In may, Robert Wyatt was interviewed by Simon Reynolds at the Hay Festival in Wales. You may buy the interview at "The Guardian Hay festival Archive". Pay at least 5 credit points (total £5), and download this interview for £1. You get 57 minutes with Robert Wyatt in good shape, talking about jazz, anti-rock, communism, Alfie, and some of the records. He claims his falsetto is inherited from Dionne Warwick, and namedrops several other female jazz vocalists too.
When Virgin wanted him to record a pop song, he'd rather have chosen Roxy Music's "Do the strand", than Neil Diamond's "I'm a believer". My God, world history would have looked totally different!
He mentions Billy Bragg, and claims he is a brave man, since he wants to change peoples minds. "I wouldn't dare to try to change people's minds, I just want to feel less lonely" (as I seem to remember it said).
Wyatt remembers lost friends John Peel and Ivor Cutler, and seems happy to be disturbed by a crying baby in the audience! Nice one.
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