Robert Wyatt and Elvis Costello `Loose Talk' May 1983

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5 жыл бұрын

Wyatt and Costello discuss the release of `Shipbuilding' on an early Channel 4 programme `Loose Talk'. Restored from a VHS tape before it was too late.

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@edwardmulholland7912 Жыл бұрын

Robert’s voice is so poignant, it was perfect in every way for the song. It’s the best lyric Costello ever wrote. Everything about the recording still stands up today after all these years.

@CookinginRussia 2 жыл бұрын

So few people now recognize Wyatt as the incredible musical genius he was. What a tragedy what happened to him. No surprise that Elvis Costello recognizes him.

@samjones9214 3 жыл бұрын

Utterly sublime.There's a longing in Robert's voice that hints at the sadness of past times, unrecoverable. But it's not oversentimental either. Those disappeared traditional working class jobs in the mines, heavy engineering, shipbuilding and similar industries were hard, generally poorly paid and dangerous.And somehow, this song encapsulates much of this feeling on a human scale. an absolute masterpiece.

@OldDunc 9 ай бұрын

With due respect, it's also about the (then, in 1983) present: Thatcher's war in the Falklands.

@samjones9214 9 ай бұрын

@@OldDunc Fair enough Old Dunc. But my comment was made only 3 years ago and Thatcher's failure to support Britain's heavy industries was part of a deliberate deindustrialization policy (mostly aimed at breaking union power and working class soldarity) which started in 1979 so I don't think I was that far out given when the song was written.

@OldDunc 9 ай бұрын

@@samjones9214 Understood (and i saw the date of your comment), but that's why talking about "the sadness of past times" doesn't work here. "Traditional working class jobs" were nothing to be nostalgic about, and the unions knew that. And the core of the song is about the war, though I agree that Thatcher's economic policies are in there too.

@DavidInSugarLand Жыл бұрын

One of the greatest songs written. And what a fantastic recording!

@alexgreen5064 Жыл бұрын

A match made in heaven. Such a sublime piece of songwriting, melody and vocals.

@twistedspanner 2 жыл бұрын

Robert looks much younger and healthier in the interview. In the video he looks almost unrecognisable. Loved Robert in the Soft Machine. Fabulous band.

@OldDunc 9 ай бұрын

That's what I like about the video. Music videos generally are aimed at glamorizing the performer; Wyatt here looks ancient of days - they even show his wheelchair. It fits the song.

@manoutoftime9057 4 жыл бұрын

Why does this only have 6 comments? As good as 'pop music' ever got!

@timflatus 3 жыл бұрын

Well, the song is one of the greatest ever written and recorded as I'm sure everyone here will agree. But the interview is rather annoying. It's an Elvis interview that they let Robert sit in on, that's partly because Robert is completely out of his comfort zone here

@cuebj 3 жыл бұрын

Two of my favourite artists combined in a great song - I still have the single as well as a recording by EC and play both regularly even now, 2021. Strange to see them looking so young. EC is a few months younger than me. I'd forgotten it dates from Falklands war

@veloman59 4 жыл бұрын

Brilliant song, brilliant singer, just brilliant

@michelbrauner8550 3 жыл бұрын

Beautiful Robert Wyatt is music.

@RobertLogan Жыл бұрын

Pure perfection. This makes me cry, for so many reasons.

@rosscavanagh2187 3 жыл бұрын

Yes an absolute beautiful soulful n heart ballad jazz folk piece

@failletceline5756 9 ай бұрын

Deux légendes musicales,réunies,en phase, le bonheur de la musique…inspirante…..

@Jerkcurb1 3 жыл бұрын

Couple of absolute legends

@ZeldaFitz 6 ай бұрын

One of my favourite songs of the 80s

@colintaylor7412 5 жыл бұрын

So strange. I love Elvis and Robert - but the interviewer is my big brother!!!

@manoutoftime9057 4 жыл бұрын

You should be proud mate! 👍

@ahmedsredy2429 3 жыл бұрын

Quiet a brilliant interviewer your brother was ,naturally when you work in channel 4 you can only be good ,I hope you and your big brother are doing well and seeing each other regularly .I will check out more interviews by Mr Taylor the journalist .

@elizabethflynn8455 2 жыл бұрын

Thank you very much for posting this. Much appreciated.

@krisscanlon4051 Жыл бұрын

What a duo...fantastic!

@mu8554 2 жыл бұрын

I went to school with a wayne Dinsdale back in the 1970's,he was a very unusual human being.

@croiners4166 5 жыл бұрын

Great, thanks for sharing, jim

@kennycampbell7975 Жыл бұрын

Released 40 years ago today.

@cosmicdrifter287 4 жыл бұрын

straight to the heart.

@billschwenke790 3 жыл бұрын

Excellent King Crimson cover exists on some CD EP I got years back, not on KZfaq for some reason

@filirani 5 жыл бұрын

Grazie !!

@richdelgado3405 3 жыл бұрын

This single song has more melody, meaning and beauty than about 90% of the crap on the radio today.

