DUFFO – GIVE ME BACK ME BRAIN 7″ – Nr MINT UK ROCK NEW WAVE

Duffo – Give Me Back Me Brain
(Beggars Banquet Records  1979  BEG15)
UK Pressing

Vinyl in Nr MINT condition

Sleeve in Nr MINT condition

Geoff “Jeff” Stephen Duff, or Duffo, (born 1956) is one of Australia’s most eccentric performers; he began his musical career in Melbourne in 1971 as lead singer of jazz-rock fusion band Kush, and later fronted various self-named groups. Duff relocated to London in 1978 as “the waif-like androgynous oddball Duffo”. His single, “Give Me Back Me Brain” peaked in the top 100 on the United Kingdom (UK) mainstream charts in 1979. He returned to Australia in Sydney in 1986 and continued performing and recording in various styles of music. His 1999 compilation, Martian Girls Are Easy is described by music historian, Ian McFarlane as showing “satirical, new wave origins of “Give Me Back Me Brain”, through the soulful classical arrangement of Lou Reed’s “Walk on the Wild Side”, dipping into funk on the way and then back to his glam roots.”

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