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Eddie Allan

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Oct 26, 1999, 3:00:00 AM10/26/99
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Does any one know if this b side to Strange Town was about the book The
Collector by john Fowles. It was also a film in the sixties with Terence
Stamp.

Thanks

EA

Indy

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Oct 26, 1999, 3:00:00 AM10/26/99
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can you explain your question

i'm french and i don't understand everything in you question.

I heard the Jam since 1977, yes 22 years .
fred

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Soul Skin

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Oct 26, 1999, 3:00:00 AM10/26/99
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Eddie Allan wrote:
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> Does any one know if this b side to Strange Town was about the book The
> Collector by john Fowles. It was also a film in the sixties with Terence
> Stamp.
>
> Thanks
>
> EA

I reckon it was more a stab at the charts, as well as obsessive
fans. I may be wrong though.


Billy

Tonight@Noon

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Oct 26, 1999, 3:00:00 AM10/26/99
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The Butterfly Collector is about Sue Catwoman Something, who administered
some executive relief to Paul just prior to a gig, I think she was some sort
of Super-Groupie.

As for the The book of the same name, Paul probably just nicked the title,
like he did with Absolute Beginners.

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Mr Bridger

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Oct 26, 1999, 3:00:00 AM10/26/99
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The song was initially written about a punk groupie called cat-woman who
weller nailed/shagged in a toilet cubicle while the rest of the band were
waiting to go onstage at a gig.
Cat-woman was one for the names/stars of the british punk era, listen to the
lyric's hence,
'It's just that face on your pillow case that thrills
you'.

Soul Skin

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Oct 26, 1999, 3:00:00 AM10/26/99
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Tonight@Noon wrote:
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> The Butterfly Collector is about Sue Catwoman Something, who administered
> some executive relief to Paul just prior to a gig, I think she was some sort
> of Super-Groupie.
>
> As for the The book of the same name, Paul probably just nicked the title,
> like he did with Absolute Beginners.
>

I stand corrected. Thanks, folks :)

Billy

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