In no particular order some of my favourite music moments. No 15 Lenny Valentino by The Auteurs.
Perhaps the best known song by musical maverick Luke Haines, Lenny Valentino was taken from the Auteurs second album Now I’m A Cowboy.
With highly literate lyrics which set it apart from much of the laddish Britpop movement, Lenny V’s central conceit involves potty-mouthed 1960s US comic Lenny Bruce overdosing and waking up in the body of early Hollywood matinee idol Rudolph Valentino.
Parklife, it ain’t.
A singular artist, Haines can be frustrating, sarcastic, caustic and snide, but he’s never less than interesting – and Lenny Valentino is the perfect starting point for discovering his considerable body of work, both solo and with Black Box Recorder.
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