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Topic History of: Wikipedia editors 4 JK bio, Please?
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JK2006 |
Since this thread seems to have become more music specific I've started a new one over on the Tipsheet board... |
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DR2 |
No idea for sure, DJones, but by the time of Darren Burn's launch in July, 1973, they had already spent £150,000 at 1973 prices...which would be millions of pounds at 2009 prices and they would have spent a lot more by the time they ended his contract just over a year later.
At the time of his initial two singles, there seemed to be a big poster in every record shop with his photo on it and bearing the legend "Introducing Darren Burn." His first single was played a lot on the radio and it was chosen as Tony Blackburn's Record Of The Week on Radio 1 from Monday, July 23rd, to Friday, July 27th, 1973 and played every day. In addition, he was in most of the newspapers and fan magazines and the BBC must have considered him important enough to make the Man Alive film about him, which, with hindsight, could now be regarded as the documentation of a prelude to tragedy. Although in the summer of 1973, it really did look to myself and others that we were witnessing the birth of a superstar.
Someone who worked for EMI at the time told me he reckoned that they didn't spend as much on Darren as they could have done, because it would have looked odd, with his father being an executive at the company.
I don't know how much JK spent on Ricky Wilde's promotion at the time, but my guess is nowhere near the vast amount EMI spent on Darren Burn. |
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DJones |
DR2, have you any information about how much money EMI spend on the marketing of Darren Burns (and other Weeny Boppers)? Thanks! |
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DR2 |
Yes, it took me many years to find out the location of that house featured in the Man Alive film. Eric Woolfson couldn't remember whereabouts in Southgate (Borough of Enfield) it was, either. Then, I had a bit of luck. A fellow member of The Mausoleum Club Forum had a 1973 telephone book for London and he said only one Colin Burn was listed in it and that was at 17, Queen Elizabeth's Drive, Southgate. So he and two other members, who lived only a few miles from Southgate, very kindly went last July (2008) to the address and photographed it for me with digital cameras and sent the pictures to me by email. On receiving them, I confirmed that it was indeed the same house.
Last November, thinking that they would be very interested, as it contains footage of the exterior and interior of their house as it looked in July, 1973, I sent a DVD-R copy of the Man Alive film to the present occupants of the house, explaining just who used to live there and all about the BBC Television programme being made there. Whether they received it, I don't know. But they certainly never acknowledged it.
After much research, I now know all but three of the locations featured in the film. These are Jonathan King's office where he is seem with Ricky Wilde and where he is interviewed about Darren; Larry Page's office where he is interviewed about The James Boys and Music Star magazine's office where editor Drew Smith is interviewed about Darren. |
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mikemacca |
I suspect the release date was delayed as often happened. Cockney rebel's "Judy Teen" was released the same day and also got delayed a fortnight. The postmen were probably on strike !
Colin and Johanna Burn's house (the one used in the documentary) was at 17, Queen Elizabeth's Drive, Enfield, London, Greater London, N14 6RG. It sold in November 2007 for £605.000
EMI had another boy singer around the same time, one Jeffrey Hooper, who also released a few singles with no success |
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