Dear Lydia

Infobox Single
Name = Dear Lydia
Artist = Reverend and The Makers
from Album = The State Of Things
Released = 2007
Format = CD
Recorded = 2006 Sheffield UK
Genre = Indie, Funk, Electro
Length = 2:37
Label = Wall of Sound | Wall of Sound (record label)
Chart position = * #N/A UK
Last single = "He Said He Loved Me" (2007)
This single = "Dear Lydia" (2007)
Next single = N/A

"Dear Lydia" is the third and final single by Reverend and The Makers from their debut album The State Of Things. The single is to be released on December 31, 2007 on limited edition 1000 only 78s .

Inspiration

"Dear Lydia" tells a story of a man in love trying to get the girl.

Trivia

"Dear Lydia" was almost lost forever in the Sheffield floods of June 2007, but 1000 copies on 78s were saved. The b-side "Everybody Hates Ryan" is a mash of other peoples work stuck together. Beatles references galore, sung in the style of Ian Brown with the backing track being taken nearly solely from a well known Marmite advert. Again like on the first single release John Cooper Clarke helps out with his poem about a man's shoes breaking in the rain and him needing to get an emergency pair.

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Tracklisting

78 rpm:
** A. "Dear Lydia"
** B1. "Everybody Hates Ryan"
** B2. "Dead Men's Shoes" (with John Cooper Clarke)

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