Never heard of her but thanks to modern technology listening now! Ah the heady mid seventies when after saving up for weeks agonising over whether to buy what I’d read about in those weeks or pick up a recommendation (if any were in stock!!!). Our local library had a great stock of comedy LPs too.
Yeah, Dory is really good. Shame she’s not better known but with all the music ever made being available worldwide these days, the cult seems to be growing! Revisiting those six 70s albums to write the piece was a genuinely moving experience, for the times in my life it conjured up as much as the sheer brutal honesty - and, crucially the craft - of her writing. Such a great talent.
Fantastic claim to fame, that. Would that have meant she was Andre and Mia’s kid?
You know, I really can't remember... it was so long ago! Back in the early 2000s I revisited Dory's music because I knew that "Beware Young Girls" was about Mia. (I actually got to interview Mia in the course of my work re: The Omen remake, and she was lovely.) Also, when I was a very young child, my mom used to listen to that song "20 Mile Zone," and it scared me a little... those lyrics!
I saw her in Glasgow (I think at the Apollo) in 1977. Jane Relf's Nucleus were support. After half a century I can't remember much about it except enjoying it a lot and singing along (quietly) with everything she played.
Never heard of her but thanks to modern technology listening now! Ah the heady mid seventies when after saving up for weeks agonising over whether to buy what I’d read about in those weeks or pick up a recommendation (if any were in stock!!!). Our local library had a great stock of comedy LPs too.
Hope you like her stuff Paul. No buying record’s on spec in those days, you had to be 100% sure you'd like it.
She's great! I grew up with one of Andre's daughters (same neighborhood).
Yeah, Dory is really good. Shame she’s not better known but with all the music ever made being available worldwide these days, the cult seems to be growing! Revisiting those six 70s albums to write the piece was a genuinely moving experience, for the times in my life it conjured up as much as the sheer brutal honesty - and, crucially the craft - of her writing. Such a great talent.
Fantastic claim to fame, that. Would that have meant she was Andre and Mia’s kid?
You know, I really can't remember... it was so long ago! Back in the early 2000s I revisited Dory's music because I knew that "Beware Young Girls" was about Mia. (I actually got to interview Mia in the course of my work re: The Omen remake, and she was lovely.) Also, when I was a very young child, my mom used to listen to that song "20 Mile Zone," and it scared me a little... those lyrics!
Impressive! Didn’t ask Mia about Dory then? I wouldn't have been able to stop myself.
I can see a young kid would be scared of all the screaming references in Twenty Mile Zone. I love the song, especially the punchline.
Ha! No... I valued my job and was there to interview her about the movie only :)
I saw her in Glasgow (I think at the Apollo) in 1977. Jane Relf's Nucleus were support. After half a century I can't remember much about it except enjoying it a lot and singing along (quietly) with everything she played.
Exellent. My second ever gig was The Crusaders supported by Randy Crawford. It was good, but I think you win that one!
my first, also at the Apollo, was the fondly remembered prog band Camel. April 1976.