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| La Lollo, "on set" at Scotland's famed Gorbals Castle - roll 'em! Action! |
Gentlemen of a certain age, and skeevy geriatrics such as like you, will remember "La Lollo" [above - Ed.] with wistful fondness, from an age when dames wus dames and us guys wus just a buncha chumps wit' us tongue hangin' out. But did you know she nearly joined a contemporary Scottish folk music group?
Let La Lollo tell the tale!
"We were filming Haggis - Italian Style! in the wonderful English Highlands, with all the wonderful actors, like Lord James Robertson Justice and Sir Gordon Robertson Jackson. I am autographing to the musicians who make the wonderful tradition music for the banquet scene, and they propose I am making a record with them! I had a natural, how you say, feeling? For the proud Scottish culture. The Scottish and the Italians are so much alike! Italians are beautiful, passionate, live life to the full. We have the best food and cars and buildings and art in the world, and the best and most beautiful cities and countryside and beaches, and ice cream and sunshine. The Scots have ... they ... well, they are ... anyway ... unfortunately, we must to return to Roma! I was heartbreaking! But I will never forget my weekend filming in your wonderful country and the wonderful friends I made there!"
Bread Love And Dreams, the banquet scene musicians, attempted to exploit their brief association with the sultry sex bomb from Sienna in trade advertisements [above - Ed.], but swift legal action prevented further use of her name and/or image in any context and for any purpose whatsoever. "Feck tha' bitch," said vocalist Angie Davis at the time, "she needs us muir tha' we need heer."
The band retaliated by removing (Theme From) Haggis - Italian Style! from their album, although it appeared briefly on the import-only soundtrack recording [below - Ed.].
Sadly, Bread Love And Dreams are currently residing in the where are they now category, although they doggedly released three albums before taking up full time sporran farming and alcoholism in the Outer Hebrides.
This post made possible by an insane amount of technology wedded to an almost supernatural yet fundamentally misguided intelligence, and don't kid yourself.
Who among you will step forward and make his reedy voice heard in the echoing silence of the comment section?
ReplyDeleteThis reminds me I have a tin(!) of haggis in the cupboard. As an Englishman, am I alone in really liking haggis?
ReplyDeleteAs a sentient carbon-based lifeform, you are alone in liking haggis. In tests, starving rats were seen throwing haggis away.
DeleteForget the haggis, what about Scotland's most famous poet Ewan McTeagle!
ReplyDeleteCame for the cleavage, left with a tummy ache.
ReplyDeleteAh . . . Lollo - I have been searching for many years for a copy of her magnum opus album "Gina's Biggest Tits" in its 12" incarnation - thus far to no avail. Mayhap, an aficionado hereupon will come up Trumps and satisfy my needs before it's too late (well, at 82 perhaps it already is).
ReplyDeleteThe lead guitarist of Bread Love and Dreams had two sons who continued in their father's less than impressionable footsteps, and founded The Jesus and Mary Chain.
ReplyDeleteHaggis looks like shit and when you taste it you wish it would be. Then andouillette is like politics, it has to smell like shit but not too much.
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