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Posted: **Mon 19 Sep 2005, 1:15 pm**

I think they might want to do it just as a stand against homophobia. Walt Disney was, and the Disney company has been accused for being homophobic...

Wasn't Elton still quiet about his sexual orientation when he did Lion King?

Posted: **Mon 19 Sep 2005, 1:17 pm**

jamie1978 wrote:Elton released the Lion King before the rise of the Neo-con right, though. There is a different political environment in the US now, post-Clinton.

Also, how many copies does the average Disney soundtrack sell anyway? The Lion King was a huge success, but it seems more like the exception than the rule. I can't remember any of the recent Disney films having hugely successful soundtracks.

I mean, for all this talk of increasing sales - every studio album apart from Release has sold more than 1,000,000 copies.

So, I really don't think there is anything to gain.

I think the Tarzan soundtrack was a reasonable success, but yes, the recent Disney movies haven't sold that much. I doubt very much that the political climate in the US has changed that much in the last 10 years, the US has always been a quite conservative country. Yes, Clinton was liberal, but both Houses were republican - so I don't think fear of neo-conservatives is a factor at all.

Besides that, I think it'll be interesting to see how PSB will do in the charts, six years after their last real hit (New York city boy).

Posted: **Mon 19 Sep 2005, 1:18 pm**

It's been 12 years since their last real hit (Go West).

Posted: **Mon 19 Sep 2005, 3:35 pm**

I remember in the OS someone greeting them for making a song for... "Scooby Doo 2"!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Posted: **Mon 19 Sep 2005, 3:37 pm**

I have pics of PSB in some Disney park.

In the 80s.

Posted: **Mon 19 Sep 2005, 6:13 pm**

psb-freak wrote:I have pics of PSB in some Disney park. In the 80s.

I have seen SOMEWHERE an embarrassing old photo of Neil (with 20 years old, more or less) with a T-shirt with the picture of Mickey Mouse on it.

Posted: **Mon 19 Sep 2005, 7:50 pm**

No... is there any other answer than that???

Posted: **Tue 20 Sep 2005, 1:58 am**

Yes, PSB have no principles blah...blah...so might as well write for Disney.

Come on, like they've never had bad ideas before. As for the idea that PSB are a musical band...Right, yeah? Closer to Heaven anyone? Has anyone forgotten the struggle this awful thing went through? Sure, it may be admirable, but I do believe we were invited to offer views.

It's still a stupid idea, though.

Mickey Mouse t-shirt! Now this is a wind up.

Posted: **Tue 20 Sep 2005, 9:10 am**

nickname wrote:
psb-freak wrote:I have pics of PSB in some Disney park. In the 80s.
I have seen SOMEWHERE an embarrassing old photo of Neil (with 20 years old, more or less) with a T-shirt with the picture of Mickey Mouse on it.

Do you have it somewhere ? Would like to see... Or if someone else has seen that too.

Posted: **Tue 20 Sep 2005, 1:05 pm**

psb-freak wrote:
nickname wrote:
psb-freak wrote:I have pics of PSB in some Disney park. In the 80s.
I have seen SOMEWHERE an embarrassing old photo of Neil (with 20 years old, more or less) with a T-shirt with the picture of Mickey Mouse on it.
Do you have it somewhere ? Would like to see... Or if someone else has seen that too.

It was in an old photo (I can't remember where it was), you could see clearly. It was very similar to this one (but it's not the same):

http://www.nationmaster.com/encyclopedi ... sb-843.jpg

Posted: **Tue 20 Sep 2005, 5:37 pm**

it's not unusual to wear stuff for ironic/subversive value.

Posted: **Tue 20 Sep 2005, 6:36 pm**

Are you sure it was Neil? I know Tom Watkins was obsessed with Mickey Mouse.

My, what a boring 1000th post that was.

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