Do you know Hanif Kureishi's The Buddha of Suburbia (1990) quotes the Third Ear Band?

 

Do you know that a great novel as Hanif Kureishi's "The Buddha of Suburbia", published in England in 1990 by Faber & Faber, quotes the Third Ear Band at the beginning (page 10)?

He writes:

"(...) Mum often said Eva was a vile show-off and big-mouth, and even I recognized that Eva was slightly ridiculous, but she was the only person over thirty I could talk to. She was inevitably good-tempered, or she was being passionate about something. At least she didn't put armour on her feelings like the rest of the miserable undead around us. She liked the Rolling Stones's first album. The Third Ear Band sent her. She did Isadora Duncan dances in our front room and then told me who Isadora Duncan was and why she'd liked scarves. Eva had been to the last concert the Cream played. In the playground at school before we went into our classrooms Charlie had told us of her latest outrage: she'd brought him and his girlfriend bacon and eggs in bed and asked them if they'd enjoyed making love."

 

In the book, a wonderful fresco of London in the Sixties through the eyes of an English/Indian young, there are also some quotations of popular music's bands/musicians as Soft Machine, Kevin Ayers, Syd Barrett, Pink Floyd; rock magazines as Melody Maker and New Musical Express; songs as "Come Together," "Greensleaves"...

 

Unfortunately, however, in the Italian translation by the otherwise talented Ivan Cotronero (p. 17), who was clearly unaware of who they were, the Third Ear Band clumsily becomes “the band of Third Ear”...

 

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