The Welcome everybody to episode 95 of so-de-jaker on songwriting. This is Brian here with my soul brother Simon

and joining us today is an Ivan Novello winning songwriter, singer, drummer and

pioneering music video director. As a founding member of 10ccc.C and one half of Godly and cream, he had a pivotal role

in some of the most entertaining and startlingly original pop music of the 70s and 80s,

before branching out into the realm of music video, where his work proved equally innovative.

We are delighted to welcome the brilliant Kevin Godley to the show.

You may remember we spoke to his former band,

Ma'ameh Graham Goldman, way back in episode 30.

So we thought it was high time we viewed the remarkable Tensey

Yuva from another key player's perspective.

Yeah, that original incarnation is kind of viewed in terms of

they being too distinct writing partnerships, isn't it?

Yeah. He had Goldman and Stewart and Godly and Cream with the latter viewed as the more sort of

artsier experimental pair. However, I think that's simplifying things somewhat isn't it? There was a lot of overlap on those records in terms of the writing combinations and who sang on what.

Definitely, they all got involved in each other songs and to the betterment of the finished product.

I'm very fond of a lot of the later Godly and Cream stuff too. I think I mentioned in the Goldman episode that my dad had the changing faces compilation on cassette and he played a lot around a house when I was a kid so I have fond memories of hearing an Englishman in New York and under your

thumb and wedding bells and cry of course yeah that video was on TV a lot when we were

kids in the mid-80s and still looks great today as well doesn't it?

Does indeed I think Michael Jackson knows

a bit of a death doesn't he for black or white. Yeah anyway we'll hear from

Mr Godley in a few minutes but first a short bio. Kevin Godley was born in

Prestwich Lancashire in 1945 and grew up in Altringham.

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