![]() He’s got an amazing voice, amazing range, huge personality. I found Meat Loaf through The Rocky Horror Picture Show and Wayne’s World. We’d go to Our Price in The Maltings and my mates would rip the piss out of me for buying Pulp. I never really fitted in during my teens. I’ll play this when I’ve had too much to drink and I’ll dance around my kitchen.īat Out Of Hell gets all the love but Meat Loaf’s Dead Ringer deserves attention. I saw the film once I’ve listened to the song 100 times. I heard this for the first time in a film called Wolf Cop, during a romantic montage where Wolf Cop and this woman are locked in a cell and they have sex to this song. This is quite a nice album but Moonlight Desires is the most amazing, romantic song, featuring Jon Anderson on backing vocal. This is what Lawrence Gowan did before joining Styx. I found Gowan’s Dirty Great World through a film soundtrack. When I watched this, my brain exploded – it’s like watching a dream and the music is a huge part of that. I’d not seen many Stephen King adaptations and last year I forced myself to watch more. I walked past this in the window of Flashback Records in Crouch End, went to the pub, then had to walk back to the shop to buy it – it was eating away at me. These synthy themes aren’t just there for atmosphere – they add a very musical groove and feel that complements the film and creates an identity.Īnd then you get the Carrie soundtrack. I’m also a big fan of Goblin, especially for Suspiria and Profondo Rosso. These are soundtracks to films that were never made so I come up with amazing imagery in my head to fit these when I write. I listen to this when I’m writing, which is a lot. I love a soundtrack album and John Carpenter’s Lost Themes I and II stem back to my love of horror too. My generation grew up with ELO everywhere so they can be taken for granted, but every track here is a Sgt Pepper – complicated, exciting and beautiful. ELO’s Out Of The Blue is great as a physical thing – nice artwork, lyric sleeves. And then I got into Leslie Nielsen!īeing a huge Alice Cooper fan, you’d get the works with packaging for albums such as Billion Dollar Babies or School’s Out. As a kid I’d hunt out all his films in the video shop, to the point where, because I was young and stupid, I rented The Naked Gun, thinking Leslie Nielsen was him. He wasn’t just giving these things a go – he mastered them before going on to the next thing. He was the first comedian to do stadiums – that’s why he wore white suits, to be seen – he did alternative comedy before anyone else, he’s a playwright, a screenwriter, a comedian, a lead actor, an accomplished musician and a magician. While this music isn’t progressive as such, Steve Martin’s outlook is. The banjo stuff is better than the comedy. One half of this Steve Martin album, The Steve Martin Brothers, is comedy and the other half is banjo music. ![]() And playing vinyl is a physical experience, having to get up to turn it over from side A to B. This record fascinated me as there’s a bit of ghosting on it, so you can hear the music before the track starts. It’s funky folk music, with a Hammond on it, bound up in this mysticism he has. Cat Stevens does folk but mixes so much more in with it – the track Freezing Steel is incredible. Growing up in Finsbury Park in the 80s, we didn’t sing hymns at school – it was Beatles songs and Morning Has Broken. She must have had this at university or when she was travelling. Pairs of John’s auctioned in 1988 sold for up to $16,830.Cat Stevens’ Catch Bull At Four is my mum’s – she signed it. But John’s commitment to eyewear, even after he stopped wearing overt costumes in 1986, has arguably shaped the evolution of the global eyewear industry, which is estimated to exceed a value of $167 billion by 2023, according to a report by Research and Markets. Lenses that traditionally had been made of thick glass were replaced with plastic lenses, and frames became available in multiple hues. It was partly a matter of timing: John’s career took off during an era in which eyewear materials, shapes and color options were radically changing. Bettmann/Getty Imagesĭay says he “can’t think of anybody else who has had as huge an impact with glasses.” David Cox, one of the United Kingdom’s last remaining handmade spectacle frame-makers who crafted nine different pairs for Rocketman, agrees, saying that when John came along, “glasses became part of making a fashion statement.” ![]() John received a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame in Los Angeles in 1975.
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