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Re: London Kid

Postby iefje » Sat Jun 17, 2017 10:56 pm

Didier wrote:The Croissy studio is Jean-Michel Jarre's own studio, west of Paris, not very far from where I live (not sure it's still there). But Hank didn't come there, he recorded his part in Australia.

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It must have been one of the first things he recorded in Australia, because he was living about a year and a half in Australia at the time. Does anyone know in which studio? All subsequent Shadows recordings were done in England at Brian Bennett's studios as well as Hank's solo albums "Into The Light" and "Heartbeat". The first full solo album, Hank recorded in Australia was "Hank Plays Cliff", apart from Cliff Richard and Mark Griffiths' contributions, which were recorded in England.
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Re: London Kid

Postby cockroach » Sat Jun 17, 2017 11:49 pm

Hank may have recorded his parts at SoundsWest in Perth, WA...I think he had some financial interest/ownership in the studio with Kevin Peek IIRC at that time.
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Re: London Kid

Postby iefje » Mon Jun 19, 2017 8:44 am

bgohara wrote:co-incidentally, Hank has actually answered the question of whether he mimed at the dock lands concert, this very week. He did a radio interview with Dominic King on Radio Kent (available on the iplayer) on Wed 14th, where he said the weather was so bad they had to mime for safety reasons.


Interesting, now that's proof alright! On the video of the concert, you would think Hank plays "London Kid" live, but "Fourth Rendez-Vous" is definitely mimed. You can hear him play quite a solo, but if you look at the video, it looks like he's only strumming.
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Re: London Kid

Postby shadowmaniacs » Wed Oct 25, 2017 10:29 am

Following all your discussions, that one is not mimed at all :



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Re: London Kid

Postby iefje » Wed Oct 25, 2017 11:12 pm

shadowmaniacs wrote:Following all your discussions, that one is not mimed at all :



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That's a very good cover, I've never heard it played by another artist! :thumbup:
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Re: London Kid

Postby shadowmaniacs » Sun Oct 29, 2017 8:48 am

Thanks for your nice comment Iefje.
I feel we were the first one to play it live.

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Re: London Kid

Postby iefje » Tue Apr 16, 2019 2:55 pm

The story goes that Jean-Michel and Hank composed "London Kid" over the telephone. However, Hank isn't mentioned as co-composer on the 7", 12" and CD-singles and the "Revolutions" album.
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