I'm in Canada - West Coast - Vancouver. I first heard Yello in 1983. A friend owned You've Gotta Say Yes to Another Excess. I inhaled that album and went on exhaling it for years. And then I heard Bananas to the Beat. Not a day has gone by in the last 15 years that I haven't thought of the knuckle beat that starts off that song. I'm also prone to eccentricity, for example: I've been wondering how much of a role Chocolate has played in Dieter's and Boris's creativity over the years.... Hmmm. I've collected everything I've been able to find of Yello, mostly on 12" vinyl, stopping about 7 years ago when Zebra came out. Nothing I've got, though, seems to be extraordinary enough to post on the server :-( Nobody I ever ask knows who Yello is until I mention Oh Yeah, The Secret of My Success, Ferris Bueller's Day Off. Then they say... wait for it... "Oh, Yeah... I know them". And only one other friend of mine is a Yello fan. So it's nice to be on a list where everyone knows the same thing and doesn't mind talking about the finer points. - R. F. -----Original Message----- From: graeme [mailto:graeme.fishwick@ntlworld.com] Sent: Tuesday, July 08, 2003 2:39 AM To: yello@mailman.xmission.com Subject: [Yello] where are we all from? Hi group.....just a quick mail to ask where we are all from and how we became interested in the godfathers......I am from north east england 30 yrs old and became interested in yello back in 1988 (unknown to me before then) when I heard The Race on the radio...ever since I have collected everything that I could lay my hands on including a duplicate of "you know who" on 7".....mail me privately if anyone is interested in buying....don't want to put it onto ebay as I know here that we are all fans...never know with ebay... Thanks..Graeme