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THE ORIGINAL 70'S ROCK BAND PUSSY FROM THE UK WAS MANAGED AND PRODUCED BY IAN GILLAN OF DEEP PURPLE. PAUL DEAN AND RAY SPARROW FORMED PUSSY ALONG WITH BOB COOKE AFTER DISBANDING CULT ROCK BAND JERUSALEM. THEY MADE THE DECISION NOT TO CONTINUE WITH THE NAME JERUSALEM OUT OF RESPECT FOR WHAT JERUSALEM WAS ALL ABOUT AT THAT TIME IN MUSICAL HISTORY. ALTHOUGH THE MUSICAL DIRECTION OF PUSSY WAS QUITE DIFFERENT TO JERUSALEM, THEY CONTINUED TO KEEP THAT RAW, NO RULES EDGE WHICH SET THEM APART FROM MANY OF THE BANDS AT THE TIME. FOR EXAMPLE, AT THIS TIME IT WAS VERY FASHIONABLE TO WRITE VERY LONG SONGS, BUT PUSSY DID THE OPPOSITE, SO ALL RECORDINGS ARE AROUND SINGLE LENGTH. VERY MUCH A 'WHAM BAM THANK YOU MAM' TYPE IMPACT. THEIR SONGS COULD BE ABOUT ABSOLUTELY ANYTHING WHATSOEVER, MAYBE THEY WERE TAKING THE PISS OUT OF EVERYONE ELSE, WHO KNOWS? ON STAGE ANYTHING COULD HAPPEN, NO RULES OF COURSE! THEY GIGGED ALL OVER THE UK AND ALSO GERMANY. THE BBC REFUSED TO PLAY THEIR SINGLE 'FELINE WOMAN' FOR SOME REASON!!, BUT LEADING BBC DJ AT THE TIME ALAN FREEMAN TOOK NO NOTICE AND PLAYED IT AGAINST ORDERS ON HIS UK's No1 SHOW, SAID HE REALLY LIKED IT AND SHOULD BE A HIT.THE RUMOURS OVER THE YEARS SAID THERE WAS A SECOND UNRELEASED JERUSALEM ALBUM - THIS IS NOT TRUE - IT WAS ACTUALLY A PUSSY ALBUM WHICH WAS GOING TO BE RELEASED ON ARIOLA, BUT NEGOTIATIONS TOOK SO LONG THE WHOLE THING FELL APART. THE LEAD GUITARIST ON THE MAIN ALBUM IS NOT BOB COOKE BUT AN AMERICAN CALLED BRIAN GOFF WHO RE-RECORDED THE LEAD GUITAR PARTS AFTER BOB DECIDED TO LEAVE THE BAND TO DO OTHER THINGS. BRIAN WAS A GOOD FRIEND OF RITCHIE BLACKMORE AND THE SON OF IVAN GOFF PRODUCER/SCREENWRITER (CHARLIES ANGELS, MANNIX ETC.). HE LATER JOINED L.A. BAND THE SIGHTS. P.S. MOST OF THE BACKING VOCALS ARE IAN GILLAN
!!! THIS ALBUM WILL BE RELEASED FOR THE FIRST TIME EVER BY ROCKADROME RECORDS (www.rockadrome.com) IN 2009 AFTER THE OFFICIAL RE-MASTERED RELEASE OF THE ORIGINAL JERUSALEM ALBUM (DECEMBER 2008). BOTH ALBUMS WILL HAVE EXTRA BITS & PIECES. !!!
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION ON PUSSY, QUESTIONS, WHATEVER - CONTACT PAUL DEAN [email protected]
ALSO www.myspace.com/pauldeansite
