Old Fart's letter to Melody Maker!

Here's a letter I emailed to Melody Maker on 13th Aug 1998. And they actually printed it in their 29th Aug issue!!! If you follow the links here, you can see the piccies I was complaining about!!!! Which is just as well, because you probably wouldn't understand this letter otherwise!!!

If you just came here by way of a search, you can find out more in issue 7 of the ezine Senior Citizen!!!


Subject: Re: (15/8/98) Issue!!!
Date: Thu, 13 Aug 1998 18:28:55 +0100
From: "Old Fart!!!"
Organization: Senior Dads
To: your_shout@ipc.co.uk

Dear Melody Maker....

Bllleeeuurrghaaarrgghh!!!

That was me just reading Melody Maker Aug 15 1998!!!(1) I had a very nice lunch at the cafe down the road, and I've now just lost it due to the insensitivity of your photo editors in assembling the most unnerving collection of "images" ever seen in a single publication!!!!! Including:

Was this a complex ruse to make the Mansun photos look reasonable by comparision!??! If so, it's succeeded!!! But only by turning MM into the rock music journalism equivalent (5) of "Saving Private Ryan"!!!!!!

Like the Kylie song, I'm "Shocked"!!!!!!!! (3)

Yours blah blah,

Old Fart!

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Differences with letter printed in MM...

  1. Phrase changed to "Bratpop Melody Maker"!!!
  2. Sentence hanged to: "Ewan MacGregor sporting a Martian/Seventies-style hairpiece"!
  3. Whole sentence cut!!!!
  4. Word changed to "shot"!!!
  5. Phrase changed to: "magazine equivalent"!!!!
Other differences are: