First guest...Stanley Kubrick...pure brilliance Second Guest.......Crick and Watson (I believe they count as one)....how they made the leap to get the structure of the double helix And my final guest....ladies and gentleman......is Jack the Ripper (what a show-stopper to actually know who it is) Music to play out...One way (of life).... The Levellers.................. because there is only one way of life, your own, your own.
King Harold........geezer James Joyce......pure brain Steve Biko.........selfless commitment Dire Straits: Heavy Fuel
Neglected to give reasons for my choices. Soz Bill Hicks - would love to hear his take on the world today Shakespeare - what is the greatest poet, one of the most beautiful insights into the soul, like? Alfred - the 2nd greatest monarch (not of Britain of course but you get my point. Damn you Swords.) Kate Bush - she's an ethereal Goddess aint she
Superb thread DT.... King Henry Viii Ernest Hemingway Richard Burton The outro music would be performed by Keith and Candice Marie............... [video=youtube;daEocG2dKCU]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=daEocG2dKCU[/video]
JG Ballard one of my all time heroes, I would have his collected short stories on my desert island instead of the Bible 100 times out of 100. One of the truly original minds of the post war world. Great thread again Dave. I'm going to ponder this one.......
OK, trying to get a balance of people who would actually be interested in each other, so Parky could shut up with his inane toadying, and Ross could just shut up full stop. They have to be strong characters to live with my first guest.... John Lydon/Rotten, a self taught genius, fascinating on any subject followed by..... Peter Cook, the funniest man who ever lived, would be enthralled by the Rotten psyche and not at all intimidated by him........ and finally Christopher Hitchens, an iconoclast like the others, much broader than his atheist reputation would imply. Reserves in case of injury/ green room excess (likely in the case of Cook and Hitchens), JG Ballard (would have been in starting line up but gazumped by rrrrrrrs early in this thread), Roberto Bolano, author of some of the most dense but compelling fiction ever (and very funny with it - see his 'Nazi Literature in the Americas') and Aneurin Bevan (though I think he would be better on his own). And just for luck Jonathan Meades - look him up on YouTube, a rare beast who makes TV programmes that are art. Music - Led Zep playing 'In My Time of Dying', Johnny Rotten to join as they segue into Death Disco. I have been unable to get the Zep tune out of my head for weeks. [video=youtube_share;c6RnMCl5WZU]http://youtu.be/c6RnMCl5WZU[/video]
Can't resist posting this link to a Jonathan Meades piece on fast food, which though made years ago, brilliantly exposes the very British hypocrisy about our aversion to horse meat, when you see what we are prepared to put in our mouths. OK, he comes across as pretentious and is at his best on architecture, but he makes my world a richer place... [video=youtube_share;LHgsJrfThgM]http://youtu.be/LHgsJrfThgM[/video] PS its ****ing boring when you are in the wrong time zone to get involved in a debate/conversation on here, my sympathies to our antipodean friends.
The reading material's getting better and better mate. Nye Bevan!! That's a good 'un. Why didn't I think of him??
Some great shouts here. Bill Hicks( You beat me to him Pete, but I still want him there). Alan MacDonald. John Martyn (for the drink and madness). Music at end; Afrocelt Sound System http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BysnV5nGtsI
John Martyn, what an excellent call. Saw a documentary on him as he was recording in the run up to his leg amputation. Great musician and one of a kind.
Cheers sb. I saw that too. Also saw him here in Belfast shortly after the amputation and before his untimely death. Not a man to lie down under anything.
Its interesting that so many people have named a Monarch as one of their interviewees. Patriotism aside, in this day and age of liberalism, republicanism, socialism and all the other "isms" and "ists", people still like tradition and a linkage to the past. Good thread Oddball. Makes for intriguing reading. I'll go with: John Hume Leon Uris Sir Lesley, Knight of the Realm Playing out to Simple Mind's, Belfast Child. (P.S. Stan, that posh bloke is quite good. Also, I thought you'd go with Peter Hitchens instead of his Bro)
First guest: Boudicca - the first British heroine. Q: How did you get that chariot through width restrictions? Second guest: Woody Guthrie - from a time when successful musicians didn't live their lives in a bubble Third guest: Terry Venables - Probably the only living person who knows how to get rangers through more than one round of a cup competition Music by Fela Kuti - musician, politician, flawed genius
N22, good shout with Fela Kuti. His nephew lives in Dublin now but lived in Belfast for years, good mate of mine.(Belfast accent too!)
Winston Churchill H.G.Wells Oscar Wilde Played out by the original Rolling Stones line-up of Jagger, Richards, Jones, Wyman & Watts playing: [video=youtube;27ouOE4RvUc]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=27ouOE4RvUc[/video]
