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2 unusual facts about Nikki Sudden


Anthony Thistlethwaite

After a year busking in Paris, playing tenor saxophone around the streets of the Latin Quarter, in 1980 Thistlethwaite moved to London and in 1981 he played saxophone on Robyn Hitchcock's Groovy Decay album as well as Nikki Sudden's Waiting on Egypt.

Green Shield Stamps

Nikki Sudden wrote a song called "Green Shield Stamps" for his last official album "The Truth Doesn't Matter" - It describes his childhood in Britain, and that his mum used to save the green shield stamps.


Swell Maps

Consisting of brothers Epic Soundtracks (real name Kevin Paul Godfrey) and Nikki Sudden (real name Adrian Nicholas Godfrey) two Solihull based teenagers, plus Biggles Books (Richard Earl), Phones Sportsman (David Barrington), John "Golden" Cockrill and Jowe Head (Stephen Bird), the band cut the single "Read About Seymour" as their debut in 1977, soon after the brothers left Solihull School (also home of Spizzenergi).


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