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I have to admit though, I enjoy being able to tell people who John is. The fact that a lot of people don't know his work, kind of makes being a FoxxFan feel a bit more exclusive... unfortunately for some fanatics, it makes you too protective and obsessive of an artist, but at best, it's a bit like knowing a best-kept secret!

Am I making sense?!

i still remember the very strange & totally surprised look on the face of the guy in my local record store way back in 1981 , when i wanted to buy john's "the garden" album - i was jus' 13 years ol' then & spent my whole pocket money on that vinyl copy ... sadly without "the church" booklet , which i've got for xmas ( so to say ;-) last year from a very kind fan of john , who had some spare things of mr. foxx to part with ! :-)

"full circle" ... 25 years later ! ;-)

I've just had a tel. con. with a customer and he said that he lived on Canvey Island, so asked if he remembered Fad Gadget's 'Back to Nature', as it mentions 'caravan on Canvey sands'. He said he did and passed a rude comment about them, and when I asked him if he knew JF he said yes!! He went on to say that JF was the original singer in Ultravox and that he remembered Underpass!! At last - someone who doesn't say "WHO?"

Sarah B xx

Well, here's a thing in a similar vein.
Downstairs from my office is a 'streetwear' store, called Tripp Records who stock a few bits of vinyl and loads of tapes. Mainly hip/trip hop, drum'n'bass stuff of the kind enjoyed by younger people…

They have a vinyl copy of Crash and Burn in stock!!
Always amazes me that in fact John Foxx might have more of a presence than we sometimes think.

But I agree that 99.99999% of the time, no-one has heard of him