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yello-digest          Tuesday, July 31 2001          Volume 02 : Number 223




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Date: Sat, 21 Jul 2001 10:07:30 -0700
From: [e-mail]
Subject: (yello) WTB: HOY - The Updates, HOY: Plutone: Oh Yeah

Been searching for these two bits for too long. Anyone got them, wanna part
with 'em, or know of a /solid, in-stock/ reference of where I can get them?

Yello: Hands on Yello - The Updates [2xCD / 1995 / GE / Urban/Motor Music
GmbH / 527728-2]

Yello: Plutone's Hands On Yello - Oh Yeah [CDM / 1995 / GE / Urban/Motor
Music/Polygram / 577089-2

I never knew... how much I cared... until I found out how freaking limited
these disks are [were].... <smirk>



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Date: Tue, 31 Jul 2001 12:40:31 +0400 (MSD)
From: Adelka Sundaymaniac <[e-mail]>
Subject: (yello) interesting old article

Hi there,

Here is old (1997) article I found recently. I think it's interesting.
Anyone knows more about these songs mentioned in this interview?

Adelka

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"Once upon a time there were two little sisters. They were twins. On their 8th
birthday one of them got many wonderful things -- beautiful dolls, sweets,
lovely toys... And all her sister got was a little ball. "Look, our Mum and Dad
gave me so many wonderful presents! You should be envious of me", the first
girl boasted. "So what?", said her sister, "BUT I DON'T HAVE CANCER OF THE
LUNGS!"

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The Sun, Friday May 30th 1997.

SUICIDE ROCKER BILLY'S LOST GEMS HELD IN SWISS BANK VAULT.

Tribute .... Billy's new album is finally to be released.

Suicide rocker Billy MacKenzie has left behind a secret legacy of two
completely new albums.

The former star of The Associates, who shot to fame in the 1980's with hits
including Party Fears Two and Love Hangover, killed himself with a drug
overdose in January. His younger brother Jimmy is currently working in a
London studio to release the last songs the star recorded. The Scots singer
had also recorded eight tracks with top Euro chart stars Yello, which are
presently locked away in a vault in Switzerland.

TRACKS.

Yello founder Boris Blank, 43, teamed up with his showbiz pal almost a
decade ago to make an album together. However, due to work commitments, the
pair never saw their songs make it to the shops. Just days before his death,
Billy and Boris even discussed releasing the new tracks.

Now that's set to become a reality. Boris explained :

I played on and produced about eight tracks together with Billy. No one has
ever heard these songs. I'm still thinking of Billy every day and I'm still
sad and shocked. It was a very dark beginning to the year and I still can't
bring myself to actually play these songs that we made. I'm not ready to
start working on these tracks. I've got them locked up in a safe at my bank,
but I can't bring myself to even open it.

KEEN.

Some of the songs are about nine years old - but they are fantastic. His
voice is just so natural, beautiful and timeless.

He added:

I was talking to him on the phone shortly before he died. He was telling me
how happy he was and how keen he was to get working on our songs again and
also all the new stuff he was doing. I was saying how I could remix our
tracks to bring them up to date with the 1990's and we promised to get to
work on them soon. That was the last phone call we had together. We'd been
good friends for so many years, but now the only comfort I can take is that
I know I'll be working with him in spirit in the studio.

At present I have no solid plans to release the songs. But I know his fans
will be very eager to hear the new tracks. They really are lovely.

He wrote one called Norma Jean which of course, is about Marilyn Monroe.
It's a kind of ballard about her life and it's amazing.

I suppose it's tragic that he wrote a song about someone whose life was cut
tragically short, the same way his life turned out to be.

But I have to wait until I'm feeling in a good shape emotionally to remix
these tracks. If I played them now I'd just break down and cry.

Boris - who has had chart success around the world with the hits The Race
and Of Course I'm Lying - believes that their work would have relaunched
Billy's career. He said :

I did the music on all these tracks and Billy wrote all the lyrics.

This stuff would have been a breakthrough for Billy in my opinion. It would
have shown him in a completely different light from before.

I didn't understand it when he killed himself. I attended his memorial in
London in a real daze.

People explained to me more about his background. But no one thought he was
so depressed, no one suspected a thing.

Billy killed himself after becoming depressed by the death of his mum. Boris
said:

It's so hard to take it in especially when things were just starting to take
off for him.

MONEY.

I feel I have to release this album for Billy. But I refuse to take a penny
from it. I don't want any money so I'll come to some arrangement with his
family.

Last night the MacKenzie family welcomed Boris's revelations. Billy's dad
James, 60, said:

Boris should release these tracks immediately. Maybe he doesn't want to look
like he's cashing in on Billy's death. But we all know Boris and he's a love
ly man and we know he'd never do anything like that.

The fans would want to hear these songs and I know for a fact that Billy
would like them to be released. I didn't imagine Boris would want a penny
from them, which is some good news for Billy's brothers and sisters, as
they'll get something out of it which they deserve. But no one would be
worried about the money.

It's just nice to know there were other songs out there we didn't know
about.

James added :

The only one I've heard from this new collection was the Norma Jean song.
It's beautiful and Billy was very proud of it and played it to me once.

He actually got more mellow as he got older.

But I didn't even know he had done so many other. Boris is loved by the
whole family and sent a lovely wreath to Billy's funeral.

I 'd like to thank him myself but he's never been able to understand my
thick accent.

Billy has a new album coming out soon - but these extra songs have come as a
real bonus to everyone.






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