Apologies for the lack of posts but I have been catching up with things after my holiday in Italy.  The latest episode of 25 was broadcast a couple of weeks ago, this time focusing on Prince's album Parade.  I was not involved in this episode, instead my buddy Simon and S-Endz, from the band Swami, helped Sam out with this one as I am not a knowledgeable on Prince than I am with the other artists/bands discussed on 25.  This could be Sam's best documentary yet.  It features Prince keyboardist Dr Fink, Prince uber fan Bill Oddie (yes, the Bill Oddie), Suede's Brett Anderson and many other worthy contributors.  The highlight is probably S-Endz talking about how the track Kiss evolved from being a track for the band Mazarati to a Prince song.  You can listen to it below.

I am already involved in locating material for next months 25 which will look at the R.E.M album Life's Rich Pageant.

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The latest in Xfm 25 documentaries is now available to listen to on MixCloud and features, amongst others, yours truly talking about the Depeche Mode album Black Celebration.  I usually shy away from being interviewed for things but was happy to be involved in this.  I had no idea how difficult it is to be interviewed, I am very glad that I prepared before Sam stuck the microphone in my face for 30 minutes.  As most people say, listening to your own voice is never a pleasurable thing and I still haven't listed to it all the way through.  That is mainly down to me not having time yet, think I will save that delight for tomorrow when I am writing up my latest PhD chapter.  The next 25 episode will focus on the Prince album Parade.

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