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We few, we happy few, will be talking about those Duckworth Lewis shows for weeks

July 10, 2013 David Hepworth 0

Alex and I have just got back from Nottingham, having seen the Duckworth Lewis Method royally entertain the Playhouse Theatre with a slightly longer set […]

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Handful of new tickets for Duckworth Lewis at Lord’s on Monday!

July 5, 2013 David Hepworth 0

Because of public demand and media interest, Duckworth Lewis will now be playing two shows at Lord’s on Monday night and therefore we have issued […]

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Things I found out while having a quiet word with Daniel Tashian and Dylan Jones last night

July 3, 2013 David Hepworth 0

The key moment in Daniel’s career came when he discovered the major seventh chord. If you launch into a Louvin Brothers song at a Word […]

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Dress code at Lord’s

July 3, 2013 David Hepworth 0

People have been asking whether there’s any dress code for Duckworth Lewis at Lord’s. It goes without saying that we would welcome anyone who makes […]

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Word In Your Ear
Word In Your Ear

David Hepworth, Mark Ellen and chums cast an occasionally jaundiced eye over the goings-on in the worlds of music and entertainment.

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Neil Tennant revisits songs he’s written since the age of nine
byMark Ellen, David Hepworth and Alex Gold

Neil Tennant co-wrote a musical at Primary School and soon decided that “learning other people’s songs was hard work compared with making up your own”. He’s chosen some from the Pet Shop Boys’ 40-year catalogue, hits and obscurities, in ‘One Hundred Lyrics and a Poem’, just out in paperback, and added fascinating notes about their context and composition. This very funny and revealing conversation lands on the following …

 

… the first song he ever wrote

 

… auditioning for Rocket Records in 1975

 

… does songwriting have rules?

 

 … how Chris Lowe tamed his inner “musical snob”

 

… rap, Brecht-Weill, Betjeman, Noel Coward, My Fair Lady and the art of “speak-singing”

 

… the decades of lyrics stored in our brains

 

… the Songwriting Bootcamp that produced What Have I Done To Deserve This?

 

… the essence of melancholy (and the chord that expresses it)

 

… “the sound of words is often more important than the sense”

 

… whether Dylan deserved the Nobel Prize for Literature

 

… West End Girls and whether to rap in English or American

 

… the writing of King’s Cross, Cricket Wife, Odd Man Out and I Made My Excuses And Left

 

… “Robert Maxwell stole my pension!”

 

… and the “geology of my life” in diaries that one day might make a memoir.

 

Order ‘One Hundred Lyrics And a Poem’ here: https://www.faber.co.uk/product/9780571397891-one-hundred-lyrics-and-a-poem/

 

And ‘Pet Shop Boys: Volume’ here: https://shop.petshopboys.co.uk/gb/pet-shop-boys-volume/9780500027479.html

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