Elton Motello
Jet Boy Jet Girl (dodgy modern composite 'safe mix')
Other than the first Jet Bronx & The Forbidden single, the Elton Motello 7" has to be the most common of the Lightning punk singles, right? Still see it everywhere, even today. But hang on, things aren't that simple. Firstly, you're going to need this super-rare 'porno' sleeve version, obviously pressed outside of the UK (it's got a big hole, for one thing): no-one knows when exactly it was made (or why, or by whom) and even Elton Motello didn't know about it until I sent him a scan recently. Thing is, it's definitely from 'then', no later than 1978. Then you're going to need the airplay-edited promo, with refs to 'blood', 'penetrate' and 'gives me head' replaced by less offensive terms (thing is, although this version is pretty much identical-looking to the normal issue, so damned tough to spot, it's by far the best version, with a vocal and mix only ever-so-slightly different but unquestionably better). I was suprised to find this third version, short & with bits of both, apparently being used on at least one modern CD 'anthology'.
Gawd knows how many different sleeves there are for the various 'foreign' pressings (and, fair play, most of Europe gave "Jet Boy" a good crack of the whip, with Canada even deciding it was a dance record and knocking out a seven-minute super-edit which, by the way, is truly dreadful): I'm sticking to the UK variants.
