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PRESS RELEASE: Dukes of Stratosphear demos discovered! LONDON - 3 August - The music world was both shocked and overjoyed today by the news of the discovery of old demos by the Dukes of Stratosphear. For over 30 years the demos of their earliest songs on a collection of tapes have lain in a forgotten rusted locker at Waterloo train station, the key to which has been long lost. On forcing open the door, station attendants found a collection of old reel to reel tapes, with faded handwritten labels bearing titles such as '25 O'Clock' and 'The Mole From the Ministry'. Professor Profundity, Head of Department in Profound Studies at Princeton University, declared the find as the most important development he could remember for musicologists and pop fans alike. "These tapes are remarkable. They show a band at a crossroads, with one tentative nervous foot in the new world of psychedelia - a world new and strange to them, which they don't seem to understand - and the other foot in the reassuring stability of the past, which they don't seem to understand either. Most exciting of all is the discovery of a song called 'Half Past Eight', which is clearly the embryonic vision of the later '25 O'Clock'." Yesterday, journalists tracked down Sir John Johns - real name John 'Johnny' Johnston - at his job as a toilet attendant in Tooting Bec, the career to which he returned after the demise of The Dukes of Stratosphear. "I'm not at all happy about the discovery of our demos," he said, angrily squeezing out his mop into a bucket. "And I'm never going to forgive Cornelius Plum for losing the key to that stupid locker. When our albums '25 O'Clock' and 'Psonic Psunspot' were released, people just laughed and called us rip-off merchants. Now these demos are being posted all over the internet, people are going to say we never did have an original idea in our heads after all. |
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