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...life was eventful long before then. Cheung Kwok-wing was born the youngest of 10 children of a Hong Kong tailor?he made suits for William Holden and Alfred Hitchcock?and his wife. "I didn't have a happy childhood. Arguments, fights and we didn't live together; I was brought up by my granny." His nearest sibling was eight years older; Leslie says he was "the youngest and the loneliest. My brothers would be dating girls and I was left alone in the corner, playing GI Joe or with my Barbie doll. It was miserable. My father couldn...
...Says Hitchcock, “We just raided the vault to see what was left, or [what] I did…just to make it into the definitive Underwater Moonlight and put it in the context that it was in… And perhaps there’s that inevitable feeling that the further things are in history, the more important it is to excavate them. Back in 1990, only 10 years on, the first time we re-released it on disc in Britain [on Rykodisc], it didn’t seem that important to dig up all the rest...
...hold of this studio called Alaska, which has sort of its own special fungus and is under one of the bridges in Waterloo Station [in London]. He said, you might like to come try my studio, and a mere two years later we did,” says Hitchcock. Most of Moonlight (working title “That’s My Fish You’re Holding”) was recorded at Alaska for under £600, plus about £200 for outtakes and rehearsals now available on the second disc of the Moonlight re-release. These...
...Hitchcock and Rew have played on each other’s solo albums, and Metcalfe and Windsor later joined Robyn Hitchcock and the Egyptians. But Hitchcock feels there is an important difference between the Soft Boys and his collaborations with former Soft Boys as a solo artist. “[As the Soft Boys] they broadened the emotional spectrum, if you like, and that’s one of those cases where a group can enhance the work of the songwriter to the point where you say this is actually a performance by the group, rather than...
...only wonder what could possibly be next for the Soft Boys. Hitchcock himself is not sure. “I hope that we can keep the Soft Boys going, but on a part-time basis, if you know what I mean. Once you get into your 40s, you don’t want to be shackled to another bunch of men. Young people hunt in packs, especially guys. By the time you get into your 30s, you really don’t want to do things in formation. By the time you’ve reached your 40s, it?...