Letter about Toomorrow failure
I was not disappointed to TOO-read about the break-up of TOOMORROW. Surely the instigators of this group should have learnt a lesson from the last manufactured group, namely the Monkees. They managed to attain success for two years, but are now remembered as a bad joke.
The failure of the group’s film can be attributed to the trite, childish nature of the topic - the space adventures of Toomorrow indeed! The only musical film which has succeeded recently is “Woodstock” because of its atmosphere of honesty and pretentiousness.
I don’t think record buyers will be fooled again by an artificially-created group making the horribly obvious commercial music which characterised both of Toomorrow’s flop singles. Most of the groups in the NME Top 30 have had to wait and work hard for their present success.
I hope that the failure of Toomorrow will dissuade any more rich film producers from assembling a pop music group with a specific aim of making money rather than creating their own original musical ideas.
DEREK HARVEY, Headington, Oxford.