Re: Article on Lord Sutch

[Richard Mackey <rmackey@xxxxxxxxx>]

At 09:36 17/06/99 -0700, Scott Swanson wrote:
>
>Here's a U.K. newspaper article on Screaming Lord Sutch...
>

And here's a bit more, taken from the book "Rock family trees" by Pete
Frame (a must have for anyone interested in the history of pop music)...

"I first met Sutch around the end of the teddy boy era. He got his name
because one of his party pieces was running up and down the underground
trains screaming! When he and his mates used to go out on Saturday nights
in the 50s he used to be the life and soul of the party...and he always had
on this top hat, which made him look a bit like a lord, by a stretch of the
imagination. Another "screaming" link was that he used to idolise Screaming
Jay Hawkins. Within months of the first Savages splitting up, Sutch became
famous; he'd become a hit at the 2Is coffee bar, and there were centre
spreads in the Sunday papers - showing him rampaging around with these
buffalo horns on his head!"
 - Carlo Little, drummer in The Savages

Embellishing his earlier image as "something between a Viking chieftain and
the wild man of Borneo", Sutch established himself as the king of macabre
horror-rock. The papers were soon full of stories of chicks who had left
home in the hope of marrying him - leaving distraught parents foaming at
the mouth. By early 63, there was a slew of Sutch imitators: the Ghouls,
Frankenstein and the monsters, The Grave Robbers etc. What really shot
Sutch into the public eye was his attempt to become an MP in the Stratford
& South Warwickshire constituency in summer 1963. Representing the National
teenage Party, he campaigned for votes at 18 and for commercial radio.
Everybody laughed at the time, but within years both issues became reality.
He only polled 209 votes but he was on the front page of every newspaper
(including The Times) for about three or four weeks running. Vote for the
ghoul: he's no fool" was his campaign cry.

Mandatory Zep query: does anyone know which, if any, of Sutch's singles
Jimmy Page played on?
Richard
Sadly neglected LP of the month:
One by Tim Hardin