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In a world that feels like itâs always "on," always strategizing, always serious⌠this hit different.
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Life isnât about avoiding pain. Itâs about finding beauty in the struggle. The thorns that prick our skin arenât here to break us â they mark the path to growth. You canât hold the rose without feeling the sting.
We grow stronger through the cuts, the bruises, the tears. They carve us into something extraordinary, shaping the beauty we have yet to discover in ourselves.
Itâs time you recognized the strength within you.
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You may remember in our recent interview with Kevin Godley that he mentioned a project heâd been working on called âHog Feverâ. Â Based on an original memoir by writer Richard La Plante - âHog Feverâ has found itself cleverly transported into the realm of an âEar Movieâ.
There isnât yet a dictionary term to describe an âEar Movieâ - itâs the first of itâs kind ; itâs innovative, itâs quirky, and itâs really VERY funny.
It certainly isnât your standard talking book, No - itâs much bigger than that!
Imagine yourself watching a movie on TV, with your eyes closed ... that experience comes close to âHog Feverâ - itâs a movie without pictures ... and it intrigued us from the moment we heard about it.
With an all star supporting cast which includes Oscar nominated actor Terence Stamp, Daniel Ash [Bahaus] , Kevin Godley [10cc], and Richard La Plante ; plus a soundtrack written especially for the story that includes new works by Godley, and La Plante.
We hope this is the first of many crazy instalments, and whilst we donât want to give too much away - we were curious to find out more about the man behind it all.
If we could add sound effects to this article, it would mainly be laughter ...
HR: Â I have to begin by asking how one manages to go from being the front man in a rock and roll band, to becoming a best selling author?
RLP: Â Who me? [laughs]Â
Well ... Â Iâll tell you.
We were a rock band called âRevengeâ, based on the east coast of the United States .
We had radio play; we were scheduled to go on tour, and it looked like we could become successful ...
I was living in London, England, at the time.
I went to New York to meet up with the band, and I got into a fight with the guitar players brother, because he wanted the guitar player to form his own band, and that would have got in the way of things ... so I broke his nose.
At which point, I was hustled off to the police station in cuffs, and he was ambulanced away, and that subsequently ended the band!
It cost me a considerable amount of money and 3 months of court appearances. Â
It was just one of those things that happened, you know? I didnât premeditate it - I just smacked him!
The case was eventually dismissed, but I ended up going back to London without any kind of a job, and I didnât know what I was going to do.
I still liked the idea of music, but thought that maybe I could just be an MTV video star, and never have to go on the road, never have to have another band! So I wrote a little thing for myself to star in.
It was going to be a martial arts adventure song - at the time I did quite a bit of martial arts.
I wrote the synopsis, but then couldnât figure out how I could get it financed to turn it into a video ; and by coincidence or luck or something, I ran into a Los Angeles film producer who had been involved with the movie âJawsâ.
He was in London producing a film called âWhite Nightsâ, which starred Mikhail Baryshnikov, the dancer.
I met him at a party, and he asked me what I did, and sort of out of embarrassment - because at the time I did nothing! - I said âWell Iâve written this video ...â so he asked about it and whilst I was selling it to him he said âyou know, that would make a feature for a filmâ. Â
I then went with him to Gold Crest films (it was post âChariots Of Fireâ, and in the days of âAbsolute Beginnersâ, and âMissionâ with Jeremy Irons , that era) and they bought it! With me as the star!!
I was going to do the music too, and I thought âMY GOD! Who needs a rock band, now Iâm going to be really major?!â
We wrote the screen play, we had a whole floor at Goldcrest, and we went off to Spain to recce all the filming locations ; and whilst we were away they released âAbsolute Beginnersâ which flopped, and âMissionâ which won a golden palm at Cannes, but didnât do anything commercially, and in the space of a month ... Goldcrest toppled.
So I was left once again, with nothing to do!
BUT - in the interim, a literary agent had sent my screen play to a book company and because they thought it was connected to a major film - I even had the posters announcing it at the film festival! - they paid me a ton of money to write the book.
I was never going to write a book in my life!
I wrote the thing with a pencil sat at a desk, all longhand!
I thought I was going to be a movie star, or a rock star, and I would hire ghost writers! Then I thought, âwell what the hell, I donât even have a jobâ Â - so that became my job. After that I wrote books, and they worked.
I never really thought as myself as a successful novelist, but now that I look back and see other people trying I see that I did have a really successful career as a novelist, and memoirist ... so that is how I got started. A writer by default!
A writer who wanted to be a rock star, and a rock star who wanted to be a movie star - with no apparent credentials for any of them, other than having a big mouth!!
HR : [laughs] So Where do bikes fit in?
RLP: Â Oh - I had a bike when I was 16, a Norton. An English bike! I got arrested on the Norton for drunk driving it along the sidewalk in Atlanta Georgia. I was always in trouble, period, but motorcycles were part of my image.
When I got to London, and Harleys started to be popular, I had always wanted a Harley. They were so beautiful to me, like metal sculptures. I think it was 1987 I got my first, and then I just wanted to customise them. I probably had well over $100000 invested in the one in âHog Feverâ - that bike was built between Fred Ward and the Hells Angels.
The president of the Hells Angels had an accident and wrecked it right in front of me! So he rebuilt it, and then I rebuilt it over and over again until it was bought by a guy in Texas who put it in a museum ; when he died I bought it back.
Bikes have always been a big part of my life ... and Iâve done my share of pilgrimages ...
HR : âHog Feverâ Â was a memoir you wrote, about the biker lifestyle, which youâve now turned into an âEar Movieâ - a film without images - what gave you the inspiration to do that?
