When Martin Fry was playing “fey electronic art-pop” in Middlesbrough, Suedeheads threw bottles
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- Опубликовано: 29 сен 2024
- ABC’s Lexicon Of Love came out in ’82 and Martin’s sent his gold lamé suit to the cleaners and setting out on a 40th Anniversary tour. There was a long period, he remembers, “when the ‘80s was considered plastic and soulless and then suddenly you discover you’re a legend”. This entertaining encounter looks back at his early life in Stretford, Bramhall and Sheffield and includes Jimi Hendrix, Mike & Bernie Winters, buying singles in the Stockport Woolies, Sly Stone, Alex Harvey, clubs full of Motown, crombies and brogues, hitchhiking to see the Jam, playing Sultanesque by Roxy Music 17 times on a pub jukebox, the Sex Pistols at the Lesser Free Trade Hall, how Trevor Horn made records and a brilliant analogy involving pop music and cheese.
ABC’s Lexicon of Love 40th Anniversary Tour is with the Southbank Sinfonia (conducted by Anne Dudley). UK dates here …
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Martin Fry is a real hero of mine!
TOTP 4/3/82 ABC, Tight Fit & Madness
The three of them talking 40 years earlier on Old Grey Whistle Test: ruclips.net/video/0i9ovQW1rPs/видео.html
What a fantastically astute and intelligent chap Martin is… I could listen to him all day!!!
Another reason Martin Fry looks much the same now as he did in the 1980s is that he didn't exactly look young back in the day...
Great guy, Fry. Superb episode.
David’s familiar pondering, this time re. Voodoo Chile (Slite Return) stopped short of one of his theories. Here’s mine. (Apologies if this is common knowledge amongst Jimi aficionados). The guitar effects pedal typically takes DC power. Combined with a voltage this gives V DC. And what of the later addition of SR? This may refer to the Slew Rate of the amplification. Hence, VDC (SR). Just an overelaborated thought. And he did have form in such acronyms: The STP with LSD.
Great stuff! It's true what Martin says about the risk taking involved when making jukebox selections!
Tears Are Not Enough
Could the phone going off and Martin not being able to stop it be more ironic?
Great,great episode!Martin Frey is a top guy who ticks on all great music knowledge boxes.The lexicon of love is such a classic masterclass in production and pop craftsmanship.
Middlesbrough is where performers go when they’re not good enough to die in Glasgow.
Elvis hated his famous gold suit he wore in 1957. It was designed by Nudie, the country music clothing designer.
Until today I never really listen to Martin Fry in interviews ... I totally enjoyed today's episode of Word in your Ear Good One Guys ✔️👍🏼⭐
How many people put Lexicon Of Love on, straight after this? Still sounds magnificent and a lot more politically nuanced than I remember, but that probably went over the head of 14 year old me. Great stuff, and what a nice bloke!
Listened it right through first time since 82 --- it's very good. Not as good as Wiki says people have rated it though - Top 100 UK Albums??? Nah.
@@mozdickson But of course, this shit can’t be measured. So you’ve got your criteria and so has everybody else. I think it’s up there for the record.
I put on 'There's A Riot Goin' On'
….also, bookended in reverse by There’s A Riot Going On and then What’s Going On?
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One of my first girlfriends introduced me to the ABC Lexicon of Love…. As such I’m eternally grateful to Fiona Tate!… she had just got the album and rather than “snogging in her bedroom” we listened to this… as they say.. “you win some and you loose some” 🤓… still in my playlist, but have to say my wife (not Fiona 🤭) can’t stand the album 🤔
Great episode. That Pistols poster must be valuable: one from the first gig sold recently at auction for £20k.
I've seen the future...I can't afford it
Tell you the truth, sir - someone just bought it.
starting going out with a girl in late '82 (we got married in 85 and still in love together) and her flatmate Trudy had the Lexicon. I'd been listening to The Jam, Heaven 17 and The Clash of late, but being a RnB funk lover in my teens I loved that ABC sound. New Zealand did - Number 1. Great yarn this! BTW that Roxy B Side - awful!
14:05 I live in St. Paul MN which is separated from Minneapolis by the Mississippi River (except NE Mpls is on the StP side). I understand perfectly what you mean.
How on earth does Danny Baker manage to row himself in to these things? Has he sold his soul?
Another wonderful chap.
Fry is a walking Pop Archetype!
Dr. Gerhard Lengeling - wrote the Apple marimba ringtone....sadly not Ryuchi
That Sly album is immense funk!
Two nights at Middlesbrough Rock Garden, Vice-Versa and Cowboys International. Punk audience as I recall, gobbing as they did in those days. Both shows went well. Memorable for me as it was my first gig there too.
I was a 90s teenager and I remember how everything 80s just looked and sounded naff for the decade. In the early 2000s I started buying loads of 80s records super cheap, they were considered totally worthless. It was a surprise to find so many incredible records.
And now most pop sounds like the 80s (though not as good)
‘I can’t go back to savoury now’ I thought you were interviewing John Shuttleworth
Great interview and Martin is such a nice guy- highly enjoyable❤️🩹
Superb! And thanks Martin Fry for mentioning The Sensational Alex Harvey Band.
First class 👍