Want a laugh on a dull Monday morning? The BBC website runs down the Top 7 most awkward music interviews on Newsnight. They are all definitely worth a watch and quite a few are comedy gold. I love Car Crash interviews, I favourite of mine was Shirley McLaine being interviewed on Radio 4’s Front Row about five years ago where she went off on one explaining that the End of Days were approaching in 2012, how she liked shagging Prime Ministers and Presidents, and how she was a reincarnation of Cleopatra or something. Anyone got other favourites of the genre?
http://www.bbc.co.uk/music/articles/56dceee7-f624-45fa-84ec-7ca8cf158a
davebigpicture says
Robert Elms attempts to interview Ginger Baker.
H.P. Saucecraft says
“The interviewer is a disgrace” – from comments:
Johnny Concheroo says
Worse than the interview (and the rubbish Ovation guitars) is when it cuts back to the studio and those simpering bedwetters from Depeche Mode are having a good old laugh at the hippies.
H.P. Saucecraft says
I still can’t get me ‘ead around Ellen’s club-footed introduction – “a couple of seventies rock stars”. In 1984. He was lucky not to have those fibreglass monstrosities bounced off his boyish fifth-Beatle barnet.
Johnny Concheroo says
I believe the intro/outro was filmed after the event and Page/Harper had left.
Ellen tells the full story about how the dilettante old rockers were late, kept him hanging around etc, on one of the old podcasts. Hence he felt that gave him the green light to mercilessly take the piss.
H.P. Saucecraft says
No – you can see how they react to his “seventies” remark. That wasn’t in post, no matter what ME says.
Poppy Succeeds says
I love the ones where the talent gets upset by perfectly reasonable questions eg the recent Cara Delevingne kerfuffle.
Interviewed about some film she was starring in, she took offence at being asked if she’d read the book on which it’s based, and immediately became stroppy, as though the question was an insult to her intelligence, when…
A.) It’s by no means a given that she’s read the book.
B.) An interviewer should never assume (it makes an ass out of your and me)
C.) It was no doubt just a preamble to another, ever-so-slightly more penetrating question about the material.
Upshot: she looked like a brat (and maybe someone who secretly hadn’t read the book).
deramdaze says
Maybe I got a different edit of that Jimmy Page/Roy Harper interview.
Was Mark Ellen taking the piss? I can’t say I particularly picked up on that, and the interview stopped before any reaction from Depeche Mode.
Actually, as someone who hates Led Zeppelin with a passion, it was the first time I’ve ever actually warmed to Jimmy Page.
Johnny Concheroo says
I watched it live the first time around on OGWT. When it cut back to the studio there was much hilarity from the Depeche boys going on, most of it at Page and Harper’s expense.
Was the interview to promote the Whatever Happened to Jugula album? Not a great record, I must confess,
Black Celebration says
I have just tried to find the clip with Depeche Mode and I came up with nothing. But I have seen it and my recollection is that they were responding to Jimmy Page’s comments – and weren’t particularly disrespectful.
Black Type says
This one was pretty frosty…or perhaps I should say ‘snowy’:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G4_0bVgIRjg
And here… ‘living only in theory’:
And here…awkward.