Best al*** that really shouldn’t be very good

Continuing the movie theme, the first and only album by Thunderclap Newman was also called Hollywood. Produced by Pete Townshend, featuring John Speedy Keene on drums and vocals, and a fourteen year old Jimmy McCulloch on guitar, some of it wasn't so hot, but some o0f it was awesome. I had it on vynal, not even sure it has ever been released on CD

I have Hollywood Dream on CD, it has lots of bonus tracks. It is an excellent album John Speedy Keene died recently, he wrote Armenia City In The Sky for The Who. He was very talented.

1. Something in the Air
2. Hollywood
3. The Reason
4. Open the Door Homer
5. Look around
6. Accidents
7. Wild country
8. When I think
9. Old Cornmill
10. I don't know
11. Hollywood dream (instrumental)
12. Hollywood No. 2
13. Something in the air (single version)
14. Wilhemina
15. Accidents (single version)
16. I see it all
17. The reason (single version)
18. Stormy Petrel



You can still get it - it's about £6 and woth every penny. Accidents is superb.

I think Thunderclap Newman were

Andy "Thunderclap" Newman - keyboards
Jimmy McCulloch - guitar
John "Speedy" Keene - vocals
Jim Avery - bass
Jack McCulloch - drums

Jim Avery was in The Attack, what great band they were, and, of course, with Terry Stamp was a founder member of the magnificent Third World War. Third World War sounded a lot like the Clash, or I should say the Clash sounded a lot like Third World War.

Speedy produced Johnny Thunders album LAMF and the first Motorhead elpee.

Wow, thanks for that ROTF, I will get onto it straight away.