80sography - 80s music interviews

The wonderful renaissance man, Martin Page, returns for the full My 80sography experience.

Because I had extracted two parts of our interview from last year for Anatomy of a Song episodes this was pus…

Wow, this is a biggie...and part 14 of the TFF saga....

I have been trying to set this up for the longest time, an audio commentary for simply
one of THE best albums of the 80s with two of the key guys…

The second part of the interview with the very talented, very successful and very Australian producer/engineer Julian Mendelsohn.

Nik, Kate, Macca, The Pets, Liza and Dusty - they are all here...

1985 …

Another My 80sography episode and another 2-parter with another great Producer, Engineer; Julian Mendelsohn.

involved in so many hits (as you will hear) he is not sure which he worked on and which he …

And we are back! Back!! BACK!!! with season 5 and another audio commentary with legendary producer Hugh Padgham.

This time it is the first solo LP from Phil Collins; the massively successful and wonde…

Shorter interviews require new formats!

Personal one for me this, getting to interview the great Midge Ure, a man whose music I have loved for over 40 years.

Effectively an extended Quickfire Round, I …

Another Anatomy of a Song and another wonderful guest; the great Dee C Lee.

As well as discussing the classic single, See The Day, we also cover her time with Wham! and The Style Council as well as Gi…

To celebrate the 80th birthday of Sir Fab Macca Whacky Thumbs Aloft we have the collated interviews with past guests discussing their experiences working with McCartney.

Starting off with an unheard i…

Pt 2 of the Gary Langan interview - great music, lawsuits, self-assembly Grammys, rock guitar hero's and punk garlic. All human life is here.
 

 1984 (02:48)
 Art Of Noise - Close To The Edit
 Art of Noi…

It was a pleasure to speak to the renowned engineer/producer and Art of Noiser, GaryLangan.

Consider part one the Trevor Horn era of his career where he was involved with some massive hits and some of…

Another gem of a AOOS with songwriter/musician Martin Page and is there anything more iconic and anthemic than the equally loved and (wrongly) derided 80s classic, We Built This City.

Loads to enjoy h…

It was an absolute thrill to be able to chat to the female Thompson Twin, the iconic Alannah Currie under the pretence of an Anatomy of a Song episode.

Although we discussed the fantastic Sister of Me…

Another day, another dollar, another cracking episode of 80sography (and another lame intro to an episode description..)

Luckily the guest is the brilliantly talented director, Daniel Kleinman, a huge…

Enjoy this interview with the hugely successful photographer Lynn Goldmsith on her 80s music side project, Will Powers and the hit single, Kissing With Confidence.

And what a cast list; vocals by Carl…

Very excited about this one - I've been looking to do another audio commentary for a while and what better place to continue with than one of the best-selling LPs of the decade.

We join Producer, the …

Welcome back to part 2 of the chat with 80s music video director, Jim Yukich, and it's a biggie - in fact, the longest episode yet.

Much enjoyment to be had and FOUR audio commentaries for music video…

 * DEFINITELY ONE FOR PHIL COLLINS/GENESIS FANS *

Heading into the visual stratosphere this week with the 80s music video career of director Jim Yukich, who now has a hugely successful career producin…

And we go again for the 4th round of 80sography with brand new guests and new exciting features.

One of which is Anatomy of a Song, where we explore a hit of the 80s with a special guest.
Our first gue…

Wow, we've reached the end of the road with Mr Hague with yet more continued success and fantastic pop records.

1987 (2:39)

New Order - True Faith
New Order/England World Cup Squad - World In Motion
(I k…

Part 2 of the interview with the 'godlike' producer, Stephen Hague, with some great LP work in '86 followed by talk on 75% of the massive hits  he produced in '87. Which one didn't he like?

Couldn't …