While I’m on the subject of accomplished corporate music monsters, this 10-year-old review of Def Leppard by Andrew Mueller is entertaining, if perhaps a little long and squintily typeset to be read from the screen all in one go. It’s clear that, like me, Mr Mueller can’t help but admire the band—for all their over-produced faults. [I picked this one up via Norm’s quoting of another of the author’s pieces on a more serious matter.]
Elsewhere on Mueller’s site it’s also interesting to read that, despite admitting to being a fan of the works of Naomi Klein and having written an album called Hail To The Thief, Radiohead’s lead singer, Thom Yorke, did originally support [link dead—try here instead] military action in Iraq.
Excellent, I look forward to Radiohead’s next albums focusing on Iran and North Korea, “Too cool for theocats ” and “It’s a Jong way to the tipping-point”. I hear they will be issuing a special edition 7 inch purple flexi-disc soon called “Mugged by Mugabe”, featuring Christopher Hitchens on the Sunni triangle and Michael Jackson on parole.