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Castaway
1 appearance
Singer and frontwoman of Blondie, the most successful American band in UK history, with hits like Heart of Glass, Call Me, and Denis Denis.
On the island
Eight records
I love Beth's voice. In a record it's different because they've done, you know, overdubs and more tracks. But live they opened for us at a festival. Just the two two musicians and Beth, you know, it it was fantastic, fantastic.
she came through the sixties and lived through the fifties and all that. So she was a she was a woman who really knew about that and and uh musically the why I chose it was because I really love her left hand. And the way she plays.
It just moves along, it's a great feeling, dancing or driving or or whatever. It's nice.
I think um it was one of the first bands that I saw in New York. I was completely flabbergasted and and knocked out by it
I don't know, I think they're a good songwriter, nice uh nice lyrical ideas.
The music is uh from Nino Rota, who I've always liked. A lot of these songs are very visual to me, and uh I like that.
whom I also uh think is a terrific entertainer, very talented person and um greatly overlooked.
Symphony No. 5: IV. AdagiettoFavourite
Berlin Philharmonic, conducted by Sir Simon Rattle
which I find so moving and so beautiful, just incredible. Just incredible.
In conversation
Presenter asks
3:34Do you have any problem with aging?
It's it's hard. I mean, 'cause um regardless of, you know, what I say about trying to be better at what I do, I I re I rely on looks a lot, you know, and you know, I mean, women... Women's calling cards, unfortunately, it are based on their looks many, many times. As far as aging goes, it's you know, it's rough.
Presenter asks
6:31Was that [not smiling on the Parallel Lines album cover] a very deliberate persona?
We had a manager at the time who we were sort of at war with and I really... had a lot of uh problems with on a personal level. And he chose that picture... Because he was pissed off at me. Because there were a lot of other shots where I was smiling, but he chose that one.
Presenter asks
7:28Were you always a very confident open person off stage as well?
I think I had the the confidence of doing what I wanted to do. I don't know if I was completely confident about being a performer. Sometimes facing an audience is not easy.
The keepsakes
The luxury
Presenter asks
Did you ever try to trace your own [biological] mother?
I did look her up and um I think she was quite old at the time, so uh I think that she had made a resolution within herself that, you know, let the past lie. I don't think she really wanted to... And at at that point I I really didn't need that information. I was already successful with Blondie.
Presenter asks
31:38Are you sorry you don't have children of your own?
Sometimes, sometimes, um, I guess it never struck me as being, um, s part of survival. And I think uh for many people it is. It's a me oh it's a way of surviving.
“I think I had the the confidence of doing what I wanted to do. I don't know if I was completely confident about being a performer. Sometimes facing an audience is not easy.”
“I think that [fear and vulnerability] comes from separation from with my mother and I I was with my mother for a while, my natural mother, and I think that that was just... one of those things that's an animal thing.”
“I really felt like Chris and I were like a team. And I really had no inclination to go on. I really didn't. I just didn't envision myself as a solo artist. I never really wanted to be a solo artist, actually. I always wanted to be. In a band.”