Paul Morley
Paul Morley
Paul Robert Morleyis an English music journalist. He wrote for the New Musical Express from 1977 to 1983 and has since written for a wide range of publications. He has also been a band manager and promoter as well as a television presenter...
age age-and-aging group space year
We wanted to be like a group would be in the year 2000, ... a space age group -- computers, masks, mystery, technology. That's kind of the group we were in 1983.
across advantage becomes crooked cuts everyday face fashion hypocrisy identify people quite small tough
Everything they said she has to be she's contradicted. She's small and has a tough look, her face is quite crooked and that becomes an advantage because everyday people can identify with her. She cuts across the aloofness and hypocrisy of the fashion world.
good pop source summarize
was a good mascot for us to use to summarize 20th-century music. You know how most pop groups, they go back about 20 or 30 years for their source material.
century future last
to go back to the end of the last century to go into the future.
thinking people marketing
The corporations have all their marketing tools, but it's so much better to go in and find out what's going on and what people are thinking.
musician world online
I always thought that pop groups were going to be made up in the 21st century. It wouldn't be four musicians, as such. Especially in the online world, with the worlds that are opening up.
world different presenting
There's different ways of presenting a pop group to the world. It doesn't have to be the same old poses.
kind odd possibility
It's kind of great being a group without a lead singer, because the possibilities are sky high. Odd things become the lead singer, noises become the lead singer. It actually makes the thing much more flexible.
marketing world different
The remix culture became very much controlled by the corporate world, it's a marketing tool mostly, to create mixes for different genres. So it's very soul-less in a way.
musical shadow done
I'm not denying that in the world there's been some tremendous musical happenings, like DJ Shadow or whatever, that kind of thing. But when it goes into the weird thing where you get a remix done by a certain person because they need a brand name, that's when it becomes really discouraging.
interesting people important
It's going to be an interesting dilemma for certain corporations. They've worked so hard to make themselves important in the way music goes out into the world, but it's completely irrelevant when people can get their music in a different way.
thinking brain internet
I think the internet and the web is just like a big consciousness of the planet, a big brain of the planet.
soul
Essentially the soul of the planet is being controlled by corporations.
possibility
There's endless possibilities to taking music into the future by using music that actually was 100 years old.