After some Jimmy Cauty solo work, here's Bill Drummond's first and only solo single - or at least it's b-sides.

Following a couple of years as an A&R man at WEA Records, working with acts like Strawberry Switchblade and encouraging the nascent Proclaimers (whose singing style Bill's would closely resemble), King Boy D himself approached head of Creation Records Alan McGee and asked to record and release a solo album. At the age of 33 1/3 (in autumn 1986) Drummond wanted to release one final definitive statement of rock'n'roll, and then go off to be a writer. Friend and admirer McGee encouraged him, and an album ("The Man", CRECD/LP14) was written and recorded over a swift ten-day period at the Village Hall in Newton Mearns, Galloway (the town Bill had lived in until the age of eight) with the help of various musicians, including some members of the Triffids, Voice of the Beehive, and later KLF collaborator Nick Coler.

The album will be uploaded soon, in its rare Japanese edition, but here we have the b-sides to the album's one single - "King of Joy", including the work of famous jazz musician Henry Lowther, and Bill Drummond's spoken word piece "The Manager's Speech" in both its 12" and 7" form.

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Henry Lowther photographed in 2007.

Tracklisting:

(1) The Manager's Speech (Edit)
(2) I Want That Girl (feat. Henry Lowther)
(3) The Manager's Speech (Full Version)

Link:

http://www.protectlinks.com/95268

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