![]() The new artwork for both her single and album (set for release in November) was shot by Inez van Lamsweerde and Vinoodh Matadin, long-term collaborators of the singer and her creative team, the Haus of Gaga. I'm an icon that is made out of all the colours on the palette at every time. ![]() " defined by the same designer or defined by the same haircut or defined by the same icon," she told WWD. Of course, there's a new image to coincide with the new material - forget the lobster hats and meat dresses, this is a new stripped-back au-naturel Gaga. The star is preparing to release her new single, Applause, on August 19 and - along with it - the explosion of accompanying creative craziness that we've come to expect from her. "I'm going this year as a fried egg instead of hard-boiled." "I'm sending a doppelgänger," she joked of her forthcoming appearance. The singer recently went on a six-month break while she recovered from painful hip surgery, but will stage her comeback performance at the awards on August 25. The albums This Is London, Hello Europe and Enjoy make up the ‘Frank Summit’ trilogy, an ambitious work with the scope of Tommy or Quadrophenia that foretells Brexit and the rise of right wing leaders such as Donald Trump.LADY GAGA plans on wearing perhaps her most daring outfit yet to this year's MTV Video Music Awards - and this coming from the woman who once famously arrived at the Grammys encased inside an egg. Edward Ball has approved the box set and has contributed notes alongside MOJO and Record Collector writer Lois Wilson. ![]() The 1986 album Up Against It is the soundtrack to Joe Orton’s rejected screenplay for The Beatles that was staged by Edward Ball and Mood Six’s Tony Conway at a West London theatre. McGee was a fan of The Times and the ‘Pop Goes Art!’ and ‘This Is London’ albums and they inspired his own band Biff Bang Pow! and Creation Records. The Whaam! label set up by Edward Ball with the Television Personalities’ Dan Treacy and Ball’s own Artpop! Label were a direct inspiration for Alan McGee to set up Creation Records who signed Edward Ball in 1988. ![]() Treacy plays guitar on the Pop Goes Art! album which was originally released on Dan and Ed’s Whaam! Records before being reissued on Edward’s Artpop! label. Six CD box set containing the complete recordings released between 19 by Edward Ball’s indie mod band The Times including their albums Go! With The Times (recorded 1980 but released in 1985), Pop Goes Art! (1982), This Is London (1983), Hello Europe (1984), Up Against It (1986) and Enjoy (1986).Īlso includes The Times’ rare 1981 debut single ‘Red With Purple Flashes’ / ‘Biff! Bang! Pow!’ which has sold for over £300 on Discogs and was named as one of the top five mod revival singles in Mojo magazine.īonus tracks include The Times’ legendary take on the ‘Theme From Dangerman’, a cover ofĭavid Bowie’s ‘London Boys’, tracks from the 12” EPs ‘I Helped Patrick McGoohan Escape’ (1983), ‘Blue Period’ (1985), ‘Boys About Town’ (1986) and ‘Times TV’ (1986) and an alternative version of perhaps their most famous song ‘I Helped Patrick McGoohan Escape’ (inspired by cult TV series The Prisoner) taken from the ‘A Splash Of Colour’ compilation that celebrated the early 1980s psychedelic revival.Įdward Ball was a member of cult band The Television Personalities alongside his school friend Dan Treacy before leaving to concentrate on The Times.
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