Just posted a track from John Cooper Clarke’s Snap Crackle and Bop on the Spoken word thread. On it JCC is backed by the Invisible Girls, an ad hoc group Hannett put together as a backing band for various artists including Pauline Murray.
His right hand man, keyboard player Steve Hopkins explains:
“The idea was to assemble a roster of key instrumental players, produce tracks to be fronted by different singers/stars – and get some hits!”
Manchester’s answer to Chic?
I love the albums the Girls played on but hadn’t realised that they’d also done a single with Nico. It’s powerful stuff but somehow I suspect the German chanteuse was not invited along to perform it on TOTP.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n8W-hw7ySuk
