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Central Park In The Dark written and arranged by Charles Ives in 1906, recorded in 1951 by the Polymusic Chamber Orchestra conducted by Will Lorin https://music.apple.com/ca/album/central-park-in-the-dark/924426297?i=924426298

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At the conclusion of World War II, noted British journalist George Orwell wrote his prophetic novel Nineteen Eighty-Four. This dark dystopian tale foretells a future for humanity polarized by the victors of the six year long global conflict Orwell had reported on; the communist Soviet block and the allied group of nations led by the United States and Great Britain. 

In choosing a title for his novel, Orwell simply inverted the final two digits of the year in which he completed his book, 1948.

And so 1948 became 1984

In 1973, on the 25th anniversary of the novel, David Bowie, having just completed his tenure in the lead role as intergalactic rock star Ziggy Stardust, was hungrily looking for a new project to busy himself with. 

Bowie set out to create a multi-media adaptation of Orwell’s Nineteen Eighty-Four, complete with a West End stage production, an accompanying album, and a film/TV broadcast, all inspired by the post apocalyptic, paranoid vision of Orwell’s book.

In preparation for the project, Bowie had his office approach Orwell’s widow and estate executor, Sonia Orwell, in order to secure the theatrical rights. She flatly refused, stating that she strongly disliked Bowie’s production ideas and considered the entire concept in poor taste.

A clearly deflated Bowie was furious about the rejection and targeted Orwell directly in interviews at the time. Speaking to writer Ben Edmonds of Circus magazine, Bowie complained:

"Mrs. Orwell refused to let us have the rights, point blank. For a person who married a socialist with communist leanings, she was the biggest upper-class snob I've ever met in my life. 'Good heavens, put it to music?' It really was like that." 

After being denied the rights, Bowie staged what he called The 1980 Floor Show, a theatrical rock musical filmed over three days, October 18–20, 1973, at the Marquee Club in Soho, London. The event was later broadcast in the United States by NBC on November 16, 1973, as an episode of The Midnight Special.

Undaunted, Bowie salvaged much of the material he had already written for his adaptation of Nineteen Eighty-Four and repurposed it into his 1974 “concept” album Diamond Dogs, very loosely based on Orwell’s novel.

A decade later, after the Bowie debacle, British  film director and screenwriter Michael Radford turned his gaze towards making a movie of Orwell’s novel, a project he felt he could film hastily in 1983 in time for a 1984 release.

Securing the film rights to the novel proved much easier for Radford than it had been for Bowie. After the death of Orwell’s widow Sonia Orwell three years earlier in 1980, American lawyer Marvin Rosenblum purchased the film rights to the novel. Rosenblum, eager to get the film produced, agreed to become an executive producer for Radford’s project while producer Simon Perry raised the production money from Richard Branson of Virgin Group.

Ironically, Branson’s Virgin Films, who financed the film, commissioned Annie Lennox and Dave Stewart of the British rock Eurythmics to produce music for the soundtrack after initially approaching, (wait for it!) DAVID BOWIE!! who reportedly demanded a fee so high Virgin declined to pay it.

Director Radford objected to Virgin's insistence on using the electronic music of the Eurythmics. He had already arranged for a traditional orchestral score for the film that had been completed a few months earlier by composer Dominic Muldowney.

Against Radford's wishes, Virgin exercised their right of final cut and replaced Muldowney's music cues with the Eurythmics contributions. However, Muldowney's main theme music, particularly the state anthem for Oceania, is still prominently heard throughout the film.

42 years later, The GXO Podcast is proud to present Annie Lennox in...

THE 1984 SHOW: DYSTOPIA REVISITED 

An aural journey through the lens of George Orwell’s 1948 novel Nineteen Eighty-Four, Michael Radford’s 1984 film of the same name and the music of legendary Scottish soul singer dame Annie Lennon and her Eurythmics partner Dave Stewart.

