Flame On

I'm sure I read somewhere that Captain America, the band formed by Eugene Kelly and friends after the Vaselines broke up, only recorded the one single before they had to change their name after being threatened with legal action by Marvel Comics. A little further research suggests that not only was there another single before this one but that the name change was prompted more by 'fear of' than by any actual legal action - as was the decision to issue the second pressing in a sleeve that didn't parody the C&A logo. Slightly less subversive all round. Still it's a very good single, well worth a couple of quid if you should, say, come across it in your local Oxfam shop. My copy is in very good nick, if you discount the fact that someone has written 802 across the front with a big marker pen (I rather like it, actually) - definitely a somewhat unique cataloguing system...


Actually the Human Torch's catchphrase, of course...