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I just love his voice im actually watching your old music omg leee john your amazing. I miss the eighties i have all your albums xx ❤❤

Legend in the British Soul industry

You are getting some reet guests stevie lad!

When does the full one of this drop stevie lad please?

I did not know what the Digging Your Scene was about. Thanks for enlightening me.

I love it when you interview an artist and they actually talk about their passion. Fascinating. Thanks so much , interviewer.

I'll go listen to the album :)

I had such a crush on her when Stop came out in 88 i was 13 and couldn't stop listening to it. She's great

No time has been good for a ring of child predators.

Seen shakatak at Birmingham jamhouse 2024 absolutely fantastic band after rehearsal Bill came and sat with me and my daughter which was very unexpected and we chatted about music in general simple minds level 42 etc.. lovely guy and fantastic musician and only £10 a ticket a great night

Tack!

What beautiful people You are! To me, Annie is a goddess. I really enjoyed listening to Your conversation. I wish there is a part two.

Regret nothing. You are still awesome.

I am reading his book now. He was a naught boy back in the day. Wolfgang seems like a wonderful person.

Thank you so much for doing these great interviews.

You rip my heart out! I love you

I have waited 30+ years for this S.K interview. Very candid. You got the “Killer” to open up. Amazing interview!

Fuck... Karl Wallinger died!? I should play Goodbye Jumbo tomorrow. All day long. I did enjoy the podcast though

If Roxette can do it, Fleetwood Mac should continue touring too! What are they going to do - sit at home in a rocking chair with blankets over their knees?

Easier Said Than Done ☑️

My favorite songwriters: Prince Paul Hardcastle Nick Martineli George Michael Andrew Ridgely Loose Ends Members Carl MacIntosh Steve Nichol Jane Eugene

I have always been a big fan of Loose Ends, 52nd Street, Five Star, Mr. Martineli

The drummings of this man in simple minds made me a musician

Even his name sounds good.

Absolute god.

What a fantastic band, so innovative..!! The music industry owes them a huge debt of gratitude.❤️

Lena is one of the underrated swedish artists.

She’s lovely.

Three bands that stood out for me in the 80's, amongst many others, were Prefab Sprout- Danny Wilson-Blue Nile.

Great interview. Possibly a full band/unplugged tour?

I found true ❤

Great songs 👍

Love you phil fearon and galaxy your'e not only no 1 your the only !!!

Excellent gig but I think he should consider doing a band tour next.

Was there any question about him working with Frida of ABBA?

Awwww this has just been wonderful watching. You girls grew up with all of us.....thank you. Also its kinda shotty you both didn't get to be guest artist's on her Celebration tour. You did spend the whole time making music with her. Crappy.

The one mistake she made was giving that great song to Nick Kamen, she should have recorded that herself, she would have had a monster stand alone single.

So nice to finally see Steve Lilywhite. I remember it to this day the first time I listened to Waterfront. I was in college & working in a gas station. (Petrol for you guys). It was a graveyard shift on a Sunday night. And the local radio station played Waterfront for the first time before the record was actually released. It might have been October or November of 1983. When Derek’s baseline started the song, the hairs on the back of my neck were raised. I knew then it was going to be a special song. Then Mel’s gargantuan drums kicked in and I was like : “Wow!! This is so fu**ing different than anything I have heard before!” …. By the way Steve, that Hashish you were smoking came from the land of the Taliban 😂.

Nice 1 steve, you get some reet guests! Lillywhites a genious!

That's Steve Blame, that is!!! God, I've missed Steve Blame...

Martins bass lines were perfection !

Kraftwerk are the best! I’ve seen them 3 times and loved every minute of it! Great stuff mate 😎🇦🇺