*THE MUSIC 

I Did It Just The Same https://music.apple.com/ca/album/i-did-it-just-the-same/714191945?i=714192080

Come Together https://music.apple.com/ca/album/come-together/257483133?i=257489351

For The Love Of Big Brother https://music.apple.com/ca/album/for-the-love-of-big-brother/714191945?i=714192084

Sisters Are Doin' It For Themselves https://music.apple.com/ca/album/sisters-are-doin-it-for-themselves-et-mix/257483133?i=257486139

Sexcrime (Nineteen Eighty-Four) https://music.apple.com/ca/album/sexcrime-nineteen-eighty-four/714191945?i=714192083

Greetings From A Dead Man https://music.apple.com/ca/album/greetings-from-a-dead-man/714191945?i=714192087

Missionary Man https://music.apple.com/ca/album/missionary-man/268544278?i=268544677

Don't Let It Bring You Down https://music.apple.com/ca/album/dont-let-it-bring-you-down/265094141?i=265094253

Money Can't Buy It https://music.apple.com/ca/album/money-cant-buy-it/258646635?i=258647010

It's Alright (Baby's Coming Back) https://music.apple.com/ca/album/its-alright-babys-coming-back/268544278?i=268544390

Ministry Of Love https://music.apple.com/ca/album/ministry-of-love/714191945?i=714192103

Under Pressure (Rehearsal, April 20, 1992, Freddie Mercury Tribute Concert for Aids Awareness, Wembley Stadium, to honor Queen's Freddie Mercury after his death, raise critical awareness for the HIV/AIDS crisis, and help launch the Mercury Phoenix Trust)

Hello I Love You https://music.apple.com/ca/album/hello-i-love-you/257483133?i=257486294

Julia https://music.apple.com/ca/album/julia/714191945?i=714192096

Legend In My Living Room https://music.apple.com/ca/album/legend-in-my-living-room/258646635?i=258646972

Fragile (live at the Stockholm Concert Hall, Sweden, June 15, 2017, in honor of Polar Music Prize winners Sting and Wayne Shorter)

I Put A Spell On You https://music.apple.com/ca/album/i-put-a-spell-on-you/1440853903?i=1440854173

Lullay Lullay https://music.apple.com/ca/album/lullay-lullay-coventry-carol/1532215136?i=1532216413

Doubleplusgood https://music.apple.com/ca/album/doubleplusgood/714191945?i=714192099

Why? - For Gaza (Together For Palestine) https://music.apple.com/ca/album/why-for-gaza-together-for-palestine/1840393792?i=1840393808

Put A Little Love In Your Heart duet with the Rev. Al Green https://music.apple.com/ca/album/put-a-little-love-in-your-heart-duet-with-annie-lennox/1443999812?i=1444000010

Universal Child https://music.apple.com/ca/album/universal-child-feat-african-childrens-choir/1532215136?i=1532215139

Portions of this aural presentation utilize the immeasurable talents of film director, screenwriter Michael Radford, the music of Dominic Muldowney, as well as actors John Hurt (Alien, The Elephant Man) and Richard Burton in his final film role.

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Join us in episode 117 of the GXO Podcast as we prove our case in the court of contemporary music that everything old is new again and everything new is old through 60 years of electronic music.

