leaving. The rest of us still had faith but he clearly saw the writing on the wall. In hindsight we should have possibly called it a day at that point, but instead we drafted in Graeme Moses (stage name: Kid Moses), who followed Mickey Dunne from The Lice.
Our ex-manager Larry came back to us and said that several record companies were interested including RCA and Satril. We arranged for them to see us play at The Nashville, but we found out later that no one turned up from the record companies and as a consequence Larry waved goodbye again.
The recording from the Nashville is poor, but as it was the only gig recorded in London, and also the only gig of the 77-79 era featuring Graeme Moses, I had to include several songs from the set.
I have included “Prostitution” because it includes an added section in the middle where I play some synth. Whenever the opportunity arose we added more keyboards to the songs, and were moving away from the pure punk sound of 1977.

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Fast Cakes aka John Hodgson presents his Fast Cakes releases, plus his older releases with other bands, and also the massive "Legend & Lunacy" a 50th Anniversary box set of 1261 tracks celebrating 50 years of songwriting and music making with a variety of bands including Blitzkrieg Bop, Basczax & Makaton Chat amongst others. From pop tunes to indie anthems, all human life is here. ... more

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