Trivia
Infos and facts that don't fit elsewhere...
;)
- Tony wrote and recorded a soundtrack to the 1978 movie "The Shout", together
with Mike Rutherford. The recording was never published. Parts of the main theme
can be heard in the piece "From The Undertow" on the "A Curious Feeling" album.
The movie deals about someone who can kill people by screaming (sic!). (Never
seen it, though!)
- The story of "A Curious Feeling" is loosely based on the science fiction story
"Flowers Of Algernon" by Daniel Keyes. (The motif of losing the mind when
falling in love). At the time there was a musical with the same content, so it
wasn't mentioned on the record, perhaps for copyright reasons.
- Tony spents much of his time with
gardening and collecting stamps nowadays. He still records music regularily and
has "hours of unreleased music", as he told in some interview.
- The soundtrack for the "The Wicked
Lady" movie was annouced in 2003 to be rereleased on CD with new artwork (together
with Rutherford's "Acting Very Strange"). Nothing has appeared since then,
though...
- Tony likes comedy movies (mentioned in
an article about Genesis).
- In an interesting article that was
published in 1991 Tony talks about his cars. Then he had an VW Bus (see picture)
and a eight-year-old Saab 900 with a rickety door (!). Read the full article
here.
- Toyah (Wilcox), the singer on the song
"Lion Of Symmetry" (Soundtracks) is the wife of King Crimson-mastermind Robert
Fripp, who worked with both Peter Gabriel and Phil Collins.
- There are actually some more "Tony
Banks"es of fame. One is a British politician, one a American baseball star. (Try
google for more info ;) )
- Tony is rumored to play on an obscure
album by a group called "Spring". I've seen it once at ebay, but never found out
if it is really "our" Tony Banks or a name-mate. The record appeared in 1971, if
remember correctly. If anybody can confirm this, please email me!
Songs not released
on albums (in that form)
Although there's only one "real" non-album-track ("Back To You"), there are a
couple of more or less interesting remixes and edits of Tony's songs.
Special mention for the really good single remix of "Walls Of Sound", which is
almost better than the album version (it was partly rerecorded by the man
himself and features some nice percussion and synth effects).
For A While (Edit)
[2.49] (1979, For A While 7")
For A While (Remix)
[3.34] (1979, For A While (Remix) 7")
A Curious Feeling (Remix)
[3.50] (1979, For A While (Remix) 7")
This Is Love (Extended)
[5.52] (1983, This Is Love 12" UK/US promo)
Charm (Extended)
[5.18] (1983, This Is Love 12") [this is strange: it's shorter than the album
version!]
K2
[3.57] (1983, Shortcut To Somewhere 12" UK + CD bonus track)
Sometime Never
[3.41] (1983, unreleased + CD bonus track)
Throwback (Remix by Bob Kraushaar)
[4.15] (1989, Throwback 7", 12", 3"CD, MCD)
Throwback (Edit)
[4.18] (1989, Throwback 12" US promo)
I'll Be Waiting (Edit)
[3.49] (1989, I'll Be Waiting 7", 12", MCD)
Diamonds Aren't So Hard
[5.12] (1989, I'll Be Waiting 7", 12", MCD + CD bonus track)
Hero For An Hour (Edit)
[4.40] (1991, I Wanna Change The Score promo?)
Still It Takes Me By Surprise (Edit)
[3.20] (1991, Still It Takes Me By Surprise 7", SiMC, MCD)
Back To You
[4.49] (Walls Of Sound MCD) (Banks/Kershaw; written for "Still")
Walls Of Sound (Remix)
[4.16] (Walls Of Sound MCD)
Only Seventeen (Instrumental)
[4.57] (1995, Walls Of Sound MCD)
Only Seventeen (Radio Edit)
[4.02] (1995, Only Seventeen MCD promo)
Only Seventeen (A Saabson/Svenson Remix)
[8.22] (Only Seventeen 12" promo)
Only Seventeen (A Saabson/Svenson Remix) (Edit)
[7.44] (Only Seventeen MCD)
Only Seventeen (House Mix by Andy Falconer)
[6.25] (Only Seventeen 12" promo)
Only Seventeen (House Mix by Andy Falconer) (Edit)
[5.55] (Only Seventeen MCD + promo)