*THE MUSIC

1985 Rock Me Amadeus (Salieri Mix) by Falco

2013 Giorgio By Moroder by Daft Punk

1969 Looky Looky by Giorgio Moroder

1972 Underdog by Giorgio Moroder

1972 Watch Your Step by Giorgio Moroder

1972 Automation by Giorgio Moroder

1969 Mother Popcorn (You Got To Have A Mother For Me) by James Brown 

1969 Pop Corn by Gershon Kingsley

1972 Pop Corn by Hot Butter (Stan Free)

1967 Soul Finger by The Bar-Kays

1968 Bonnie And Clyde by Serge Gainsbourg and Brigitte Bardot

1969 Je t'aime moi non plus by Serge Gainsbourg and Jane Birkin

1975 Love To Love You Baby by Donna Summer

1971 Jungle Fever by Chakachas

1973 Jungle Boogie Kool & The Gang

1977 I Feel Love by Donna Summer

1977 Medley: Star Wars (12" Version) by Meco

1977 Ben's Death and Tie Fighter Attack by The Electric Moog Orchestra

1978 Sing Sing by Gaz (Thor Baldursson)

1979 Pop Muzik by M (Robin Scott)

1980 Coming Up (recorded Summer 1979) by Paul McCartney

1982 Blade Runner (Main Titles) by Vangelis

1978 Last Dance (Live At Universal Amphitheatre, Los Angeles) by Donna Summer

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Amidst the persistent haze of the “anything goes”, hedonistic Free Love swinging 60s, with its culture of excess and casual debauchery, it was easy to lose sight of the fact that James (Not Jimbo) Morrison was suffering, very publicly, from an incurable disease.

Alcoholism.

Even his closest friends and associates, members of The Doors, keyboardist Ray Manzarek, guitarist Robby Krieger, and drummer John Densmore, didn’t recognize at the time that alcohol was slowly killing their friend right before their eyes. Night after night, town after town, amidst the backdrop of skewed innocence and the newly emerging riches of the Rock N Roll lifestyle, Jim Morrison was dying.

Years later, when amateur American anthropologist filmmaker Oliver Stone turned his lens upon the Mythology of the Man in the Black leather pants, surviving members of The Doors would work (and ultimately quit their positions) as Special Advisors To The Filmmaker. When Stone began taking liberties with the truth, making stuff up, all three abandoned the project.

In his fictional account of The Doors, director Stone erroneously depicts a clearly flustered Jim Morrison storming out of class because his instructor and fellow students neither liked nor understood his student film. Morrison, the highly romanticized lead character in Stone’s epic tale, presented stereotypically as the rebellious lone wolf protagonist, quits school to live freely amidst the sun and fun of sandy Venice Beach and all the scantily clad teenage girls who call it home.

The only problem with this scenario is that it is not true. Except for the part about Venice Beach and the half naked girls. That came later.

Jim Morrison graduated from George Washington High School in Alexandria, Virginia, in 1961, later earning a bachelor's degree in theater arts (cinematography/film), graduating with a Bachelor of Arts (B.A.) from UCLA the University of California Los Angeles in 1965. 

Previous to earning his degree at UCLA, Morrison had also studied at St. Petersburg Junior College in St. Petersburg/Clearwater, Florida, from 1961 until 1962 before transferring to Florida State University in Tallahassee, Florida, in the fall of 1962 before transferring to UCLA.

James (Not Jimbo) Morrison was an intellectual. A thinker. A published poet. And a student of 19th century French teen poet Arthur Rimbaud, so much so that he took time out from his highly publicized Rock N Roll lifestyle to write a humble note of thanks to a 60 year old devout scholar of 19th century French literature.

Morrison wrote to Duke University professor Wallace Fowlie regarding his English translations of teen poet Arthur Rimbaud. In his 1968 letter, Morrison thanked Wallace Fowlie and wrote: 

"I read French but not too easily and I needed your translation. I am a rock singer and your book travels with me wherever I go."

Additionally, Morrison was a visionary futurist. Sixty years ago he predicted the future of popular music, computerized “one man band” electronic music and DJ culture that would rely heavily on electronics, tapes, and machines, envisioning:

 "one person with a lot of machines, tapes, and electronics set up, singing or speaking and using machines." 

In a 1969 interview with journalist Jerry Hopkins for Rolling Stone magazine, Morrison further reflected on the evolution of Rock N Roll.

He noted that traditional rock was "kind of dying out" as artists returned to blues and country roots and theorized that a new generation would emerge combining these roots with a third, electronic component. 

His description eerily foreshadowed the rise of solo electronic music producers, DJs, and hip-hop artists who can act as an entire band using a computer or electronic setup.

This exact interview quote was later popularized when electronic artist Skrillex sampled Morrison's voice in the 2012 Break’n A Sweat collaboration with the surviving members of The Doors.