RLP:  The âear movieâ started as a screen play  ...
Kevin Godley and I were introduced by a British film producer and that guy for some reason thought that my memoir âHog Feverâ - which was a big cult hit - would make a great movie.
It had really great reviews, and I had travelled all over the USA, the UK and Ireland promoting it - It was sort of a send up of myself, as this mid-life urban biker who knew NOTHING about bikes, but who knew everything about how to look good on one! It was about me spending all my money on customising this motorcycle, and I hardly knew how to take a corner on it. It was more âmemoir of a poserâ!
I eventually learned to ride the bike ...
So Kevin had got his hands on it and had thought of an angle to do the screen play. Â
Of course I had heard of 10CC, and every time I turned on the TV in the 80s there they were on Top Of The Pops, so I felt pretty honoured that this rock god would be interested in something I had written.
So we hadnât met in person at first, only talked on the phone, when he sent me some pages which were very funny.
He has a brilliant wit - heâs very quirky with his humour. Iâm generally the funny man, but Iâm like the straight man to Kevin! I write the straight stuff and Kevin makes it go crazy. Â
So we started writing the screen play together, and this producer was going to produce it, and everybody and their uncle was going to direct it - it was very impressive, but the money never came along.
Kevin and I had a couple of meetings but it was the same old story - everybody is going to do it, and then it never gets done, and after a considerable amount of time it really just vanished.
Kevin and I spoke sporadically but we stopped working on it.
Then about 4 years ago I started a publishing company [Escargot Books] because I was getting all my old copyrights; knew I could make some money on my old books, and I decided to do some audio books.
So I decided that I would record âHog Feverâ. I hired a little studio in this tiny little town that I live in, and I got three days in to it and I thought âthis is boring the hell out of me!â, and I just didnât want to read any more.
I didnât want to do it, but I thought that there had to be some way of making it more entertaining, and I thought of the screenplay.
I got home that very night and called Kevin and said âhow about doing âHog Feverâ, as like an audio play - like an old radio play?â and he said âYou mean an Ear Movie?â. I said âExactly! An ear movie! We can do sound effects, we can do rock n roll, and a full soundtrack - like a movie without any pictures!â
And we were off! Kevin wrote it really quickly - he took the old screen play and adapted it so fast -
I was getting an episode every other day ...
My friend Terence Stamp was here at the time, and he introduced me to this record producer that he was working with. We went in to him with a couple of pages of what Kevin had written, and fooled around playing all the parts that were written on the pages and this guy said âthis is the funniest thing I have ever heard - Iâd love to be involvedâ
But thatâs a whole other story, his involvement, because he ended up stealing the tapes and it cost us a lot of money to get them back!
So that is the origin of how I became a writer not a rock star and then a maker of ear movies!
HR : How difficult was it to produce?
RLP: Â Well we kind of made it up as we went along, and Kevin did a wonderful job in the studio. As you get into episodes 3, 4 and 5, when it starts to layer with sounds and music - I would be so excited when heâd send me an episode, I would put the head phones on and listen - and it was mixed like a rock and roll album.
Sometimes I wonder if we could ever do it again, but I think we could ...
HR : Kevin Godley says that people thought the screen play was âa bit f***in weirdâ - but itâs essentially part of your life story theyâre talking about  ...
RLP: Â [laughs] It is essentially based on my life, yes - the âHog Feverâ memoir.
Some of the episodes are absolutely true ... however  ... some of them have been reinterpreted and exaggerated.
Itâs reality based, but Kevin put a surreal paintbrush to it. But I think thatâs the best art anyway.
The best lie is always based on a bit of truth, isnât it?
Thatâs how Kevin and I work together - I tell the truth, and Kevin turns it into a surreal truth ... he takes my reality and elaborates upon it, and thatâs where we really become a two headed monster in a way.
Iâm the research arm, and Kevin is the guy who takes the research to extremes!
HR : Are you contemplating something new?
RLP: Â Well ... Â Robert Lords may well emerge from a 20 year coma! Iâm on another research mission.
HR : I donât want to give too much away to potential listeners, but if you hadnât have bumped into Billy Idol  - who would have been your ideal riding companion?
RLP: Â It HAD to be Billy Idol! When I was in the rock band, I was pretty and blonde haired, and I loved his stuff.
I wouldnât say that he was my alter ego, but I would look at him and wished thatâs how we could sound.
Billy has that rock and roll fantasy quality, he wasnât quite real was he, you know? with the lip and the chains ...
HR : You still play guitar, and compose songs - Â
RLP: Â I do, I do, I play every day ...
HR : How much of the music did you write for Hog Fever?
RLP: Â 5 songs are mine -2 are songs that my band recorded that were never released, and 3 that I wrote just for âHog Feverâ.
Kevin wrote 4 or 5, Terence Stamp sings one, and then Daniel Ash [ex Bauhaus] has one on there too called âFlame Onâ - he plays two of the character parts too.
Daniel is a good friend of mine that lives nearby - heâs a real rocker, and a real biker, although Iâve never known anyone like him - he has about 40 bikes!
To have him be a part of this, with Kevin - itâs special ...
The sound track is available with the âEar Movieâ actually.
I donât know what to tell you to expect, you know? Thereâs really only one way to find out, and thatâs give it a go!
Hog Fever is available from Amazon and Blackstone Audio - the soundtrack is available at CD Baby, and all the usual digital stores.
Richard LaPlante can currently be found here at https://www.richardlaplante.com/
Heâs giving away his latest book âReal Strengthâ - it includes a guide to the lost art of breathing, amongst other things.