![]() ![]() What did those early audiences make of the 13-year-old you singing show tunes? Although it got to a point where I felt: ‘What do I need to do to not have beer spilled over me and the piano?’ It was a great training ground, and the gays taught me a lot about being present with an audience.” ![]() Once you’ve had to deal with hecklers in bars on a nightly basis, you see what works for different audiences and have more than one approach in your toolbox. This is where I think going from your room as an influencer onto the big stage means there are some tools you don’t gain. gay bars from the age of 13 would have been good training for rendering you immune to any shade – or heckling – that’s thrown your way? Some things that happened in the ‘90s should stay in the ‘90s! ” As they say in The Odd Couple: ‘You should never assume – because you make an ass out of u and me’. I think he assumed I had a privileged life. doesn’t know me or my life, or what I’ve been through. Live performance can really bring out the devil horns! It’s a true story, but it goes back a long way to 1992, and it was a passing comment. “ Oh dear! Luckily, Mancunians usually have a good sense of humour. You sang: ‘You ain’t ever gonna burn my heart out, Morrissey’ after telling a story about how you once met Moz backstage at a TV show and praised him with: ‘Hey man, really great songs’, only for him to sneer: ‘What the fuck do you know?’ I dropped the Phil Collins name so they wouldn’t pump my stomach!”ģ When you covered Oasis’ ‘Don’t Look Back in Anger’ live in Manchester in 2005, what did you alter the lyrics to? They asked me what I did, and I told them I was a singer and had been on a record with Phil Collins. “They were threatening to pump my stomach! My friend and I had come from Amsterdam and I didn’t have any marijuana on me, but my friend had some hidden in the heel of her boot. Two ‘Y Kant Tori Read’ tracks appeared as B-sides to a Phil Collins ‘ A Groovy Kind of Love’ sampler, which apparently helped you escape jail when you were detained in Germany in the early ‘90s because the border guards were fans of the Genesis drummer… But, to liven things up, I got my boyfriend at the time’s artist mother to do some illustrations.” A stylist later said to me: ‘What were you thinking at the time?!’ Well, exactly! I didn’t call a professional stylist, and clearly I should have! There was no money for another photoshoot, although honestly, I should have just gotten a Polaroid done. “Nice! I have to raise my hand and say I’m guilty of the album art. “Um – a dragon, and a person with a sword?” Ring My Bell has been covered by several artists, including Blood Sisters, Collette, and Tori Amos.1 What two illustrations appear on the cover of your pre-solo synthpop band Y Kant Tori Read’s 1988 self-titled album? Since Anita Ward was an unknown artist with only one hit song, the Blondie connection is probably a type of confabulation.Īnita Ward recorded two other albums, Sweet Surrender, also in 1979, and Wherever There’s Love in 1989. Hanging on the Telephone was released one year prior and the iconic Call Me was released only one year later, in 1980. However, there is something about the vocal styling of the chorus, “you can ring my bell, ring my bell” that calls Debra Harry to mind and I’m not surprised that people think it was a Blondie song.Īnother factor may be the two ‘telephone’ oriented songs that Blondie actually recorded. She certainly was nothing like the sultry Debra Harry.Ī close listen should reveal, of course, that Ward is not Harry, not to mention the music, which is nothing like the sort of arrangement that Blondie would have used. What’s more, she had never even stepped foot in a disco. She described herself as a naive and shy little church girl. The album, Songs of Love, sold very well, though.Īs for being a disco queen, Ward was nothing of the sort. She scored a minor hit later the same year with Don’t Drop My Love, which peaked at number 87. 1 on the Billboard Hot 100 on June 16, 1979, and spending 18 weeks on the chart. Released in 1979, the song was a smash hit, reaching no. He chose Ring My Bell since Stacy Lattisaw had signed to another label. However, after recording a number of slower songs, Knight realized they needed an up-tempo tune. The tune was an afterthought for Ward and was not originally intended to be recorded. He said of the song: “It was then a teeny-bopper type of song, about kids talking on the telephone.” Knight agreed to cut some records with her. Frederick Knight, songwriter, producer, and president of Juana Records discovered her when her manager sent him some photos, demos, and other materials. Even so, the lyrics are merely suggestive and not overtly sexual as the producer wanted to protect Anita Ward’s clean-cut Christian image. It was modified for Ward to sound more adult. The song was originally more suited for a young girl to sing. ![]()
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