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When people ask me who it is I'm most proud of interviewing, I invariably say Ennio Morricone. (In fact I said as much in my Payback interview with @NadineShah a few weeks ago.) 1/? http://tquiet.us/Morricone
I used to say this without giving it much thought. It's not my best interview and he isn't the most famous or wild person I've talked to. But then when I thought about it a few years ago I realised that until I talked to the Maestro, I don't really think my Mum and Dad 2/?
...fully understood what I did for work. My Dad was born in the early 30s and we had a difficult relationship at the best of times, so it's not like I was ever phoning him up saying: "Dad! SunnO))) have released an album with Nurse With Wound and I'm reviewing it!" 3/?
But when I was young (too young probably) I used to sit up with my Dad and watch loads of "Spaghetti Westerns" with him, and we'd talk about the music. The only conversations about music that weren't antagonistic that I remember having with him. So despite the gulf 4/?
... between us caused by age, temperament, lifestyle & health, Ennio Morricone was a colossal cultural figure to both of us. I remember phoning them up directly after hanging up on the composer and for the first time it was like: "Oh, we get it... you're not unemployed." 5/?
But this says something to me at least of the towering reach of Morricone and exemplifies all of the different fields he worked in for so long. (To be fair, my mum was impressed by Debbie Harry and Steve Davis as well.)
