OFF:Has this ever happend to You? -Reply /Summer of Lou

[Nick English]

Here's another boneheaded manuever like the one you mentioned about
the Swedish guy. About five or six years ago, I bought a girlfriend
the new (at the time, anyway) Paul McCartney live on cassette. I
can't remember what it was called, but I think it came from Moscow.
Anyway, the day after I gave it to her, she called to tell me that
the whole tape had been recorded backwards! I told her to save it --
possibly a collector's item or something -- but she had already
returned it. No matter I married someone else!

Also -- This one's not much of a horror story, but slightly
interesting. When Iron Maiden's Powerslave came out, I rushed to get
the record. When I put it on my turntable, it was Paul DiAnno's
Battlezone. A devilish ploy by a disgruntled ex-vocalist? I guess
we'll never know.

--Nick