Hello, I'm Kresse Young, and this is a podcast from the Desert Island Discs archive.

For rights reasons, we've had to shorten the music.

The program was originally broadcast in 2009. My castaway this week is the impresario Harvey Goldsmith. He was the organizational brains behind

live aid in 1985 and live 8 20 years later. From Bob Dylan to Led Zeppelin to

Pavarotti with pretty well every other name and music in between

he's been one of our top promoters for more than 40 years his career has given him a unique

insight into music history he was there after all when Keith Moon threw his first TV out of

a hotel window. Always passionate about what he's listened to, his own instrument

he says is the pocket calculator. I just realized I had a talent for understanding music

and what the public wanted. I was always determined it wasn't just the

artist site but I consider the public site when putting on a show.

Do tell me Harvey about the Keith Moon moment then when he sacrificed his first

telly what actually happened?

I think it was the Leicester post house that we were at there was a swimming pool

directly below we were on he was on about the six or seventh floor or something

like that a little bit of an argument started. He obviously was very angry and he literally

picked the television up open the window and just dumped it and when it landed in

the pool he just shouted out of bullseye.

When you were watching it happened did you think this is an extension of his sort of

creativity it's in some way a man expressing himself beyond the bounds of what most of us

I think is acceptable behavior or did you just think he's self-indulgent and he's

behaving like an idiot? It was more like panic to be honest.

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