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| From | "Ryan Hoekstra" <erhoek@comcast.net> |
| Subject | the Alarm does it again? |
| Date | Fri, 20 Feb 2004 14:40:00 -0500 |
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Posted from another news group.
Fri Feb 20, 8:35 AM ET
LONDON (Reuters) - An aging UK rock group gave themselves a facelift
by getting a group of teenagers to stand in for them on the video of
their latest song, helping them score their first chart hit for some
15 years.
Convinced the music industry is prejudiced against wrinkly rockers,
The Alarm gave themselves the pseudonym The Poppyfields and persuaded
a group of fresh-faced youths to mime their part.
"They did it to show they wanted to be judged on music and not on
their image and haircuts of 15 years ago," said a spokesman for the
band.
The single, 45RPM, went into the UK charts this week at number 28.
The Welsh band were previously best known for 1983 hit "68 guns" and
said they pulled the stunt to show how much image affected sales in
the music industry.
Fascinating...isn't it?
-r
np....Head of Femur-Ringdom or Proctor
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