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Giles Booth

Record Mirror, Sept 77

Steve Gibbs writes: Had a walk through your site and realised you appear to be missing my very own news story about the album's imminent release from Record Mirror! I was working as a manager for Virgin Retail at the time, moonlighting as a writer…

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Giles Booth

Peter Cook by Harry Thompson

Peter Cook and the Genesis of Consequences a review of Harry Thompson's biography of Peter Cook, published 1997 by Hodder and Stoughton in the UK. ISBN 0 340 64968 2 The British humourist Peter Cook was born in Torquay on 17th November 1937. When he…

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Giles Booth

Tragically I Was an Only Twin

Parallels with Consequences in Peter Cook's early work I was lucky enough to get William Cook's compendium of Cookery Tragically I Was an Only Twin for Christmas 2002 - I've just finished mining it for references to or parallels with Consequences and I found a fair few outlined below.

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Giles Booth

Sounds, 1977

15th October 1977 There can be few people in the country who don't know by now that 'Consequences' is a triple-album by these two ex-10cc chappies who left the band to develop a device called the Gizmo, and that the album is more or less…

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Giles Booth

NME, 1977

New Musical Express (NME), 29th October 1977 Back Again! By Popular Demand! Your Fave And Ours! THE END OF THE WORLD Get your eleven quids ready, kids - let's see the colour of your artistic appreciation! What you get us a beautiful black box with…

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