Episode 156 - Martin Fry
Sodajerker On Songwriting
Sodajerker
4.8 • 912 Ratings
🗓️ 22 January 2020
⏱️ 42 minutes
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Summary
ABC's Martin Fry describes the writing of his classic album The Lexicon Of Love including songs like 'The Look Of Love', 'Poison Arrow', 'Tears Are Not Enough' and 'All Of My Heart'. During the conversation, Martin also tells the story behind his beloved hit 'When Smokey Sings' and explains how he approached the daunting task of creating The Lexicon of Love II.
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| 0:00.0 | And the Hello and welcome to So Dijaker on songwriting episode 156. |
| 0:23.5 | Joining us today is an English singer and songwriter |
| 0:26.0 | whose career spans almost four decades |
| 0:28.4 | as the enviably debonair frontman of ABC, |
| 0:31.1 | he scored 10 UK and 5 US top 40 singles between 1981 and 1990 while |
| 0:36.7 | this seminal album The Lexicon of Love was UK number one and has since taken its |
| 0:40.5 | rightful place in the pantheon of all-time great pop records. |
| 0:44.0 | We're delighted to welcome the fantastic Martin Fry to the show. |
| 0:47.5 | We met with Martin backstage at Birmingham Symphony Hall |
| 0:50.5 | where he was getting ready to perform the whole of the |
| 0:52.5 | Lexicon of Love album with a full orchestra conducted by Anne Dudley. |
| 0:56.4 | Yeah, she arranged the strings on the original record of course. |
| 1:00.4 | She did. |
| 1:01.4 | And our former guest Trevor Horn produced that album and I think we mentioned in the intro to that episode how much we love it. |
| 1:06.6 | Yeah, well it's a firm favourite isn't it at So the Jerker Towers. |
| 1:09.3 | Mm-hmm. I think it set a new benchmark really the Nifopop record making |
| 1:14.0 | Oh absolutely great tunes intelligent lyrics pristine production |
| 1:18.1 | it's got everything yeah great arrangements musicianship and of course popularisedised gold lame suit. |
| 1:24.0 | I'm actually wearing mine right now. |
| 1:25.8 | Looks good on you. |
| 1:26.7 | Thank you. |
| 1:27.7 | Martin was born in Stratford, Manchester in 1958 and grew up in nearby Stockport. |
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