The Laughing Apple - Revision history

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	==External Links==		==External Links==
	*[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q_6YusSxFIk&list=~~PL1-KFVWUsQ-nBEpWUBYnXJBg434lxq8CK~~ The Laughing Apple] - YouTube		*[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q_6YusSxFIk&list=PLk7QWCxwvn_DaqILd8AeNIwYAZZeVio2E&pp=gAQBiAQB8AUB The Laughing Apple] - YouTube

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	'''The Laughing Apple''' was a band from London which produced indie music but was influenced by the '60s and [[Wikipedia:The Jam\|The Jam]].		'''The Laughing Apple''' was a band from London which produced indie music but was influenced by the '60s and [[Wikipedia:The Jam\|The Jam]].

	[[Wikipedia:Alan McGee\|Alan McGee]] recalls: "I never really made good friends (in London) until I started running the Living Room Club. Kind of '82 or '83. I knew people though... [[Dick Green]] (ex-BGS) who then went on to do [[Dick Green\|Creation]] with me, he was friends with [[Ken Popple]] (ex-BGS), the Laughing Apple drummer. And we brought him in as the second guitar player when [[Wikipedia:Andrew Innes\|Innes]] went home. Innes went home for nine months and Dick became the guitar player. And that was The Laughing Apple. We did one single but it was a really terrible version of [[Wikipedia:Joy Division\|Joy Division]]. I don't know if you've ever heard it. It is absolutely like one of those things that you hope people will never hear. And then the band broke up. But we all stayed sort of pals... (when the band broke up the members were) me, Dick Green, Ken and this boy from Newcastle who had joined them as the second guitarist because like Dick had become the first guitar player."<ref>[https://books.google.co.uk/books?id=sUNwCQAAQBAJ Alan McGee and the Story of Creation Records] by Paolo Hewitt</ref>		[[Wikipedia:Alan McGee\|Alan McGee]] recalls: "I never really made good friends (in London) until I started running the Living Room Club. Kind of '82 or '83. I knew people though... [[Dick Green]] (ex-BGS) who then went on to do [[Dick Green\|Creation]] with me, he was friends with [[Ken Popple]] (ex-BGS), the Laughing Apple drummer. And we brought him in as the second guitar player when [[Wikipedia:Andrew Innes\|(Andrew) Innes]] went home. Innes went home for nine months and Dick became the guitar player. And that was The Laughing Apple. We did one single but it was a really terrible version of [[Wikipedia:Joy Division\|Joy Division]]. I don't know if you've ever heard it. It is absolutely like one of those things that you hope people will never hear. And then the band broke up. But we all stayed sort of pals... (when the band broke up the members were) me, Dick Green, Ken and this boy from Newcastle who had joined them as the second guitarist because like Dick had become the first guitar player."<ref>[https://books.google.co.uk/books?id=sUNwCQAAQBAJ Alan McGee and the Story of Creation Records] by Paolo Hewitt</ref>

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{{Infobox musical artist
| name = Biff Bang Pow!
| image =
| caption =
| alt =
| background =
| origin = London
| genre = Indie
| years_active = 1981-1982
| label = Autonomy; Essential
| associated_acts = [[Biff Bang Pow!]]
| website =
| current_members =
| past_members = Alan McGee (bass), [[Dick Green]] (guitar), [[Ken Popple]] (drums), Andrew Innes, Mark Jardim
}}
'''The Laughing Apple''' was a band from London which produced indie music but was influenced by the '60s and [[Wikipedia:The Jam|The Jam]].

[[Wikipedia:Alan McGee|Alan McGee]] recalls: "I never really made good friends (in London) until I started running the Living Room Club. Kind of '82 or '83. I knew people though... [[Dick Green]] (ex-BGS) who then went on to do [[Dick Green|Creation]] with me, he was friends with [[Ken Popple]] (ex-BGS), the Laughing Apple drummer. And we brought him in as the second guitar player when [[Wikipedia:Andrew Innes|Innes]] went home. Innes went home for nine months and Dick became the guitar player. And that was The Laughing Apple. We did one single but it was a really terrible version of [[Wikipedia:Joy Division|Joy Division]]. I don't know if you've ever heard it. It is absolutely like one of those things that you hope people will never hear. And then the band broke up. But we all stayed sort of pals... (when the band broke up the members were) me, Dick Green, Ken and this boy from Newcastle who had joined them as the second guitarist because like Dick had become the first guitar player."<ref>[https://books.google.co.uk/books?id=sUNwCQAAQBAJ Alan McGee and the Story of Creation Records] by Paolo Hewitt</ref>

==External Links==
*[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q_6YusSxFIk&list=PL1-KFVWUsQ-nBEpWUBYnXJBg434lxq8CK The Laughing Apple] - YouTube

==References==
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[[Category:Bands]]
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