Actors and Klaus... actors and Klaus! My god he loved them and they did also love him. I think he admired their talent for expressions and voice use, and they did like his abilities for making the phrase of music say something emotional.

Many already know of the close friendship which Klaus struck up with the classical actor Dennis Waterman. Dennis was too a great singer (who made his greatest characters 'Terry Minder' sing a song at the beginning of every time his show was on.) Klaus was to have produced his album but Fabien Mitterrand made it impossible (another time I will explain).

But this was not his only great friendship of the stage (Klaus not Dennis). He became close also with Anthony Booth in the late sixties. (Anthony was a great Shakespearean player and made political speeches on the Royal National Theatre of England and Wales.) He almost recorded a song which Klaus made only for him called Wonderful Kiss, Marvellous Eyes. This too, it is shame to say, did not get as far as acetate though it was slated for Elektrische Lippen before Futafusion refused to pay his fee (Anthony not Klaus).

Later in more like the late seventies, a young actor called Trevor Eve (famous for his TV show called Shoelace) contacted Klaus, interested in writing a funk-opera version of Hamlet. Klaus agreed readily and they worked for a very long weekend putting soliloquies to funky riffs with Trever Eve at the microphone. Inspired partly by brandy, his extemporaneous vocal style was terribly interesting and much like a cross between Yoko Ono and early Rap music.

Unfortunately Trevor Eve's theatrical agent at that time was not happy with his image singing funk, preferring a more laid back jazzy style. To this day he has never made a decent album.

Anyway. I shall leave now to eat some Wagon Wheels. Mandy found them for me at Asda. And there was Pupu saying that they no longer made Wagon Wheels. There is a storm brewing here - I am most certain of this.

Peace,

Jan Sink