Tragically though, Jim Morrison was also a drunk. A very public drunk. One who drank on the job. Continuously. And it was slowly killing him.

And so the dichotomy of the two selves of James Douglas Morrison was born.

Jimbo The Drunk

and

James The Scholar

James The student

James The poet

James The intellectual

James The thinker 

James The man

Today, on the latest episode of The GXO Podcast, we’re delighted to have this unique opportunity to introduce you to the insights and thoughtful musings of a wonderfully talented and engaging young man;

Accomplished, sensitive, hopeful and well spoken.

We give you James (Not Jimbo) Douglas Morrison: 20th Century Artist. Human Being.

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Episode 115 Rimbaud: Dirty, Rude, Scummy, Drunk, Teenage Genius.

Was he a visionary poet or a victim of exploitation? This week, we expose the volatile, scandal-ridden affair between veteran Parisian poet Paul Verlaine and his 16 year old protégé, Arthur Rimbaud. 

We’re diving into the wreckage of a two year relationship defined by obsession, public scandal, and a point-blank gunshot that changed literature forever. 

In this episode:

* The power dynamics of a decade long age gap.

* The dark reality behind the tumultuous affair

* The aftermath: Who pulled the trigger, who ended up behind bars, and was justice actually served?

It’s a masterclass in genius, depravity, and the thin line between art and crime. Don’t miss the most controversial chapter of 19th-century poetry yet. 

Listen now

*THE MUSIC

Late Show by Laurie Anderson https://music.apple.com/ca/album/late-show-live/358043598?i=358043634 performed live by Anderson (keyboards, tape violin), Adrian Belew (guitar), Richard Landry (saxophone) and William S. Burroughs (vocal sampling) from her album Home Of The Brave. 

In the performance of this piece of music Laurie Anderson utilizes the tape-bow violin, a custom built instrument Anderson created in 1977 that replaces a traditional horsehair bow with a bow strung with pre-recorded magnetic audio tape.

The bow is strung with a strip of pre-recorded reel-to-reel magnetic audio tape instead of horsehair. A tape recorder playback head is mounted in the bridge or body of the violin. As Anderson draws the bow across the strings, the tape passes over the playback head, letting her play, repeat, reverse, or stutter spoken words, environmental sounds and music.

"Is Everybody In?" by William S. Burroughs & The Doors from the 2000 tribute album Stoned Immaculate: The Music Of The Doors https://www.discogs.com/release/3220997-Various-Stoned-Immaculate-The-Music-Of-The-Doors 

Symphony No. 5 in C-Sharp Minor: 4th Movement Adagietto by Gustav Mahler https://music.apple.com/ca/album/symphony-no-5-in-c-sharp-minor-iv-adagietto-sehr-langsam/968883949?i=968884956 performed by the Berlin Philharmonic conducted by Herbert von Karajan

Two of Rimbaud's poems were reproduced in the making of this podcast:

The Sleeper In The Valley

Ophelie 

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Take a deep dive into the darkness that intersects fame, addiction, art and poetry within the terrifying corridors of Rikers Island in the latest installment of The GXO Podcast.

From Carroll's meteoric rise and harrowing decline, star athlete turned punk poet who immortalized his struggles in The Basketball Diaries, to the tragic, chaotic final chapter of Sex Pistol Sid Vicious following his arrest for 2nd degree murder in the death of his girlfriend Nancy Spungen, this is a story of two very different paths through the same nightmare.

New York author, poet, punk rock star Jim Carroll spent time as a teenager imprisoned on Rikers Island for heroin possession. This real life experience became a major part of his 1978 autobiographical book, The Basketball Diaries. Begun when he was just 12 years old, Carroll’s journal documented his shocking decline from star Catholic school athlete to drug addiction and sex work. 

Sex Pistol Sid Vicious also spent time at Rikers Island in the late 1970s. Following his arrest for the stabbing death of his girlfriend Nancy Spungen in their Chelsea Hotel apartment, Vicious violated the conditions of his $50,000 bail and was shipped off to Rikers for two months.

