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Title: Zabadak Country:   France Issue: 1 Date: 1985 Rating: 9.0  Rate Collection:   I Own It     I Want It  Community:  1 Owns Price Guide: Valuation Page » Search eBay #AD  » Search Amazon #AD This site contains affiliate links for which we may be compensated.

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This first issue of Zabadak (#1 December 1985) was totally dedicated to DDDBM&T and briefly covered bits & pieces of most of their career within. We had a lot of fun making it though looking back now it is a bit rough & ready but there was an innocence & an enthusiasm which still lends a certain charm today. When Mario Sienknecht & I began this adventure (of producing a fanzine dedicated to DDDBM&T and running their Appreciation Society) we did have slightly higher expectations of what would happen. This is one of the reasons why copies (of this original issue #1) are still available today! Yes we thought that there would have been more fans out there! One of the initial problems was that the fanzine really probably came out a couple of years too late. The band had been slowly evolving into something that seemed to be set to achieve some sort of a reasonable “comeback success”. Between 1979 and 1983 (DD)DBM&T had released 6 singles ‘You’ve Got Me On The Run’, ‘In The Coven’, ‘Ballad Of Bulldog Bobby’, ‘Doo Wah Diddy’, ‘Xanadu (live H&V)’ and ‘Staying With It’ – with each indicating a certain continuing positive upward trend. Discussions had been ongoing also with Howard & Blaikley for a new song and there were quite a number of their unreleased demos (original songs) in the vaults awaiting finalisation & a possible album release. The scene had now been set for a Top 40 hit. But then after ‘Staying with It’ things frankly began to become really rather reversed because 1984′s Heartbreak Hotel covers LP then came out, then ‘Here We Go’ only ever happened in promo vinyl versions (Atlantic knocked it on the head and as boldly original as it was, it was the weakest single so far), plus ‘Matthew & Son’ for all its promise (fine production & performance) was never going to achieve much (a cover version without a UK release and with no Dave Dee in the band – plus almost 3 years after ‘Staying With It’!). Much of this interesting scenario is presented within #1.

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