HW: Michael Moorcock (was The Quest for Levitation)

[Allan T Grohe Jr]

On Fri, 14 Jun 1996, Alex S. Garcia wrote:

> There is sort of a crossover
> >story,
> >"Elric at the End of Time", which isn't too popular though I liked it...

That one actually is Elric crossed with the Dancers at the End of Time.
Jerrry Cornelius doesn't appear in it (unless I'm just really remembering
this story wrong).

> Yeah, I *do* remember that story... I also liked it a lot. Wasn't that in
> "The sailor on the seas of fate" (my favorite Elric book, BTW) ? I remember
> several Eternal Champions meeting (among which Hawkmoon and Corum if my
> memory serves me right) but I don't recall Jery Cornelius being included in
> the bunch...

No, the only times that I recall Elric and JC meeting were in the party
lists from the later Cornelius books.  JC also gets a passing mention in
the first (first two??) Erekose books, _The Eternal Champion_ and
_Phoenix in Obsidian_ (aka _The Silver Warriors_).

"Needle Gun" for me always stuck out like a sore thumb, the way that
"Kings of Speed" does on Warrior:  they're both good songs, but way
off-theme for the lps...

> Hmm... I've been wondering about something else. I'm surprised Moorcock
> himself hasn't written these lyrics. I was expecting to find his signature
> on these songs. I know he did write some songs (quite a few even, I believe
> ?) for HW, but which ones and on which albums ? (is there a list somewhere ?
> is that in the Codex ? if so, I've saved it in my hard drive so I could
> check...) I'd like to hear those cause the stuff he wrote for BOC are among
> my favorite BOC tunes... and he's a damn good lyricist !

The funny thing is, he doesn't consider himself a good poet:  he ranks
lyrics and his various Wheldrake short poems as fakes--not real poems.
I think some are rather good, though much of the printed poems are better
than the material he did for HW and BOC.

Hadn't we talked about doing an MM poetry book at some point (Jill??)?

Allan.

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