Andrew Marr interviewing Hugh Laurie
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If Andrew Marr is going to interview musicians about their new releases, then perhaps he should engage someone who knows his rear end from his elbow to prepare intelligent questions for him to ask.
His first question to Hugh Laurie who has a new blues album out on 2nd May was to the effect "you have had a good life so far and made lots of money, why would you want to do a blues album"
He was serious too !
He continued to press the point throughout the interview. There was no reference to the songs on the album, the composers of said songs, the origins and vintage of the songs, the backing musicians and guest artists on the album. Goodness me, I have never had much regard for the competence or otherwise of the BBC in matters relating to the various styles of American popular music, but this interview hit a real low.
His first question to Hugh Laurie who has a new blues album out on 2nd May was to the effect "you have had a good life so far and made lots of money, why would you want to do a blues album"
He was serious too !He continued to press the point throughout the interview. There was no reference to the songs on the album, the composers of said songs, the origins and vintage of the songs, the backing musicians and guest artists on the album. Goodness me, I have never had much regard for the competence or otherwise of the BBC in matters relating to the various styles of American popular music, but this interview hit a real low.
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It was a legit question (Laurie agreed that it was) and Marr is a HUGE music fan, paying his own way to attend many of the summer festivals and not ligging off the BBC who have a presence at many of them.
What do you think Marr would have asked him if he had done a country music album ?
"Hugh Laurie you have never roped a steer in your life,you have never been involved in a gunfight at a saloon, why should you do a country and western album ?"
The question was indeed inane.
Yes, that too would have been a legit question if he chooses to do one.
Torpedoed your own nonsense there really. Without realising it which is a bit sad......
a) be able to sing
b) be qualified to do a blues album
so for those reasons, I'd say the question was perfectly legitimate and deserved an answer (not that I care in the slightest about Hugh Laurie, or his opinions. But I do respect Andrew Marr's intelligence and ability)
If you want to see real interviews you have to watch Inside The Actors Studio or stuff like that.
I love your shock at a BBC presenter actually paying to attend a concert.
AKA The Arse Kissing Show.
The Laurie one is very good.
Indeed.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zwgS1ctxglw
:eek::D Are you being serious? The host make Piers Morgan look like Paxman.
Talk about licking arse, every flop any actors been in is 'amazing and wonderful' according to him.
jees you think that's bad , you should have seen Louise(i've had a music career )Rednapp on Something for the weekend trying to interview Jennnifer Hudson and Imelda May. Listen to the answer before you spout your next question, you air head!
Do you really believe what you wrote ?
I have not torpedoed anything. The love of a particular type of music depends on whether a particular rhythm, combination of notes or style of lyrics "rings your bell"or makes the hairs on the back of the neck stand on end etc . It has nothing whatsoever to do with your own personal circumstances.
Blues fans like blues music because it excites them, simple as that. It has nothing to do with whether they have suffered depression at all in their lives and incidentally nothing to do with their race.
Marr's interview was inane nonsense.
You funny. Keep digging.
Oh well, in for a penny
At the end of the interview we were not one jot more informed about the CD. Is that good journalism or not ?
I think it was not.
You arse (funny word btw). Keep commenting.
Wow. Just WOW. Your sole contribution to the thread is to call someone a name. Classic.
Are your other postings of a similar high calibre?
As I said at the top, the website interview is longer so you never know, you might find that Marr acquitted himself more to your satisfaction there. Bottom line, Laurie himself admitted it was a question he had pondered ergo, it was not an inane question particularly given Laurie’s background as, if nothing else, a comedian!!
The comparison with country music doesn't really work. People don't ask genuine country singers if they lassoo steers or get involved with gunfights either, and the question Marr asked wasn't even slightly equivalent.
Marr didn't ask Laurie if he'd spent time mending levees or doing the same jobs as old bluesmen. He was talking about the emotional sentiments involved in singing the blues, not the lifestyle. One DOES associate many of the great blues singers as singing from an experience of genuine hardship. They mostly grew up poor and black in an era of segregation.
Laurie is a rich white man from a privileged background. He is well aware of this dichotomy himself, hence acknowledging the validity of the question.
Marr wasn't saying Laurie is incapable of singing the blues, he was just giving the man the chance to address a question that many viewers will be asking.
^ And we have a winner! Lock the thread now..........