One of them survived.

One of them didn’t.

*THE MUSIC

Hello by Justin Nial Scanlon from his 2022 album Cheap & Ugly https://youtube.com/playlist?list=OLAK5uy_mIg2ZJ-aoRIx7qmwqWCwLFqYYF3VQerpU&si=ZBglVBgm8LtMpnLX

People Who Died by Jim Carroll from his debut album Catholic Boy https://music.apple.com/ca/album/people-who-died/1476457132?i=1476457513

The Revolution Will Not Be Televised by Gil Scott-Heron from his 1971 debut studio album https://music.apple.com/ca/album/the-revolution-will-not-be-televised/1621384497?i=1621384500

Compositions heard reproduced in this podcast were written by Justin Nial Scanlon and Jim Carroll and are the property of Justin Nial Scanlon and the Estate Of Jim Carroll 

Research material used in the production of this podcast includes the award winning documentary film Rikers: An American Jail https://youtu.be/J6JH4OGqIU0?si=vcdoXUkeqRiLPssc

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From loathing to loving. How did we get here?

A pitstop in Luckenbach, Texas, to meet Waylon, Willie, and the boys, followed by a deep dive into the gritty world of 70s Outlaw Country with Hank Williams Jr. and Kris Kristofferson

Join us for a quick detour to England to see how Mark Knopfler and his cast of country bumpkins put a Brit pop spin on the genre

From the very possible reincarnation of Hank Williams himself, to Wayne Hancock, Canada's hurtin' Albertan Corb Lund, Shooter Jennings and the sage wisdom of  self-admitted "lazy ass hippie" himself, Todd Snider.

"I want to rest in a beautiful bed of plush cotton because, after a life of wearing heavy rhinestones, I finally deserve to be comfortable and have some rest" - Dolly Parton (1946-2016)

Rest easy girl

Long live Smokin’ Joe Fournier! Our country includes Smokin' Joe!

*THE MUSIC

My Country Includes by Joe Fournier

Far Away Eyes by The Rolling Stones

The Last Whippoorwill by Lona Heins

Up Against The Wall Redneck Mothers by Jerry Jeff Walker

Put Another Log On The Fire by Tompall Glaser

Why Don't We Get Drunk And Screw by Jimmy Buffett

Early 1970 by Ringo Starr

Sally G by Paul McCartney & Wings

Behind That Locked Door by George Harrison

John Sinclair by John Lennon

The Road Goes On Forever by Robert Earl Keen

Jesus Left Chicago by Hank Williams Jr

Texas Eagle by Steve Earl & The Del McCoury Band

This Time by Dwight Yoakam

She's No Lady by Lyle Lovett

My Wife Thinks You're Dead by Junior Brown

Run Me Down by The Notting Hillbillies

Dance The Night Away by The Mavericks

Kansas City Blues by Wayne Hancock

7 Months, 39 Days by Hank Williams III

5 Dollar Bill by Corb Lund

Put The O Back In Country by Shooter Jennings

Conservative Christian Right Wing Republican Straight White American Males by Todd Snider

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Welcome to this week’s episode of The GXO Podcast, where your host the Generation X Offender dives deep into the legacy of the "Children of the Revolution" the iconic class of 1946.

80 is a milestone. An accomplishment. A destination. Club 80. And while Beatles Knights Sir Richard Starkey, MBE (aka Ringo Starr professionally) Sir Paul McCartney, MBE as well as Rolling Stones’ Michael Philip Jagger (aka Mick) and bandmate Keith Richards revel in the realm of The Octogenarian, others are not so fortunate.

Are we’re ready to carry it forward?

Listen and find out NOW! 

