Who originally wrote/performed the song Blue Flower, which both Mazzy Star and Pale Saints have covered?
It was originally done in the ’70s by the band Slapp Happy, written by Peter Blegvad and Anthony Moore. Julian Lawton writes: “Peter Blegvad is currently a cartoonist on the Independent On Sunday (Leviathan) – he also did solo stuff with Andy Partridge of XTC. Moore also worked as part of Faust’s floating line up (or was it Amon Duul) and I think both were in Henry Cow, as well as Slaphappy. The one time I saw a Slaphappy LP it was very expensively priced in a collectors shop!!!” If you’re interested in Slapp Happy, they’ve recently reformed and have a new album out called ca va which has been received well. See the Wire magazine issue 170, April 1998 for example.
