This is Spectator Radio and you're listening to Life and Arts with Dominic Green for Spectator USA.

Hello, I'm Dominic Green. I'm Life and Arts editor of Spectator USA and I'd like to welcome you to the Green Room, our weekly life and arts podcast.

This week, I'm casting the pod with Jay Glennie.

He's the author of Performance, the 50th anniversary of the Donald Camel and Nicholas Rogue cinematic classic.

And to listeners who were there in the 60s and can't quite remember what performance was,

it's a film mixing rock stars and gangsters as swinging London comes to pieces.

Written by Donald Camel, directed by Camel with Nicholas Roagg,

and starring Mick Jagger as Turner, a reclusive rock star,

and James Fox as Chaz, a gangster on the run.

Jay Glennie, welcome to Spectator USA.

Hello, thank you for heaven.

So how did you come to be making the 50th anniversary tribute to performance?

I had worked with the producer, Sandy Leibson, on a previous book on The Man That Fell to Earth,

and when I presented him with the large format book for that film, he said we should

collaborate on a book for performance.

It was key for me that I wanted to keep the same format, which is large format, many, many

unseen images and then interview as many of the principal cast and crew as possible

to tell the story aligned with the images. So I asked Sand, you know, what did he have in his archives?

And he invited me down to his house and just pulled out this treasure trove of archival material

covered into dust that had been kept away for many, many years,

and I knew then that we had a project.

Then it was key to ask Nick Back, Nick Rogue, the co-director, and Mick Jagger and James Fox.

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