01 May 2010 BBC Radio 2- The Record Producers
Hi All
Just to say that the BBC Radio program featuring myself will be broadcast on Radio 2 at 10 pm on 3rd May 2010 and will also be featured on BBC 6 Music the following Sunday.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b00s7mc1
It was intended to play a 20 second segment of an out take demo that I recorded with Morrissey in the program but Friday afternoon (30th April) both the BBC and myself received a letter from Morrissey’s solicitors threatening an immediate injunction preventing any broadcast unless the material was removed.
Apparently their client (Morrissey) was ‚horrified that the proposed material would be broadcast‘. I can not understand this way of thinking at all. Throughout the program I am extremely in full praise of Morrissey and the demo was intended to show that even when he was singing on a 4 track cassette he still sounded great! I didn’t think it would do any harm to play a small segment but it has, at this very late stage been removed. I would also like to say that I’ve seen mention of some Viva Hate demos being available on the internet. How they got there, god only knows! I have certainly never distributed any out take recordings or demos on the ’net and I’d be interested to know who did?!
The producer of the program, Steve Levine, has told me that throughout all the other episodes including artists such as Paul MacCartney, Holland, Dozier, Holland (Motown), Bruce Springsteen and Phil Collins, rough demos have been played with their blessing and this is the first time they have been threatened with an injunction. These artists have realised that the program isn’t about them, it’s about the producer and the work involved in taking a song from ‚demo‘ stage to the finished article, and as such, the playing of rare demos or out-takes is incredibly interesting. Oh well, some things (or people) never change!
Nevermind, I’ve been assured that the program will still be a good one! Hopefully you will enjoy!
Cheers!
Stephen
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