NO WONDER BILL AND JIMMY WERE ANNOYED...

I mentioned yesterday that back in 1989 Bill Drummond and Jimmy Cauty had been unsuccesful in getting enough funding to complete their film The White Room. It must have been particularly galling to look around at the money that had been wasted on other musical projects not all that long before, and in particular the turkey that was Absolute Beginners.Released in 1986, it was a musical adaptation of the Colin MacInnes book of the same name about life in late 1950s London. It was directed by Juli...

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