I was hoping to not have to unnecessarily create a new topic, I'd convinced myself that the place to post was within a previous thread relating to the death of various mucisian's last year, but our search facility took me to 'songs that reference other songs' and it would be inappropriate to tag it on. The post I was looking for was this:

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Originally posted by Herbert the turbot:
Fans of obscure 1980s indie may remember a song entitled "I can’t get Bouncing Babies by the Teardrop Explodes" by Chris Sievey and The Freshies.

Mr Sievey of course later found fame as Frank Sidebottom, until his untimely death last year.

http://www.irishtimes.com/blogs/screenwr...rdrop-explodes/
I was searching through ebay today and came across this unusual item:

http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/Frank-Sidebottom-s...=item35b13b9bb2

from which I also learned of the Frank Sidebottom Statue campaign:

http://www.franksidebottom.org.uk/site/