She Was Legend

Firstly, Awesome!

Secondly, electronic music != dance music, nor does it = "electronica". I never saw anyone dancing to Stockhausen. I never heard anyone listening to him either, but that's beside the point.

Weird coinkydink, I did my own version of the Who theme a few days back, just to hear a new version that was properly electronic (just mucking about, it's nowhere near the awesome that's Derbyshire or Howell obviously), but I'm so sick of them constantly upping the damned orchestra in the new ones. The FoxTV version is the worst (surprise!) but Murrey Gold's 2008 job is a step too far in that direction. Less tumpty-tumpty f***ing cellos and more weird bloops please!

Just to AW for a moment, this is my version (^) if anyone wants to point and laugh!

Arthur the Sandwich Maker:
Weird coinkydink, I did my own version of the Who theme a few days back, just to hear a new version that was properly electronic

I suppose you've heard Orbital's version right? That's my favorite version of the theme. Of course, I've been a life long Orbital fan since the green album...

FTA: 'She carried out pioneering work for the BBC Radiophonic Workshop in the early 1960s, producing the familiar Doctor Who signature tune and collaborating with Brian Jones and Jimi Hendrix among others.'

Why do I think this is bullshait? The article offers no proof that she did, no listing of songs or albums with the collaborations.

Considering this was my fourth piece of crappy Brit journalism Ive read in the past ten minutes I have a feeling that 'journalism' doesnt mean what they think it means.

These articles make USA TODAY look like the LA TIMES

Hey, Arthur the Sandwich Maker:

I dig it. What'd you use? Synths? Computer?

Nice work!

mfaby: FTA: 'She carried out pioneering work for the BBC Radiophonic Workshop in the early 1960s, producing the familiar Doctor Who signature tune and collaborating with Brian Jones and Jimi Hendrix among others.'

Why do I think this is bullshait? The article offers no proof that she did, no listing of songs or albums with the collaborations.


Yep, it's The Times using coked up eejits again. The closest I could find to Derbyshire working with Hendrix was a comment that they shared a bill together (new window), again without evidence.

More (old) information and apparently some tunes here (new window).

I suppose there's always a chance that Derbyshire had exaggeratedly claimed to have worked with Hendrix, but without any references to sources it does suck a big one.

Considering this was my fourth piece of crappy Brit journalism Ive read in the past ten minutes I have a feeling that 'journalism' doesnt mean what they think it means.

These articles make USA TODAY look like the LA TIMES

My commiserations - our press is aged and blinkered, even on t'internet.

OOoh, btw, the John Peel reworking (^) on the delia-derbyshire.org site is fantastic in my opinion!

/Preposterous!

Arthur the Sandwich Maker: Secondly, electronic music != dance music, nor does it = "electronica". I never saw anyone dancing to Stockhausen. I never heard anyone listening to him either, but that's beside the point.

I totally agree, and I would have said that any connection between Derbyshire and dance music was spurious... if I hadn't heard this from a BBC story this week (short audio). No date on that track, but it's at least thirty-five years old. Damn.

Dunno about Hendrix, but she did most definitely work with Paul McCartney (who was totally into stuff like Faust at the time as well, I kid you not), and then there's...

Q: You worked with Yoko Ono for a while. What was that all about?

Derbyshire: Yes, I did a film soundtrack for Yoko Ono. While she slept on my floor.

Q: That must have been 66-ish.

Derbyshire: No, later than that. It would be '67 or '68. It was about the same time that she met John Lennon. Because when we were having our or... oh... orgy on the carpet.

From an interview which also answers the Brian Jones question - he dropped into the workshop for a day.