Billy Marten

Half of Axford&Marten, podcaster #TheStoryOfTheSong - If it ain't broke, fix it until it is

[Billy Marten @billmarten]

@Happy_Cauli @AxfordMichaela Thank you Cauli! 😁

[Meidas_Charise Lee @charise_lee]

First Jane now Dolly …National Heroes

[Paul Mason @paulmasonnews]

The UK is one of the most restrained and subtle diplomatic forces in the world. No need for a degree in semiotics to see what it did tonight 🇺🇦🇬🇧

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@AxfordMichaela The overture includes a false ending and some lively brass, both characteristics of disco, but it’s still a bit too 1791 rather than 1971 to have a four-on-the-floor - tho ISTR Papageno at one point received a slap-in-the-lap… 👀

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@AxfordMichaela

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@AxfordMichaela 💅

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@AxfordMichaela Want one! 😂😂😂

(Much easier than trying to play the real thing)
(Even if you do succeed in getting them out of your mouth)
(And then if you’re a budgie you do suck-seed)

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@AxfordMichaela Course Phil Spector / Jack Nietzsche were big fans of the chatterers - see e.g. Be My Baby, which gave a lot of, er, *inspiration* to that Supertramp intro 😁

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@AxfordMichaela Oh gosh, the style looks like the inner-sleeve illustrations on some T.Rex albums:

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@AxfordMichaela @IDiedInHell @dank_ackroyd Think the term for this is a Race to the Bottom....

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@20th_Centurygal Genius musician, made music entirely unlike anyone else, also incredible live

First solo album which had this song on had Phil Collins on drums and Peter took away all his cymbals, including hi hat

This was the album that invented the gated drum reverb sound, on Intruder

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@SoccerMomma12 I tried one - it was a little too bright…. 😆

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@SarahAndCo3 @AxfordMichaela ‘Sarah’ I have no idea what you’re talking about, or who ‘Adam’ is!

You’re incredibly rude and I want nothing to do with you! Do not threaten my friends!

[Billy Marten @billmarten]

@AxfordMichaela Only strong women with a lot of friends, like you

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@withnailjones @floboflo Andy White was the drummer brought in by George Martin for the recording of Love Me Do, coz he initially thought Ringo wasn’t up to it

Other opinions were also available and quickly proved conclusive! 😁

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@AxfordMichaela Aimee Mann is a genius - that song is outstanding, her lyrics are some of the best in popular music

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@AxfordMichaela Vg. Phew. I was starting to doubt that I knew *anything*

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@AxfordMichaela Gosh, what *else* isn’t true?? Don’t tell me now it’s not Judie Tzuke on the theme tune??

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@AxfordMichaela @IDiedInHell That is one helluva tearjerker ngl