On the latest episode of The GXO Podcast, your trusted, insider source for all things music, pop culture and current affairs

*THE MUSIC

The 1973 Tony Kosinec  composition Alan (originally titled Youngblood Alan) as interpreted by actor Tim Curry from his 1978 debut studio album Read My Lips produced by legendary Alice Cooper, KISS, Pink Floyd, Peter Gabriel producer Bob Ezrin featuring scintillating standout guitar solo by Richard "Dick" Wagner. Currently this album is unavailable on any streaming service but can be heard on YouTube https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PLx-v6CN-qPYecbuOq23CQ9QBcS5Nxhf7B&si=RrLHVwZbreWtbPqa

1972 single by T. Rex (Marc Bolan) Children Of The Revolution produced by noted David Bowie producer Tony Visconti https://music.apple.com/ca/album/children-of-the-revolution/1444854031?i=1444854131

Written when she was just 17 years old, Bronx born New Yorker Laura Nyro released her recording of And When I Die on her 1967 debut album More Than A New Discovery (later re-issued as The First Songs) when she was just 19 years old. The song has previously been recorded by Greenwich Village based folk group Peter, Paul & Mary. Jazz rock fusion group Blood, Sweat & Tears' version reached No. 2 on the US Billboard Hot 100, kept from the coveted No. 1 spot by The Beatles double A-side single Come Together/Something https://music.apple.com/ca/album/and-when-i-die/198225633?i=198227410

My Tennessee Mountain home, originally penned by master composer Dolly Parton in 1973 for her 11th album, and covered here by blues master interpreter of song Maria Muldaur from her 1973 eponymously titled solo album https://music.apple.com/ca/album/my-tennessee-mountain-home/882486627?i=882486702

Alan recorded live in 1978 at The Old Waldorf Nightclub, San Francisco from the 1989 Best Of Tim Curry album https://music.apple.com/ca/album/alan-live-at-the-old-waldorf-nightclub-1978/1445958995?i=1445959312

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The final chapter of our three-part celebration of the incomparable Robyn Hitchcock has arrived, and it’s a journey you simply cannot afford to miss!

In this concluding installment of "A Renaissance Of Robyn," we tie together the threads of a career that defies categorization, blending the whimsical, the surreal, and the profoundly human.

From there, we trace the evolution of his sound, revisiting the jagged, infectious energy of his six albums with The Egyptians, featuring the powerhouse Soft Boys rhythm section of Andy Metcalfe and Morris Windsor, and the collaborative magic of his three-album run with The Venus 3, anchored by R.E.M.’s Peter Buck and  legendary Ministry drummer Bill Rieflin.

This episode goes far beyond the discography of Robyn Hitchcock. We examine Robyn’s pivotal role in director John Edginton’s 2001 BBC 2 masterpiece, The Pink Floyd & Syd Barrett Story, as well as his 2007 feature documentary Sex, Food, Death & Insects, which made its North American debut at the Atlantic Film Festival in Halifax.

Listen NOW!

*THE SONGS

Saturday Groovers

Vacations In The Past

Dominoes (written by Syd Barrett)

Mexican God

Daisy Bomb

In Agony Of Pleasure

Century

The Beauty Of Earl's Court

I Feel Beautiful

Stupefied

Jewels For Sophia

Queen Elvis II

If You Know Time

For Debbie Reynolds

Welcome To Earth

Creeped Out

The Afterlight

Dark Princess

Tryin' To Get To Heaven Before They Close The Door (written by Bob Dylan)

The Wind Cries Mary (written by Jimi Hendrix)

All songs written by Robyn Hitchcock except where noted

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The GXO Podcast: A Renaissance of Robyn Pt 2

Robyn Hitchcock, the 14-year-old spirit celestially informed through 365 days of 1966 into 1967, trapped inside a six-decade odyssey of sound. 

And you are not going to miss one second of it.

We promise.

*THE MUSIC

Cynthia Mask

A Filthy Bird

Clean Steve

Satellite

Driving Around (Radio Storm)

The Devil's Coachman

The Yip Song

Certainly Cliquot

Railway Shoes

Glass Hotel

You And Oblivion

When I Was Dead

(violin by Deni Bonet)

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