tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1393674883919724980.post5638370533974367494..comments2023-07-16T10:42:00.694+01:00Comments on Psycho: Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12201420056461492643noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1393674883919724980.post-60456518570794989502012-03-12T12:11:07.563+00:002012-03-12T12:11:07.563+00:00well . . . personal experience is all i have to go...well . . . personal experience is all i have to go by . . .<br /><br />the only time i met martyn he was obnoxious - this was before i was a professional pop writer<br /><br />joe boyd i've met, too - not as a professional pop writer, either, but semi-socially - the idea that he had or has any class attitude is completely risible - as is the suggestion that he could have run a bank - as his own finances can attest - he is a delightful man, slightly naive if anything . . . <br /><br />i'd be interested to know what muff winwood has to say . . .Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12201420056461492643noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1393674883919724980.post-67087606541569228082012-03-12T11:06:23.133+00:002012-03-12T11:06:23.133+00:00Back in 2006 I interviewed John Martyn, and he had...Back in 2006 I interviewed John Martyn, and he had this to say about Beverley:<br /><br />Q: That album One World is an oasis of reflection, yet your marriage with Beverley was deteriorating at that very same time into violent confrontation. One would never be able to detect that back story on listening to it.<br /><br />A: You’re not supposed to. When I was playing, the more I’d be out of the house. When I recorded One World, Beverley couldn’t come to the sessions. We recorded it at yer man Chris Blackwell’s house. Vast grounds, lovely lake, a fine environment. It was my way of saying, it’s not all rock’n’roll and mirrors; I think she thought I was throwing televisions out of the window and banging hookers all night, none of which was the truth.<br /><br />Q: Did she resent the ending of her career while yours blossomed, leaving her stuck at home with the kids?<br /><br />A: It was awful. I didn’t do any of that by design. I was shocked when Muff Winwood said, ‘We’ll have you, but we can’t have Bev.’ I said, What’s the matter with her? ‘She sings flat.’ I thought, so do I from time. Whatever. That destroyed her somewhat and might have contributed to the deleterious relationship between us. I think she still believes I stole her career from her.<br /><br />Q: She implied on the BBC4 documentary about you, Johnny Too Bad, that you hijacked the sessions for her solo album Stormbringer.<br /><br />A: She was short a lot of songs. I wrote them. Somebody had to do it. Not for the life of me would I make a cold, calculated move to do that kind of thing. Joe Boyd produced Road To Ruin, and you’d see him at the mixing desk reading the Financial Times while we were singing. He resented me. I was far too working class for him, and had too much of a life going, whereas Joe’s a prosaic character. He’d have been far happier being a banker or owning a baseball team.Mathttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17246752079115265084noreply@blogger.com