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Tuesday, 17 April 2018

You Better Believe Me

In 1977 Hugh Cornwell found some Posh Totty to put on the casting couch, and the resulting birth was a single on which said Posh bird was backed up by the Stranglers in a clandestine attempt to make a New Wave cash in 'Hit'. 


Of course it failed, but this didn't stop JJ resurrecting the idea with a second.....yes, I said second, single!?
This one was a lot better, mainly because it had the Pub Rock dream team of JJ Burnel and Wilko Johnson backing up the aforementioned Posh Totty. They even wrote a new tune for her; "You Better Believe Me"......it’s true!


All four tracks have the magnificent JJ Burnel Bass sound, but once we lose the plodding Jet Black Drumming, and Hugh Cornwell's anaemic guitar. Bring in Wilko's choppy Tele, ably backed up by one time Rockpile stick-man Terry Williams; we get something verging on the very good.