Mark King honest interview the brothers Gould leaving the band 1989 Mtv

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5 жыл бұрын

Mark King from Level 42 short interview about the brothers Gould leaving the band his drinking problem and plans for the next album

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@tribeshift 4 жыл бұрын

Unbelievably honest interview. Level 42 was my first favourite band when I was a kid. Mark remains one of my all-time favourite bassists. An incredible talent and always comes across as a great bloke too.

@trebleking1641 3 жыл бұрын

So raw and emotional. Just an ordinary guy with with feelings like the rest of us.

@OliviaWilde681 Жыл бұрын

Take a Look Is a BEAUTIFUL song!!!! Mark was really at his lowest ebb here and going through a very difficult time with worse to come... Magic group always were and always will be with the main highlight for me being the Princes Gala In the 80's when they hosted the whole thing and Mark played on stage with Eric Clapton-truly amazing!

@FaceBassFieldy 5 жыл бұрын

Great to hear Mark’s heart & his honesty! I still find him an inspiration!👍🏻

@davidwebster1213 5 жыл бұрын

Mark king bass playing is out of this world prob only a handful of people who can play like that Eg the guy from casiopea,,,,, level 42 the early stuff inspiration to a genaration long may they continue

@BazzerObama Жыл бұрын

No one goes into the music business wanting to be unpopular, and popularity and success tend to go hand in hand. He is at a very low ebb in this interview, hitting 30 clearly was a big deal and for that to coincide with two of his best mates leaving the band, I can see how he would see that his world was collapsing. Whilst MK, is in my eyes a bass playing genius and Level 42 are a fantastic band and how I would love to have that talent, there is also a big weight to carry, to continue to write great songs and draw in the crowds. I often say to my wife, given the choice of fame and money or anonymity and money, I would want the latter all the time. I imagine for a lot of 80’s bands it must have been difficult for them to deal with waning popularity and record sales in free fall and someone stopping them in the street and saying “Didn’t you used to be XYZ”.

@joegoosebass3958 3 жыл бұрын

Mark King is such a dude

@davidsanderson5918 4 жыл бұрын

Wow VERY honest here. He's not at a high ebb here though , shall we say. Must've been very sobering, gutting even, to have recorded an album like Staring At The Sun and then having it slammed by cynical critics because they were no longer flavour of the month. Although I have to agree with him. Staring At The Sun and Running In The Family do have weak areas, in some cases BAD areas. Unlike World Machine which was start to finish brilliant. True Colours was darker, colder but all of it great quality. Standing In The Light....well, need I go on?? The first five albums in hindsight were from their most creatively fertile years....much like most other great artists!! I agree with him. It's strange though because most of the time he says in interviews that they improved and matured as they became more 'successful'. Here he's admitting there WAS a loss of consistent quality and he's not lying. And he's right, in my opinion. Fortunately they finished with a great one. Forever Now, Great album!

@LordEradicus 5 жыл бұрын

I have to disagree about Staring At The Sun. It was definitely different from previous albums, but there were some really great tracks there that have withstood the test of time.

@Norbicool44 5 жыл бұрын

I love that album great tracks ♥️

@garethfreeman3436 5 жыл бұрын

I agree...following up the 'Running In The Family' album was always going to be hard but I thought there was some smashing songs on the 'Staring At The Sun' album (which got to No.2 on the UK album charts)...especially 'Heaven In my Hands' , 'Take A Look' (which is a superb ballad and VERY underrated!!), 'Man' and the beautiful instrumental 'Gresham Blues' ...

@davidsanderson5918 4 жыл бұрын

He didn't say it was ALL rubbish....just some of it. Personally I think Tracie is toecurlingly awful. It's enjoyable but it's a patchy album unlike the first five albums which are far more consistent. I don't blame anyone. Recording an album during a tough time, dealing with loss, divorce and no doubt disillusionment....I can forgive the fact there's a couple of clunkers!!

@LordEradicus 4 жыл бұрын

@@davidsanderson5918 Nobody said it was ALL rubbish here, either, but there are those that really liked the Staring At The Sun album, even from beginning to end.

@bkkersey93 3 жыл бұрын

Some of us are just L42 extremists, where everything they've done just suits our tastes. I agree, I love SATS and Guaranteed as much as the albums before.

@jefffrance5492 Жыл бұрын

My question for Mark here would be...was that album that you took the time to make (Guaranteed) as good as you hoped?

@user-yx9xk6gx3x 5 ай бұрын

He seems so lost ❤❤

@dubboyz4887 8 ай бұрын

And after came gauranteed, still probably my fav album they did .The album marks talking about had some good tracks but wasn’t a strong album .

