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Ivor Randle
In the 1970s there was a popular vinyl album on which the Geoff Love Orchestra played “Great War Movie Themes.” When I heard the theme to Lawrence of Arabia it made me want to know more. Music does...view moreIn the 1970s there was a popular vinyl album on which the Geoff Love Orchestra played “Great War Movie Themes.” When I heard the theme to Lawrence of Arabia it made me want to know more. Music does things like that to me. I went to the old 1950s set of encyclopaedias we had in the house and looked up this fella Lawrence. He has rather haunted me ever since. I am very glad to have got The Melt written and I hope that were he to read it he would be suitably dismissive of its literary failings and enjoyably intrigued by the life I set out for him.
Oh, me? I don’t really want to write about myself here. I’m not shy. I’m too modest to think I have anything to be modest about and too arrogant to care that that was a horrible line. As was that.
From Crewe, so some railway time under my belt. Left that and became a busker. Left that and went to Dartington College of Arts. Always had to work to eat. Still do.
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