It was two Phils who turned me on to King Crimson guitarist Robert Fripp: Phil Codd at college who first played Another Green World by Brian Eno, featuring two of the most coruscating guitar solos by anyone, and former work collegue Phil Clarke who gave me a copy of The Concise King Crimson in about 1989. Blondie and Bowie should be in any sane person’s music collection of course, and both Talking Heads and David Sylvian either did release or has been releasing fascinating music for many years. I had to seek out The Roches for this broadcast.
Playlist
- DAVID BOWIE “Heroes”
from “Heroes” (1977) - BRIAN ENO St Elmo’s Fire
from Another Green World (1975) - PETER GABRIEL Here Comes The Flood
from Exposure (1979) - VAN DER GRAAF GENERATOR The Emperor In His War Room
from H to He, Who Am the Only One (1970) - THE ROCHES Hammond Song
from The Roches (1979) - BLONDIE Fade Away and Radiate
from Parallel Lines (1978) - TALKING HEADS I Zimbra
from Fear of Music (1979) - DAVID SYLVIAN Steel Cathedrals
from Alchemy: An Index of Possibilities (1985) - PORCUPINE TREE Nil Recurring
from Nil Recurring (2007)
First broadcast: 8 March 2015.
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