“Richard is a pompous dick from my experience.” Coyne said, “We were supposed to record Top Of The Pops with him, but he cancelled at the last minute. Perhaps he sensed a punch-up backstage.”
The Flaming Lips were on the show to promote their latest album ‘At War With The Mystics’, while Richard Ashcroft was scheduled to perform a song from his third solo album ‘Keys To The World’.
- Source: Noise11, by Paul Cashmere