Brilliant interview, thank you! I remember being blown away by an interview Steve did with Your Computer magazine all the way back in 1984! Two Tribes - music and micros: Meirion Jones talks to the man who mixes them for Frankie. YOUR COMPUTER SEPTEMBER 1984 With frankie goes to Hollywood's new album due out in weeks Steve Lipson stares across a mixing desk into the void of a recording studio trying to improve on the great sounds he engineered for Relax and Two Tribes/War. At the console he strikes a pose worthy of Captain Kirk at the controls of the USS Enterprise but Steve is under no illusions that he's a man with a mission. "I don't want to be Mother Theresa", he says. "I am the person who is employed to help defraud the public - and rightly so - because if the public honestly believe what they see they deserve lo be defrauded. 'Frankie are nothing out of the ordinary. I've read articles which say they don't play on their records. This is a slight twist of the truth. In fact they play on their records then we make what they do better which is a perfectly logical thing to do. They're 20 years old - we're much older - we've had experience of making records and can make what they do sound a hundred times better. The artist becomes a performer. He's the guy who fronts the whole thing which is how it should he. If you have a tremendously good group to start with you limit the amount of input your production side can put in." Steve's fraud factory is Sarm Studios in London. Outside it looks like the shabby derelict warehouses you expect to find at the wrong end of the Portobello Road. The only clue to its true purpose is a couple of fans on the steps in large black and white Relax T- shirts. They look like a pair of lost zebras as they wait for a glimpse of their heroes. Inside, Steve Lipson is busy at the controls of his Sinclavier computer. Apart from the usual Qwerty keyboard and TV screen this has a 20 Megabyte hard disk storage unit - that's 500 times the capacity of a Commodore 64 - and a piano keyboard. Steve uses the Sinclavier mainly as a sampling machine. He can take any noise whether it's a bamboo cane hitting a shopping trolley or somebody hitting a snare drum then produce a sequence of sounds based on that to create a new instrument. Steve makes it sound very simple: "some geezer bangs a snare in the air. I get it to sound as wonderful as I can, stick it In the Sinclavier, organise it so that it's occupying as little space as possible for maximum effect and then proceed to sequence it. Then it is reverse compiled into script language." With his right hand Steve plays a bass line from Relax on the piano keyboard while his left hand on the Qwerty throws it on to screen as script language. On screen, phrases can be edited and repeated - just like word processing with sounds. Another stab at the keyboard shows the file catalogue for two of the tracks from the new album, Only Star in Heaven and Black Night, White Light. Steve keeps most of the 20 Megabyte memory in use most of the time, making back up copies of any material he does not need immediately so he can free space. It is reassuring to know that even with such expensive equipment things can go wrong. The cartridge machine which should make the back-up copies on to tape is malfunctioning so Steve is having to use floppy discs "and 20 Megabytes is something like 200 discs so it's hopeless." More and better equipment solves some problems but also creates new ones. "With Relax the problem was we were using an analogue tape recorder. Now we're using a digital - big difference." But on the new album "a lot of the bass sounds we're using now are two machines synchronized together which poses a great deal of problems." While Steve deals with the technical side producer Trevor Horn is the man with the golden ears who seems to know what the public want to hear. "I am working with the best producer around. I will be wording on a track for days and days and Trevor will walk in - he's very good at looking at the overview - and he'll say, 'No this track is rubbish, start again' . . . Trevor signed Frankie goes to Hollywood because he thought they were ridiculous - good singer but absolutely ridiculous. He had two attempts to recording them, both dismal failures. I got recommended to him - it's not what you know it's who you know - I started engineering and did Relax." The phone rings - oh no it's Trevor - but this time he is not asking for a track to be scrapped but just for a snare drum to be taken off one of the songs on the new album and replaced with another snare drum and a tambourine. If it's a simple part Steve can do that in a matter of minutes. "If t's a complicated part it could take me four or five hours. It's easy now but the very first time I did it, it took me a whole day." With a virtually unlimited budget for new equipment Steve can afford to dream of tomorrow's machines. 'You will have an infinite track tape recorder, you will record something and then be able to move It wherever you want to." But this will require new forms of computer storage - "hard disc is so primitive". Steve does not feel that the empires of the big recording studios are under threat from home computer-based systems using converted Commodore 64s and Midi compatible Yamaha CX-5s. 'Nothing is going to happen with all that stuff. Midi's useful but going to run out shortly. There will be a Midi 2." "8-bit sounds are unusable - the Fairlight's different because it has got a graunch noise of its own. It just lowers the quality of what we're going to be hearing. Very few people have got all the gear and then everyone else with their CX-5s and Commodore 64s will be struggling desperately hard with not really a hope in hell, apart from the odd genius."

Hes ace steve blame, dont know what he did before, someone said he used to host MTV news, is that right?

I feel I should go back over this and take notes - it was so insightful. Great work and much appreciated!

Wonder if he still washs his plates in the sink?

Freddie dumped this mooching bum for a good reason. He was a leach and a user!

Love ❤ it- D.C. Lee

Martin McAloon created exceptional boundary-stretching bass lines to exceptional songs with Prefab Sprout.

Dee C. Lee is just so gorgeous. I wish knew someone as nice as she is.