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's eighth studio album ''

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'' (1978) by Entwistle, but was rejected by the band for being too humorous. A demo was recorded by Entwistle and

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. The demo was largely forgotten and was believed to have been lost until the 1990s. Entwistle resorted to his old demos for material for the soundtrack to the 1997 children's television programme ''Van Pires'', to help him meet a contract which agreed he would write and record 13 new songs and a theme tune in 3 months. When the band's drummer, Steve Luongo heard the demo, he recognized

's drumming on the demo, and the band decided to record a new version of the song with Moon's original drum track.

Track listing

Personnel

The John Entwistle Band * John Entwistle –

vocals Singing is the art of creating music with the voice. It is the oldest form of musical expression, and the human voice can be considered the first musical instrument. The definition of singing varies across sources. Some sources define sing ...

bass guitar The bass guitar (), also known as the electric bass guitar, electric bass, or simply the bass, is the lowest-pitched member of the guitar family. It is similar in appearance and construction to an Electric guitar, electric but with a longer nec ...

, brass,

orchestration Orchestration is the study or practice of writing music for an orchestra (or, more loosely, for any musical ensemble, such as a concert band) or of adapting music composed for another medium for an orchestra. Also called "instrumentation", orch ...

, mixing * Steve Luongo –

percussion A percussion instrument is a musical instrument that is sounded by being struck or scraped by a percussion mallet, beater including attached or enclosed beaters or Rattle (percussion beater), rattles struck, scraped or rubbed by hand or ...

drums The drum is a member of the percussion instrument, percussion group of musical instruments. In the Hornbostel–Sachs classification system, it is a membranophones, membranophone. Drums consist of at least one Acoustic membrane, membrane, c ...

, vocals, orchestration, mixing * Alan St. Jon – keyboards, synthesizer, organ, backing vocals, orchestration * Godfrey Townsend –

guitar The guitar is a stringed musical instrument that is usually fretted (with Fretless guitar, some exceptions) and typically has six or Twelve-string guitar, twelve strings. It is usually held flat against the player's body and played by strumming ...

, backing vocals with: *

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–

lead guitar Lead guitar (also known as solo guitar) is a musical part for a guitar in which the guitarist plays melody lines, instrumental fill passages, guitar solos, and occasionally, some riffs and chords within a song structure. The lead is the featur ...

and lead vocals on "Don't Be a Sucker" *

– drums on "Bogey Man" * Mark and Jade Varley – speech on "Good and Evil" Technical * Bobby Pridden – engineer

References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Music From Van-Pires John Entwistle albums 2000 soundtrack albums Television soundtracks Albums produced by John Entwistle