HW: Brock intervew

[Doug Pearson]

On Wed, 3 Mar 1999 17:35:04 -0500, John Majka <flossbac at NLCI.COM> wrote:
>At 05:16 PM 3/3/99 +0000, Jonathan Jarrett wrote:
>>On Wed, 3 Mar 1999, Keith Henderson wrote:
>>
>>> Mandelkau *is* Turner, just as L. Steele is Moorcock, and MacManus is
Brock.
>>> Right?

For purposes of SONGWRITING CREDITS ("Kadu Flyer", "Choose Your Masques",
"Silver Machine"/"7x7"), the above is true.  What's complicating things is
that Jamie Mandelkau (or is it Mandelkav ... see the Deviants' 'Disposable'
and 'Deviants (#3)' albums?), Linda Steele and Sean MacManus are also real
people (who have all been identified in other peoples' posts) who had
nothing to do with the songs that Nik, Mike and Dave, respectively, used
their names on the songwriting credits for.

>>        MacManus is Dik Mik! He only got two credits, poor lad. As for
>>Jamie Mandelkau, see my last post.

What about "Electronic No. 1"? ;^)

>No, quite wrong I'm afraid.  Brock has repeatedly said in interviews how it
>was necessary for him to use a fictitious name in order to collect
>royalties, since those accruing to the name "Brock" were being skimmed by
>devious record-company types.  MacManus is Dave Brock.

Not entirely wrong; Sean MacManus is DikMik's real name (I think Jon is
correct on this?), but the songwriting credited to that name is Dave Brock's.

As for me, two of my favorite songwriters are Trad Arr and Anon ...

        -Doug
         ceres at sirius.com