@pablomalaga4676 3 жыл бұрын

99.99% (at least)

@seanoconnor5402 3 жыл бұрын

More melody, meaning and beauty than about 90% of the crap on the radio then too.

@dancingvirgil 4 ай бұрын

Stop living in the past

@AfroZen 5 жыл бұрын

Two, top English gents…

@planetwaft349 2 жыл бұрын

Dad they're going to take me to task. But I'll be back by christmas.

@morganfisherart 4 жыл бұрын

Two of my #1 geezers. The interviewer said, "we'll talk to you later" - so is there a Part 2 of this video?

@Fexobs 3 жыл бұрын

Not to my knowledge Morgan, and I'm the chap who taped it....around about the time I was probably writing to you to praise your compilation `Minatures' to the skies ! It is POSSIBLE they maybe did an interview with Elvis too, which I wouldn't have kept at the time.

@debrabrabenec3731 2 жыл бұрын

Thank you for Miniatures! I love it! Back when I made mixtapes for friends, they were perfect for filling up the end of the tapes!

@troygaspard6732 11 ай бұрын

This was out in Rough Trade? Good on them for getting Wyatt.

@Fexobs 11 ай бұрын

Yes he did a couple of albums for them `Nothing Can Stop Us' and `Old Rottenhat' and a great EP called `Work In Progress'

@ajs41 3 жыл бұрын

Do you have any more Loose Talk shows? I'm particularly interested in the one which featured Sade, which I think was from 11th April 1983. I know there are already some clips from that show on YoTube but I'd be interested to see the whole show.

@Fexobs 3 жыл бұрын

Hi Andy, sadly not. I was a student back then and VHS tape was about a fiver for an E-180 (3hr tape). I used to spin them out for a long as possible by only recording things which were essential to me.

@MIXTAPEdc 3 жыл бұрын

Here is Sade's performance. kzfaq.info/get/bejne/ptFnfJde3Zmbfas.html but yeah, it would be great to see the whole shows. I see Howard Jones and Cocteau Twins' performances on KZfaq, but gosh, the whole shows/interviews would be great.

@matthewhearn5464 7 ай бұрын

Once again...

@suncity22001 3 жыл бұрын

catholic architecture is my fave.

@dawsonson 2 жыл бұрын

Beautiful song

@OghamTheBold 4 ай бұрын

1983 around the time I won the college Physics prize and Thatcher in 1984 forced us to dig for food in managed decline Manchester

@timetobenotdo 6 ай бұрын

Robert Wyatt’s version of ship building is by far my favorite thing from Elvis Costello

@ZeldaFitz 6 ай бұрын

Mark Bedford on double bass

@FitzElda Ай бұрын

Clive Langer on organ

@kevinprior3549 Ай бұрын

Smoking in the audience... wow

@johnnymoondog 4 ай бұрын

1.1x

@JSTNtheWZRD Жыл бұрын

DINSDALE 🦔

@DarkForcesStudio 2 жыл бұрын

Funny to hear how detached we were from current events in those days. Costello had to be informed by only one news channel.

@stephenpayne9120 2 жыл бұрын

Tell us what you mean without sounding like the Daily Telegraph Cryptic Crossword.

@OldDunc 9 ай бұрын

Funny, they did have print media in those days. TV news is not and never has been a good source for news.

@in3rcia218 3 жыл бұрын

1:20 tears for fears copying here very hard

@thedrumdoctor 2 жыл бұрын

For anyone who doesn’t know, ‘I Believe’ from ‘Songs From the Big Chair’ was an attempt at a Wyatt style vocal delivery based on his performance on this song. I didn’t realise the origins of ‘I Believe’ until Roland Orzabal and Chris Hughes explained it on the Classic Albums documentary.

@krisscanlon4051 2 жыл бұрын

So I heard tsk nice try lads

@chrisredditch 2 жыл бұрын

@@thedrumdoctor The title "I Believe" Comes from the fact that Robert once covered The Monkees Song "I'm a Believer"

@thedrumdoctor 2 жыл бұрын

@@chrisredditch I didn’t know he’d covered it!!

@chrisredditch 2 жыл бұрын

@@thedrumdoctor kzfaq.info/get/bejne/j52AdbOVmLulZ4U.html

@michaelhopper4545 3 жыл бұрын

that was a very awkward interview

@thedrumdoctor 2 жыл бұрын

I thought that as well. Neither really comfortable with the situation.

@OldDunc 9 ай бұрын

@@thedrumdoctor That seems fine to me. Wyatt especially wasn't a part of the pop industry, so of course he hadn't been prepped by PR people.

@thedrumdoctor 9 ай бұрын

@@OldDunc At this time in the business the stylists and PR budgets seemed to on the new pop bands. I remember at the 80s when I was in a signed band on an independent label, we had no budget for that sort of thing! Different times they were, indeed. Looking at Wyatt as a drummer and a singer, he wasn’t going to be moulded into some sort of contrived image. After MTV exploded image was everything.