[kj] An Olive Branch for Olive-r

[Alexander Smith]

Eddie Grant -- the man who wrote "Police on My Back," "Electric  
Avenue" and -- let us not forget -- "Romancing the Stone" is a nasty  
piece of work? Hard to fathom.

Alex in NYC


On Mar 1, 2007, at 4:14 AM, fatpotanga wrote:


> Yeah, Youth repeated the ‘baby come back’ story at Transmission,  

> also saying that Eddie Grant is apparently a rather nasty piece of  

> work & has had people killed which convinced Geordie to have it  

> dropped.

> Interestingly, Youth referred to the whole tale as ‘Why we dropped  

> the lawsuit’ when of course it wasn’t youth era KJ.

> Still, dey is all KJ famma-lee innit?

>

>

>

>

> On 1/3/07 08:48, "Michael Head" wrote:

>

>> Yoof told me it was dropped when he pointed out that he knew the  

>> true origin of the song, rather than any altruistic move on the  

>> joke's part. (again, this is reputed to be 'Baby Come Back' by the  

>> Equals and NOT 'Life Goes On' by the Damned.)

>

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