August 2014

An evening at the Islington with Simon Napier-Bell

August 25, 2014 David Hepworth 0

We had fun talking to Simon Napier-Bell at the Islington last week. You can hear the results as a podcast here or via this clip. […]

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.

Michael Cragg’s devotion to all things Kylie once led him to Melbourne in search of the actual carousel horse she rode in a pop video. He got a tattoo a day later. Can’t Get You Out Of My Head is a funny and fondly detailed personal account of the risk-taking variety of her records, the mystery of her private life and the irresistible nature of her appeal, a girl who, were there a war on, would be painted on the tail fins of aircraft. He looks back here at …

… her ‘90s reinvention by association – with Nick Cave, Michael Hutchence and Bobby Gillespie

… how records about joy never get enough credit

… wrestling back control after life with Stock Aitken & Waterman

… the root of her appeal as a gay icon

… being vilified by the press for any public pronouncement

… a capacity to charm her detractors when she meets them

… reciting I Should Be So Lucky at the Poetry Olympics alongside Patti Smith and Allen Ginsberg

… a mixture of the ordinary and the exotic and the ‘Carry On’ sexuality of her videos

… only Queen Elizabeth 11 has had more waxworks at Madame Tussauds

… and Michael’s meeting with her – “I’m six foot eight, she’s five foot one” – and the resulting photo.

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