John Marr
speaker
104 appearances
1 recordings
1 series
first heard Jul 2026
last heard 25 Jul
John Marr’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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Absolutely.
And, you know, the other, I mean, there was suggestions, for instance, Malcolm McLaren had tried something relatively similar in that era.
And there were, you know, suggestions that he wasn't paying the local artists as much as he should have.
And, of course, music history is littered
with big name artists who did not pay the session players as much as they should.
I mean, that was a charge often level at David Bowie in the 1970s, for instance.
But Paul Simon always, I think, had a sense of fairness about him.
And certainly, you know, he brought these acts together.
to a global audience.
Yeah, it's very funny.
The video is hilarious as well because he's kind of sporting the Paul Simon uniform, which is a kind of a slightly oversized blazer with a baseball cap.
It's kind of Larry David on speed in a way.
It's very, very funny.
I think it's kind of it pokes fun at it in a way that we can all relate to.
I think it stands up incredibly well.
He played a couple of songs from it in the three arena and they just sounded remarkable.
And I think at one point he had three percussionists on stage to kind of create that sound again.
And remember, this is an 84-year-old doing this and it still sounded incredible.
Impeccable.
I suppose, in a way, it took him well outside his comfort zone.
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