Stock, Aitken and Waterman


You spin me right round is one of the best singles ever

Except that those who know Phil Harding will recall that it was his baby. Waterman did a lot of stuff: but took a lot of credit for stuff he didn’t have anything to do with, except at an executive level. His level of bullshit was highly amusing. And yes I did know him.
 
I've got a friend who knows Pete Waterman well. They are both into model railways.
Me and Mike we're into model trains in the late 70's...Pete Waterman was a natural match.
Except that those who know Phil Harding will recall that it was his baby. Waterman did a lot of stuff: but took a lot of credit for stuff he didn’t have anything to do with, except at an executive level. His level of bullshit was highly amusing. And yes I did know him.
Did you know Mike Stock too.
 
Mike although only 5' 7" was fearless and always spoke his mind. We were doing a gig in South London as a fill in for a band that cancelled. Walked in, it was a wall of leather and Brylcream, and I thought "Billy Joel, The Eagles and Steeley Dan are not going to go down well here" At the start of the second half a Gorilla came up to the stage and said "Do you do any Elvis" to which Mike replied "We don't do rubbish mate" To which the leather clad hoards omitted a loud Oooooh! End of night, packed up the gear and walked to the van which had half a dozen greasers leaning against it. It was one of those beam me up scotty moments. Mikes reaction "Get off the van and show some respect" They all did and we lived to play another day, but it wasn't to be the last scary encounter.
 
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Mike although only 5' 7" was fearless and always spoke his mind. We were doing a gig in South London as a fill in for a band that cancelled. Walked in, it was a wall of leather and Brylcream, and I thought "Billy Joel, The Eagles and Steeley Dan are not going to go down well here" At the start of the second half a Gorilla came up to the stage and said "Do you do any Elvis" to which Mike replied "We don't do rubbish mate" To which the leather clad hoards omitted a loud Oooooh! End of night, packed up the gear and walked to the van which had half a dozen greasers leaning against it. It was one of those beam me up scotty moments. Mikes reaction "Get off the van and show some respect" They all did and we lived to play another day, but it ewasn't to be the last scary encouter.
For some reason I read that in a Scottish accent
 
No mate it's not.
But reflected glory for their "achievements" purely because of nostalgia, is quite frankly wrong. Rewriting history of popular culture.
What they produced was predominantly awful. Were you posing around to Sonia or Sinita back in the day marra?
Probably not mate.
After a few years gap, I popped into see MIke and how excited he was to play me some of his "New style stuff"
I said I thought it was dire, but knew it would sell. Just to add that he wrote and sold his first song at age 14...it got to number 6 in the Italian top 20
 

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