After more than forty years of work in the music scene as a journalist, radio DJ, producer and more, I decided to celebrate my sixtieth birthday with a gift I had thought about for a very long time: a record as a singer. So I selected four songs I love fro m four Californian punk bands from the 70s (Lewd, Weirdos, Nuns and Flesh Eaters) and asked Plutonium Baby, a wonderful art punk combo from Rome (the city where I was born and live) with the perfect sound for what I had in mind, to be my partners in crime . An odd crime. I had no doubt they would get excited about the idea, and I was right. In a few weeks the songs were ready to be recorded and we did it in Romes most renowned rnr studio with the amazing help from the sound engineer Danilo Silvestri. "Yo u Said Id Never Make It" is my personal tribute to the musical style who made me who I am. Its not a joke (I swear, its really me singing), its not a first step of a new career (at least I dont think so). Its something I thought about a lot and in th e end I did it with great seriousness but without taking myself too seriously; and having a lot of fun too, also imagining the surprise on the faces of all those who know me personally, as a voice on the radio, as a writer. "You said Id never make it", eh ? Federico Guglielmi a/k/a Freddie Williams The 250 printed copies are all in pink vinyl and contained by a special cover in punk '77 style!