BBC Radio 4 'Tusk' documentary tomorrow

[tango87]

Hi Ledgies, I don't know if you've heard about this radio documentary but it sounds rather interesting - it's on BBC Radio tomorrow morning at 11.30am:

'Follow-Up Albums

Music critic Pete Paphides tells the story behind three 'follow-up' albums - from Dexys Midnight Runners, Fleetwood Mac and Suede - with tales of musical pressure, creative differences, personal politics and mixed results.

How many bands have found themselves with a massive and often unexpected hit album, only to struggle with the creation of their next opus? Sometimes the follow-up exceeds the first album, but often nerves kick in and bands are removed from the very stimulus that created their magic in the first place, finding themselves in a world of creative confusion, sycophants and accountants.

Pete Paphides talks to musicians, producers, and critics to explore the stories of follow-up albums with the same expert knowledge he brought to Lost Albums.

Programme 2: Fleetwood Mac - Tusk

How do you follow a record that sells 21 million copies worldwide and spends over 30 weeks at number one in the US album chart?

The answer is Tusk - the album Fleetwood Mac recorded in the wake of 1976's Rumours.

Despite joining the band just three years previously, this was the record that saw Lindsey Buckingham impose his will on Fleetwood Mac using the studio as a crucible in which he shovelled intra-band infidelities and his new-found love of punk.

In 1979 it was deemed a failure, nicknamed "Lindsey's folly" from industry insiders. After 35 years, it has been reappraised as their boldest, most forward-looking release, "a peerless piece of pop art", influencing Radiohead and REM.

Broadcast:
Thu 24 May 2012 11:30 BBC Radio 4.'

http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b01hxpxp

I'm expect non-UK Ledgies can listen on the internet, but don't quote me.

I've heard a short trailer which features a new-sounding interview with Lindsey, but even so I'm sure we should expect to hear about 'Christmas bonuses flying out the window...'