[kj] OT : Depp/Vanian redux

[gingoblin at easynet.co.uk]

I interviewed Scabies in 1986 and asked him about Five Foot One... he 
blamed Roman Jugg... there's no way he didn't know the Iggy song though... 
particularly as the Damned had actually played a cover of the Iggy 
version!!     Being a cheeky young scamp I asked if doing Five Foot One had 
anything to do with Vanian's height. "I wouldn't say that to him" was the 
reply!  And I didn't!

Dave in Edinburgh



At 11:13 13/12/2007 -0500, you wrote:

>Read an interview with Johnny Depp and Tim Burton in this week's NEW

>YORK Magazine and instantly thought of our Oliver. No props to poor

>Dave Vanian, but...

>

>NEW YORK: Johnny, you've called this your 'punk Sweeney'

>

>DEPP: If there was anyone in terms of inspiration for my sound, it was

>Anthony Newley [Broadway vet]. And Iggy Pop, y'know? Iggy's kind of

>this very aggressive crooner. Especially in the early stuff, there's

>something about his attack that's haunting.

>

>

>Not much, but they only gave the interview half a page. I'm sure Depp

>has more to say on the subject. Moreover, "Anything" by the Damned

>(back when Vanian was still sporting that hairstyle) is a direct re- write 

>of Iggy's "Five Foot One," so it all comes around.

>

>

>Alex in NYC

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