Episode 32 - Mike Stock

Sodajerker On Songwriting

Sodajerker

Music, Music Interviews

4.8 • 912 Ratings

🗓️ 2 January 2013

⏱️ 68 minutes

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Summary

Mike Stock of Stock, Aitken and Waterman joins Sodajerker to talk about the writing of songs like 'Say I'm Your Number One' (Princess); 'Showing Out (Get Fresh at the Weekend)', 'Respectable' (Mel and Kim); 'Never Gonna Give You Up' (Rick Astley); 'I Should Be So Lucky', 'Better the Devil You Know' (Kylie Minogue); 'This Time I Know It's For Real' (Donna Summer), and other 'Hit Factory' smashes for artists like Cliff Richard, Jason Donovan and Bananarama.

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0:00.0	The Greetings my excellent friends and welcome to another number one podcast from the soda jerker hip factory.
0:23.7	Today our guest is one of pop's most prominent purveyors, Mike Stark of Stark Aiken and Morterman.
0:28.8	Very excited to have Mike on the show.
0:30.8	Definitely, Mike's work helped to define a certain period in British music history, the sound of a bright young Britain and all that.
0:37.6	Those heady days of scints and suits, the high energy dance boom of the 1980s and we could probably fairly be described as
0:45.2	members of the Carly and Jason generation couldn't we? Good name for a band.
0:49.1	Yeah. But you're right yeah not to mention that Mike provided the soundtrack to many of our school discos.
0:55.0	Not literally, he didn't like DJ them.
0:57.0	Yeah, he was on the wheels of steel or anything.
0:59.0	We've come to appreciate his talents a great deal over the years,
1:02.0	especially since we became
1:03.0	songwriters ourselves. That's right, Mike was born in Margate in Kent in 1951.
1:08.1	He is one third of the songwriting and production team Stock Aiken and Waterman aka SAW which comprised Mike
1:16.0	Stock Matt Aiken and Pete Waterman the team achieved extraordinary success in the
1:20.9	1980s and 1990s with hit songs for artists like Banana Rama, Melan
1:25.9	Kim, Rick Astley, Kylie Minogue, Jason Donovan, and already established acts like Donna
1:31.6	Summer and Cliff Richard as well.
1:33.8	Mike has written 18 number one records in America in the UK and over 100 top 40 hits.
1:39.9	He also produced a lot of them too.
1:41.8	That's right.
1:42.4	Mike Stock has been recognized by the Guinness Book of Records
1:45.3	as the most successful songwriter, producer in British chart history.
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