@hernacello1 8 ай бұрын

It's reassonable that every music artist must develop, but something didn't work in SATS: the way rock sounds incorporate to their style make' em lose the freshness and the eloquent deep of the previus albums (specially the three first ones). Maybe, too much pressure of the record label for make good sellings

@Generalbas1972 5 жыл бұрын

i just wanna make a really good album now says Mark King.....aaaaand then came guarenteed

@lazycalm41 4 жыл бұрын

I totally agree with you about World Machine. brilliant album so under rated!

@bkkersey93 3 жыл бұрын

Guaranteed is a great album.

@acidmack1041 2 жыл бұрын

@@bkkersey93 I dont know...Guaranteed is pretty poor to be honest

@beng1lh00ly 3 жыл бұрын

Running in the Family is their masterpiece for me and superior to world machine!

@acidmack1041 2 жыл бұрын

Agree...there is not a single bad track on the whole album. The worst track is Fashion Fever and thats still a good track

@mazzarouni5608 4 жыл бұрын

He did a big mistake saying that. I bet he regrets it. Bear in mind though he was still a young man, 30 years old. I still think that SATS was a good but not spectacular album (like World Machine). Heaven in my hands is brilliant with great lyrics from Boon. Take A Look deserved to get a better chart position as it’s a good soul tune. Man is one of their best ever. The title track of the album is pretty good too, very jazzy. But yes there were mistakes but the good outweighed the bad. The problem was the next great album. Guaranteed was good but it still didn’t reach the heights of World Machine. It did include in my opinion one of their best ever songs Her Big Day that for the life of me I still don’t understand why it was never released as a single. Forever Now was very good and came close to World Machine.

@popularpop12 Жыл бұрын

I'm Brazilian, so my English will be checked by a translator. I'm sorry if I can't convey my ideas. SATS is perhaps my favorite album by the band (I know it's not the best, because preference comes with personal sentimental reasons). And what you said, I agree, and maybe it could have been his frustration. "Take a Look", to me, is as big as "Something About You", but the band hasn't played it since then, turning it into a B-side song. "Man" is certainly the synthesis of the band's grandeur and genius, but incomprehensible to pop listeners and out of place within the album itself, which is perhaps more pop than its predecessor. I think that SATS is perhaps the album that sounds independent, that is the synthesis of the influences that the band received over the years. Maybe at the time, he saw the result of that and didn't like it. It's a self-styled album, I can't categorize it and it doesn't refer to any of the past albums or the successors. Indeed, Level 42 deserved greater fame - the top of the band was opening for Madonna in the Americas. I think SATS could have been the album for Level 42 to become a big band in the Americas, not just Europe, but it was an unlucky time. The hits did not surpass the previous ones, the brothers left the band and one of the best guitarists (one of my big influences) died in the middle of this hurricane. Anyway, the SATS lineup is my favorite, as far as the primacy of the musicians is concerned. Alan and Gary are more instrumentally talented than the Gould brothers.

@jefffrance5492 Жыл бұрын

For me forever now was much better than Guaranteed because Phil was back working with Mark. Phil brings a Naivety that make Level 42.

@eightiesmusic1984 8 ай бұрын

@@popularpop12 May I say that your English is very well expressed, translator or not. A very articulate and thoughtful comment about Level 42. I think they are a superb band and I have been listening to them since 1985 ( not as long as others, of course). Thanks for sharing your thoughts.

@andy42x 8 ай бұрын

i disagree that there's any rubbish on Running In The Family... except for maybe Fashion Fever, which i never cared for.

@jaymay2081 3 жыл бұрын

Heaven in my Hands is amazing. Gresham Blues good. I Don’t Know Why is OK. The rest is meh. Guaranteed is bad apart from Overtime and Alan Holdsworth’s sublime solos on A Kinder Eye and If You Were Mine. Forever Now was a return to form. Retroglide? Retro-gressive. Ship was OK though. One Man? Awful from start to finish- but Pamela is one of the worst songs ever written.

@ba-ba1193 5 жыл бұрын

Yep, the only decent tracks on the Staring at the sun album are Gresham Blues and Man. As Mark admits, the rest is crap.

@Norbicool44 5 жыл бұрын

I love that album the only really crap song is the ape

@ianevans9475 5 жыл бұрын

I like most of the level 42 albums and yes agree that Starring At The Sun Album was a little bland however there was a line up change and sometimes that can make a difference to things. My 2 most favourite albums are Worldmachine and the 2nd Forever Now Album .

@bkkersey93 3 жыл бұрын

No they're not.

@lloveculture 2 жыл бұрын

Gresham Blues is a great pull. Deeply underappreciated.

@stephenalanmoore7278 Жыл бұрын

@@Norbicool44 'The Ape' is on the 'Guaranteed' album NOT 'Staring At The Sun'.