Schooldays b/w True Stories - 1982

 

The second single, Schooldays, backed with True Stories or "that song that sounds like Boney M" as the band used to call it.  It was maybe a bit of an attempt to be a bit Madnessy was Schooldays, and the Boney M jibe to be perfectly honest, isn't that far short of the truth!  Watch out for the cossack style "Hey"s!  It's the one record that was always universally known as the one which the band regretted doing the most!  Produced by Ray Dorset (he of the mentalist sideburns out of Mungo Jerry).

     The cover is one hell of a rarity, as even I didn't know about it until Dizzy from Detour Records and I were comparing Gents collections and he enquired if I had it, which I didn't...and still don't!  None of the band had ever seen one when I showed them this scan and could only vaguely remember the photographs being taken even, in the garden at Ray Dorset's studio apparently.  Conventional thinking is that (according to Paul Burton) 50 picture sleeves were done to send to record companies and radio stations etc.  If you've got one I'll swop you my house for one! (that's an exaggeration by the way, but you I think you know what I mean).