The Rezillos

["Phil Clark" <phil-c@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Somone said,

>" The Boy Looked at Johnny" is hilarious. They really go after every sacred
>cow they (Tony Parsons and Julie Burchill) can get their hands on.
>It was written  by two teenagers (both interestingly enough became grumpy
>old farts)full of cheap speed  and contempt for the the fag end of
seventies
>rock. They even have a passage about speed being the perfect drug, that
>increases your IQ and makes you alert and ready to revolt.
>It also turned me on to the Rezillos, for which I am eternally grateful.
>rusty

The Rezillos - yeahhhhh GREAT band - they were one of the combos who made me
wanna play guitar myself, aged as I was at the time about 14. I remember
seeing them on "The Old Grey Whistle Test" (defunct BBC TV weekly
rock-show), introduced by Annie NIghtingale, doing the whole wraparound
shades and go-go dancing thing, singing perfectly crafted songs about flying
saucer attacks and the like. Track down their sole album "Can't Stand The
Rezillos", pop kids, and enjoy. They split in late 78 and mutated into the
Revillos, who IMHO never quite matched up to the original (still good tho).
Guitarist John Callis went on to commercial success in the early-80s
humorless synth-popsters The Human League. And I think singer Eugene
Reynolds had a shop in Edinburgh.

anyway as for Julie Burchill then Private Eye magazine has got it dead right
when they call her "Julie Bullshit".

luv
phil