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I'm curious about why you are interested.

I imagine that you now live in Matham Grove and have found an old single of this band in the attic or have peeled some old wallpaper away and found an old flyer stuck to the wall.

Did they do a tour of the midlands supporting Creme Brulee in 1983?

Just a guess

Good luck with your search

My mate Steve Overbury used to manage Shadowfax and lived in the same house at that time. He's just had a book published called Guns, Cash and Rock & Roll - The Managers, about certain managers in the music biz. Worth buying as is a very good read. Check it out at www.gunscashandrocknroll.co.uk
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Hello,


I don't know if you're interested anymore, or if anyone will even read this, but Martin Harris is my father. I've got a few copies of that vinyl. I've only recently seen that one is being sold on ebay for a Buy it Now price of $333. How it got to America I'll never know. How did you get a hold of a copy?

*Bob*, I didn't know Franklins does barter, but I wouldn't give up my copy of the earliest known (so far) East Dulwich single.


Perhaps you could barter a Franklins Breakfast Song. You know the sort of thing:


We are Franklins, fresh and green

The finest breakfast you've ever seen...

At the time, around 1980, they were one of the best in south London - hard pop with a demon guitar person. We made the single and then they started dropping like flies. Phil the guitarist OD'd and died (body discovered by his dealer). Darryl the replacement jumped off an Old Kent Road tower block (body only identified months later when his mum recognised his tattoos). Tony the drummer got involved in a fight in the North Cross Road. Hammer on head with long term consequences. Kev the co-manager hanged himself. Now I hear that Martin the singer/writer is in very poor health.


It seems impossible to live a long and normal life in rock n roll.

steveo Wrote:

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> At the time, around 1980, they were one of the

> best in south London - hard pop with a demon

> guitar person. We made the single and then they

> started dropping like flies. Phil the guitarist

> OD'd and died (body discovered by his dealer).

> Darryl the replacement jumped off an Old Kent Road

> tower block (body only identified months later

> when his mum recognised his tattoos). Tony the

> drummer got involved in a fight in the North Cross

> Road. Hammer on head with long term consequences.

> Kev the co-manager hanged himself. Now I hear that

> Martin the singer/writer is in very poor health.

>

> It seems impossible to live a long and normal life

> in rock n roll.



Blimey. Write a book - I deamnd to know more (tu)

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macroban Wrote:

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> Perhaps you could drop the LP in on John at Dream

> Machine and he could make a bootleg CDR.

>

> I'd buy one.


xxxxxxx


Dream Machine? Is that still going somewhere? I still miss them every time I pass that basement next to the Palmerston :(

Shadowfax played in the uplands an cherry tree in the 1980s i hung out with yh and saw them plsy many times I knew them all well, so sad to hear do many have died, there was also another band at the same time in east dulwich they were all good friends Tony Redmond & Nigel hine who went on to form the tribute bank 'Think floyd' both too have sadly passed away,

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