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Disruptors

Steven Wilson: The Most Underrated Musician Ever! Porcupine Tree Founder Reveals All

Disruptors

Rob Moore

Careers, How To, Business, Self-improvement, Society & Culture, Marketing, Investing, Education, Entrepreneurship

4.81.4K Ratings

🗓️ 29 August 2022

⏱️ 106 minutes

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Summary

Rob is joined by the King of Progressive Rock, Porcupine Tree founder, Steven Wilson. This is an honest and frank interview, with the ‘most famous non-famous musician ever! Steven reveals to Rob: His thoughts on Radiohead, Muse, Coldplay and Bowie His honest opinions on the music industry Why he is not interested in money Why he left the band back in 2010 and what was behind its reformation Also featured… The Pros and Cons of being an underrated musician The reductive nature of categorising musicians The obligations creatives have to their audience BEST MOMENTS “I come from a condition of people who have operated outside of the mainstream and revelled in that” “I wanted to be a pop star, but not at any cost, I wanted integrity” “Now to reach a large audience you have to have so much impact in so many areas” “If you’re gonna fail, fail on your own terms” “None of us are islands, we all have shared experiences” “I make a very good living at what I do, by being selfish” VALUABLE RESOURCES https://robmoore.com/ bit.ly/Robsupporter   https://robmoore.com/podbooks  rob.team  ABOUT THE HOST Rob Moore is an author of 9 business books, 5 UK bestsellers, holds 3 world records for public speaking, entrepreneur, property investor, and property educator. Author of the global bestseller “Life Leverage” Host of UK’s No.1 business podcast “Disruptors” “If you don't risk anything, you risk everything” CONTACT METHOD Rob’s official website: https://robmoore.com/ Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/robmooreprogressive/?ref=br_rs LinkedIn: https://uk.linkedin.com/in/robmoore1979 disruptive, disruptors, entreprenuer, business, social media, marketing, money, growth, scale, scale up, risk, property: http://www.robmoore.com

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0:53.0

Welcome to disruptors. I'm Rob Moore, and on the show we have the King of Progressive Rock.

1:00.0

It is official Google it. Stephen Wilson is the most famous non-famous musician ever, and we talk about everything.

1:07.0

We talk about the music industry, about radiohead, about muse, about co-play.

1:13.0

Have the music industry has radically changed over the last 30 years.

1:16.0

Have Stephen Wilson is not interested in making money.

1:19.0

It surprised me that Stephen holds nothing about talking about radiohead, muse, Chris Martin and co-play.

1:24.0

He talks about why he left the band porky pine tree, why he reformed and the uncertain future of pop music.

1:31.0

Oh, and I'm a massive fan, so you probably see a side to me you've not seen before.

1:36.0

Stephen, are you the most underrated musician ever?

1:42.0

I think I come from a tradition of people that have operated outside of the mainstream.

1:49.0

And kind of reveled in that, so in the sense that if you exist outside of the mainstream,

1:54.0

then you're not beholden to this kind of issue and problem of coming up with hits.

2:01.0

I don't have any hits.

2:03.0

One of the reasons I'm fortunate when I go on tour with my band with this porky pine tree, one of my solo tours,

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