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Marcus O’Dair

Different Every Time

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Robert Wyatt started out as the drummer and singer for Soft Machine, who shared a residency at Middle Earth with Pink Floyd and toured America with the Jimi Hendrix Experience. He brought a jazz mindset to the 1960’s rock scene, having honed his drumming skills in a shed at the end of Robert Graves’ garden in Mallorica, Spain.
Wyatt's life took an abrupt turn in 1973, when he fell from a fourth-floor window at a party and was paralyzed from the waist down. He reinvented himself as a singer and composer with the extraordinary album Rock Bottom, which he followed with an idiosyncratic string of records that uniquely combine the personal and political.
Along the way, Robert has worked with the likes of Brian Eno, Bjork, Jerry Dammers, Charlie Haden, David Gilmour, Paul Weller and Hot Chip. Marcus O’Dair has talked to all of them—indeed anyone who has shaped, or been shaped by Wyatt over five decades. Different Every Time is the first biography of Robert Wyatt, and it was written with his full participation. It includes illustrations by Alfreda Benge and photographs from Robert’s personal archive.
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721 printed pages
Original publication
2015
Publication year
2015
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  • Ira Erthas quoted9 years ago
    It’s perfectly accepted by everyone from poets to politicians’, as Wyatt himself has said, ‘that they mature as they get older. This is accepted, especially in really important things like wine and brandy – serious stuff.’
  • Ira Erthas quoted9 years ago
    God, what an idiot I was when I was forty. I thought I’d really got it. What did I know when I was forty?” And the same when I was fifty. And then, when I got to sixty, I
  • Ira Erthas quoted9 years ago
    thought, “I never knew anything! I didn’t know anything, right up till now. But now I do.”’

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