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Letting Them Talk with Will Harris - Ep. 27 - Thomas Dolby
This time, I’m letting Thomas Dolby talk.
Thomas Dolby is a musician whose output throughout the ‘80s and into the ‘90s was part of the soundtrack to my life. Of course, anyone who came of age during the early days of MTV knows his music whether they know his name or not. Just play them a snippet of “She Blinded Me with Science,” and the memories will instantly come flowing back.
I had the opportunity to chat with Mr. Dolby some years ago when I was writing for Bullz-Eye.com and he was in the midst of doing a flurry of press for the reissue of Prefab Sprout’s STEVE McQUEEN album, which he produced. Of course, I completely nerded out, as any proper music geek would, and believe me, I wish I could produce the audio of that conversation, because if I could, I’d include at least a portion of it with this episode…at least partially because, as you’ve probably noted if you’d look at the length of this particular installment, it’s a bit shorter than usual.
That’s because I didn’t know until it was too late to do anything about it that I’d accidentally only been allotted 30 minutes for our interview, and he didn’t know that I thought I’d been allotted an hour, so when we hit the 30-minute mark, I found myself a bit blindsided by the sudden end of the conversation. I mean, it’s all fine and well, these things happen, but I’m sorry for you, the listener, that it didn’t go on longer.
Still, during the course of our half-hour together, we talked about as much of his career as I could manage, we discussed a bit about his soundtrack work, which resulted in a particularly great Ken Russell story, and we talked about some of his session and production work over the years, including a Thompson Twins song you may not have realized that he had a hand in. If you’re a fan of his work, I think you’ll enjoy it, and if you don’t know much about his career, I think you’ll find it fascinating.
And with that said, I’d say it’s time to let Thomas Dolby talk…and after you're done listening to him talk, maybe you'd like to go see him on tour. Here's a list of his upcoming tour dates!
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This time, I’m letting Thomas Dolby talk.
Thomas Dolby is a musician whose output throughout the ‘80s and into the ‘90s was part of the soundtrack to my life. Of course, anyone who came of age during the early days of MTV knows his music whether they know his name or not. Just play them a snippet of “She Blinded Me with Science,” and the memories will instantly come flowing back.
I had the opportunity to chat with Mr. Dolby some years ago when I was writing for Bullz-Eye.com and he was in the midst of doing a flurry of press for the reissue of Prefab Sprout’s STEVE McQUEEN album, which he produced. Of course, I completely nerded out, as any proper music geek would, and believe me, I wish I could produce the audio of that conversation, because if I could, I’d include at least a portion of it with this episode…at least partially because, as you’ve probably noted if you’d look at the length of this particular installment, it’s a bit shorter than usual.
That’s because I didn’t know until it was too late to do anything about it that I’d accidentally only been allotted 30 minutes for our interview, and he didn’t know that I thought I’d been allotted an hour, so when we hit the 30-minute mark, I found myself a bit blindsided by the sudden end of the conversation. I mean, it’s all fine and well, these things happen, but I’m sorry for you, the listener, that it didn’t go on longer.
Still, during the course of our half-hour together, we talked about as much of his career as I could manage, we discussed a bit about his soundtrack work, which resulted in a particularly great Ken Russell story, and we talked about some of his session and production work over the years, including a Thompson Twins song you may not have realized that he had a hand in. If you’re a fan of his work, I think you’ll enjoy it, and if you don’t know much about his career, I think you’ll find it fascinating.
And with that said, I’d say it’s time to let Thomas Dolby talk…and after you're done listening to him talk, maybe you'd like to go see him on tour. Here's a list of his upcoming tour dates!