Here's a
complete transcription of the 5 minute TV Show "Music
of the Millennium", shown on Channel 4 [UK] at 1.50am,
12 August 1999{GMT}
This show featured Johnny Marr, talking about Phil Spector.
*****
Opening credits *****
*music of the millennium*
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JM-"Hi, I'm
Johnny Marr. I'm gonna be talking about a musician who
influenced me - it's Phil Spector"
#music:
drum intro-'Be my baby'-The Ronettes#
(Marr mimics drum beats-Bump! Bum-Bump!-Kerch! Bump!
Bum-Bump!-Kerch!)
#'The night we met I knew I,'#
JM-"The
Ronettes' records were very, very hip."
#'..needed
you so..'#
JM-"I
heard something in those records that was very obviously
missing from the records that was being made in the late
70s."
#'So
won't you say you love me'#
JM-"The
Mega Instrumentation and passion. And an obsessive
inventiveness."
#'So
won't you please...(be my, be my,) be my little baby...'#
JM-"The
Ramones have got a story about how, when they wanted him to
produce 'Rock and Roll High School' they went up to his
house for a few days and erm, he had all these guards around
with guns and he wouldn't let them out and all the rest of
it. But eventually he got to make the record and the very
first song (laughingly), 'Rock and Roll High School' -the
opening chord: he got them to play it all day. Over and over
and over again. Getting this chord right. Seventeen hours.
And when you listen to it. It sounds like the best chord
I've ever heard."
#music:
Intro-(School bell. 'The best chord Johnny Marr has ever
heard'. Drums)-'Rock and Roll High School' - The Ramones#
JM-"He
famously made 'River deep Mountain high' with Ike and Tina
Turner. And, quite rightly, regard it as one of the best
records that had ever been made."
#music:
Intro- 'River deep - Mountain high' - Ike & Tina Turner#
#'When I was a little girl I had a rag doll, only doll I've
ever owned...'#
JM-"And the
emotion level's kind of like that"[indicates chest
level with hand]
#'Now
I love you just the way I loved that rag doll...'#
JM-"It gets
more emotive, and more emotive and more
emotive..."[indicates levels rising in steps]
"...until you actually think the record's gonna
explode."
#'And
it gets longer in everyway...And it gets deeper, let me
say...#
JM-"It's the
sound of one person, one fairly mad person, with a mad
vision, and that's why the records sound the way they
do."
#'Do
I love you? My oh my. Yeah - River deep, mountain high! Yeah
Yeah Yeah!'#
JM-"They're
erm, almost Gothic really. And they're dripping in
intensity."
#'Oh
I love you baby,..'#
JM-"Why be
subtle about an idea when you can just hammer someone over
the head with it?"
*****Closing
credits*****
*music of the millennium*
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