HW: Live Legends gig

M Holmes fofp at HOLYROOD.ED.AC.UK
Sat Mar 18 14:03:32 EST 2000


Tim Gadd writes:


> Kadu flyer is a Bob-song? Ok, I'm pretty confused about this track. I just
> checked my CD and was surprised to find it didn't have composer credits, and
> I've sold my vinyl version, but my memory is that it was attributed to
> Rudolph/Mendlkau<sp>. On the tape Bob Calvert sent me, he remarked that
> Jamie Mendelkau was a Canadian writer who was a friend of his (I can't
> remember the context of this, and can't look it up, because Knut Gewers
> never returned the tape when I lent it to him for his Calvert site).
> However, on the tape which Nik made for me in 1984 he basically says that
> _he_ wrote Kadu Flyer and that it was incorrectly attributed to someone else
> on the label.


To me anyway, the lyrics very obviously have Calvert's quirkiness and
linkages. Also Calvert was quite obsessed with flying. The only line to
me that sounds like Turner is "a dragon wing of string and sticks"

FoFP



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