{"id":35,"date":"2004-05-15T19:29:46","date_gmt":"2004-05-15T09:29:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.thunderguy.com\/erasure\/wp\/2005\/05\/15\/the-andy-bell-story\/"},"modified":"2010-02-01T18:07:30","modified_gmt":"2010-02-01T08:07:30","slug":"the-andy-bell-story","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thunderguy.com\/erasure\/2004\/05\/15\/the-andy-bell-story\/","title":{"rendered":"The Andy Bell story"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Andy&#8217;s full name is Andrew Ivan Bell. He was born on 25 April 1964. Jumping ahead to the early eighties, Andy was in a group called <cite>The Void<\/cite> for about two weeks; he then split off with the bass player, Pierre Cope, to form their own band, <em>Das Baume<\/em> (German for <em>The Trees<\/em>). Later they changed the name to <cite>Dinger<\/cite>, that being Andy&#8217;s nickname for obvious reasons. They didn&#8217;t last long either, but played a few gigs in pubs and so on. They also released one single (<cite>Air of Mystery<\/cite>). It wasn&#8217;t long after that Andy auditioned for Vince Clarke&#8217;s new musical venture, and history was made.<br \/>\nIn 1994 he played Judy Garland in a play called <cite>The Night We Buried Judy Garland<\/cite>, which was a musical about gay rights. The play ran for a month at the Shaw Theatre in London, but Andy was only in it for a week. He was one of many people who played the part of Judy during the course of the performance. He sang seven Judy Garland songs; no official recordings have been released, but Mute Records apparently has a recording of <cite>Reckless<\/cite> in their vaults.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Andy&#8217;s full name is Andrew Ivan Bell. He was born on 25 April 1964. Jumping ahead to the early eighties, Andy was in a group called The Void for about two weeks; he then split off with the bass player, Pierre Cope, to form their own band, Das Baume (German for The Trees). Later they [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[2],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thunderguy.com\/erasure\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thunderguy.com\/erasure\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thunderguy.com\/erasure\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thunderguy.com\/erasure\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thunderguy.com\/erasure\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=35"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/thunderguy.com\/erasure\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thunderguy.com\/erasure\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=35"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thunderguy.com\/erasure\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=35"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thunderguy.com\/erasure\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=35"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}