boxstar
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 | | 03 Oct 2007 8:57 PM |
| So I have this friend and she told me this story/rumour. I dont believe it at all for a number of reasons which I'll get into but it nags at me. The problem is that she is normally a reasonable person and she is so insistent in a laid back, I know better type of way, that I'm left wondering if anone else has ever heard this story. The story is that The Police actually recorded Zenyatta Mondatta in Ireland and not in the Netherlands and that an Irish producer produced it, not Nigel Gray. This story fails for numerous reasons besides just the lack of evidence that it could be true. In particular, the Police DVD- Everybody Stares- actually has a scene that is ("apparently") in the studio during the recording Of Zenyatta and Nigel Gray is there while Sting and Andy are playing.
what i'm wondering is if anyone else has ever heard this story before.
Please dont shun me for this post I know its ridiculous, but then I hesitate as I write that so I'm looking for a bit of closure I suppose. So has anyone ever heard that story? Where would it have come from? Cheers, its been bugging me. I'm a huge Police fan and the idea that someone is claiming to have produced that album (but couldn't ever say so for contractual reasons) is plain crap!? | | | |
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Peejay
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| | 04 Oct 2007 12:37 AM |
| Might well be true boxstar. When the Police started to make it big in the early 80's they became tax exiles. Andy moved to rural Cork and Sting found a place in Donegal, though I don't think he was there for long. I don't know about Zneyetti Mon....whatever you call it, but at the very least Andy recorded alot of demos at his home studio during this time.
Incidently he hated Ireland. I just finished reading his auto-biog One Train Later (highly recommended by the way) and the way he describes early 80's Cork, he might as well be talking about Royston Vasey. | | | |
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starbelgrade
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| | 04 Oct 2007 1:55 AM |
| | Cork.. lovely county, but f**k me, the city is seriously grim... I wasn't there in the 80s, but was there around 1995 & it was even grimmer - can't say I blame Mr. Summers | | | |
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Quint
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| | 04 Oct 2007 5:48 AM |
| 'Early eighties Cork'. Now that would put a shudder down the spine of the most fearless of men. Is there anything worse? 'Early eighties Limerick?' Poor old Andy. He doesn't hate Ireland now, he's a regular visitor but Ryan Tubridy asked him about that piece in the book on 'Tubridy Tonight', it was funny watching him squirm.
Yes, Cork and Kerry region is probably one of the most beautiful places in the world but Cork city itself is a dump, went down for the first time about 6 years ago. Grim, indeed. | | | |
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Peejay
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| | 04 Oct 2007 5:53 AM |
| it was funny watching him squirm.
Well, he claimed that he'd regularly get up in the morning to be greeted with 'go back to england' daubed across the wall of his house. If this is true then he had nothing to squirm about. | | | |
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starbelgrade
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| | 04 Oct 2007 6:15 AM |
| Posted By Quint on 04 Oct 2007 5:48 AM
Yes, Cork and Kerry region is probably one of the most beautiful places in the world but Cork city itself is a dump, went down for the first time about 6 years ago. Grim, indeed.
Last time I was down there was in the summer.. the main street got a nice makeover, but christ.. the amount of trackies with bad ronnies made me think it WAS 1980! Plus I've never seen so many cop vans in one place on a Saturday night - there were around 10 of them on one street alone & by the number of fights that broke out at 2-3am, they were well needed. Grim indeed!
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Quint
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| | 04 Oct 2007 8:11 AM |
| Posted By Peejay on 04 Oct 2007 5:53 AM it was funny watching him squirm. Well, he claimed that he'd regularly get up in the morning to be greeted with 'go back to england' daubed across the wall of his house. If this is true then he had nothing to squirm about.
I agree. He had nothing to squirm about. He was just being honest. Tubridy asked him about that bit in the book because he seemed a bit perplexed that someone could come to Ireland and NOT like it. I mean, the cheek of him!
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boxstar
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| | 05 Oct 2007 10:29 AM |
| | So in summary, there aren't too many big police fans on this site and people either dont know or dont care much about where Zenyatta was recorded. However I am glad to say that we have reached a consensus on Cork city being a dump and that at least in the eighties was some racism there too. Good work everyone. | | | |
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