Simon Frith
Simon Frith
Simon Frithis a British sociomusicologist, and former rock critic, who specializes in popular music culture. He is Tovey Chair of Music at University of Edinburgh...
eligible listen listening records
We just listen to the records we are given. If he wasn't eligible then we wouldn't have been listening to it.
anybody coming obvious seem
It doesn't seem to have any obvious place where it's coming from - and yet play it to anybody and they're arrested.
album anyone decided fail heard listened mercury move record
The album was deemed eligible, we listened to it and we decided it could not fail to move anyone who heard it. That's what a Mercury record should be all about.
anybody mercury record sound
It is the most extraordinary album. It doesn't sound like anything else around. I don't think anybody could be unmoved by it, which is a what a Mercury record should be all about.
winner
I never ever think we have got a winner wrong.