TipperaryAnn wrote:Diane wrote:
I heard on the bootleg - and I think do vaguely recall - a woman in the audience requesting Lady Midnight over and over. Leonard said he hadn't rehearsed it but she persisted and finally he said if she came to him later he would whisper it to her.
Greetings Diane,
I wonder did she?! Access to LC was probably easier in 1985.
Much of your description of Leonard then would still apply to him now - except the black hair, of course!
Ann, I suspect she didn't; it was the
song she wanted. I typed out some of the Lady Midnight incident a couple of weeks ago, and then decided it wasn't much funny if not heard live. But as I just came across it again, thought I'd post anyway. The woman would have to have been ejected to give up I think.
This from towards the end of the concert, following numerous calls for Lady Midnight throughout. Hammersmith Odeon Feb 26th 1985:
Lady with monotone saaf London accent (a bit like mine, but it wasn't me I swear), shoutingly:
Lady Midnight!
LC: If you say that one more time. I'm going to play for another three hours.
Audience: cheers
Lady: Lady Midnight!
LC: Let's not make an issue of this... let me continue...
Lady: Lady Midnight!
LC: I'm not gonna play that song.
Audience: laughs
LC: I want to pay tribute to... our bus driver (etc)..
Lady: Lady Midnight!
LC: ...and I want to thank Miss Lady Midnight for the volume of her voice, the persistence of her spirit, the timbre of her heart ... please come behind stage and I will whisper the words to you...
Lady: Lady Midnight!
LC then performs a fine Joan of Arc
during the applause...
Lady: Lady Midnight!
LC: there are terrible sordid details in the life of a musician; I will convery some to you. There is a persistent woman here. I do applaud her enthusiasm, I really do, but I never taught the band Lady Midnight. I've forgotten it. That sometimes happens. Seriously friends, if the lady wants Lady Midnight please come up here and sing. I love that song but I don't want my career to stand or fall on whether I can sing Lady Midnight. Please forgive me.
Lady: Lady Midnight!
It actually sounds like Paula but she has already denied it...