BMA Podcasts:
Interview with Chris Phipps
I was lucky enough to meet with Chris Phipps who gave up half an hour of his time to talk to me on Saturday following his introductory talk at the Flatpack Festival on the Led Zeppelin film The Song Remains The Same which Capsule programmed as part of their Home of Metal Archive project – http://www.homeofmetal.com. Chris is exactly the type of person the archive aims to highlight and recognise. As you will hear in the podcasts, Chris is a Brummie who has some 50 odd years working in the music industry with some of biggest names in the business and has had a rich mix of jobs, from booking bands to producing radio programmes to making music documentaries, but for me it’s his role as Producer of the legendary Tube TV programme in the 80’s that I’m most thankful to him for (especially for booking The Very Things which got me onto The Tube) it was essential viewing. My only regret…running out of time I could have spent all night talking to Chris. Next time!!
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This comment was from Deepinder Cheema but posted under the wrong post: Good to see Chris Phipps is still alive. I remember him from BBC Radio WM I think it was just called ( A stupid name) talking to an elderly biddy about her Netsuke collection, then seeing him spin some discs at Romeo & Juliet’s Hurst St before ‘Money’ came on 1980, and then at Ronnie Scotts by the old Bingley Hall at the Mothers reunion bash in about 1997. He was wasted on the Tube, which ushered in the era of crap records and Record company panderings , especially Scottish music like ‘Set the Tone’, Big Country, and Jimmy Shand every bloody week. Leave me alone with my Tubby Hayes, Mothers of Invention and my Mighty Baby discs.