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No news

There has been a lot of news in the UK about certain people, comedians, actors, presenters, authors whatever, being involved in legal cases about rape, sexual assault and inappropriate sexual behaviour. If you are interested, you can look them up. The two most recent are well-known around the world.

We’re not naming them here, or saying anything about what they did do or didn’t do or anything related to their cases. We don’t know all the details, we are not fans of either of these chaps, one is now serving a ten year prison sentence, the other is under investigation. It’s not our place to say.

We just wanted to make one comment. As has happened in previous cases, after it all comes to light and maybe a person is sentenced after being found guilty, people come out of the woodwork, often professional people in the same industry, and say things like “we knew what X was doing, we had evidence at the time, it was an open secret, people had concerns, he boasted about it”.

OK, so, why are you telling us this now? Why didn’t you report it at the time, why didn’t you take steps to stop these bad things happening?

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Faust

One of my favourite bands from the 1970s was championed by John Peel, the German band Faust.

You can find out all about them here: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Faust_(band)

They were originally signed to the Polydor label. Legend has it that the company thought they were signing the new Beatles. No…

Their first album caught the attention by being transparent in a transparent sleeve with a transparent word insert. We still have ours and play it.

Their second was all black.

They signed to Virgin who compiled a disc of bits and bobs, priced it at 49p and sold shed loads. A fourth album followed.

They were regulars on the late night BBC radio.

By Faust IV it had all gone a bit wrong and Faust were no more. Faust V was rejected by Virgin and they were released from their contract.

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