Paul Morley
Paul Robert Morley (born 26 March 1957) is an English music journalist. He wrote for the New Musical Express from 1977 to 1983 and has since written for a wide range of publications. He has also been a band manager and promoter as well as a television presenter.
Early life
Morley was born in Farnham, Surrey, and moved with his family to Eccles, Lancashire, before starting school. He was educated at Stockport Grammar School, at the time a direct grant grammar school, and the Royal Academy of Music.
Career
Morley wrote for three Manchester area magazines in the late 1970s, Penetration, Out There and Girl Trouble. He then went on to write for NME, where he and colleagues such as Ian Penman developed an innovative style of music criticism that drew on critical theory and other non-musical sources.
For a period of time, Morley produced and managed Manchester punk band the Drones. However, he first came to wider attention with a brief appearance in the video for ABC's "The Look of Love" (in which he mimes the words "what's that?" in a call-and-response routine with singer Martin Fry), but he achieved notoriety as co-founder, with Trevor Horn, of ZTT Records and electronic group Art of Noise.
Podcasts:
Paul Morley
ALBUMS
- LateNightTales: Metronomy released: 2012
- The Art of the 12", Volume Two: A Promotion of a Way of Life released: 2012
- LateNightTales: Belle and Sebastian, Volume 2 released: 2012
- LateNightTales: MGMT released: 2011
- LateNightTales: Trentemøller released: 2011
LateNightTales: Metronomy
Released 2012- Prototype
- Drunk
- Cosmic Ball
- El Bozo, Part 1
- Blue Flowers
- Cache Vocal
- Hypnose
- Seabird
- Fold4,Wrap5
- Weather the Windmill
- Eye in the Sky
- Love Caboose
- You Are...
- Cybernaut
- Forever
- The Day (We Fell in Love)
- Complainte pour Ste. Catherine
- Winners Lose
- Werewolf
- Lost for Words, Part 4
- Metronomy Late Night Tales (Continuous mix)
The Art of the 12", Volume Two: A Promotion of a Way of Life
Released 2012- Absolute (Version, by Gary Langan)
- Close Up
- Sorry for Laughing (Alvin Clarke 12" mix)
- He He Radical (Episode 2)
- 10th Wonder (rough mix, extract)
- What It Is (Live Instrumental Wonder)
- Every Kinda People (Parts I, II and III)
- Hé Stranger (Parts I, II and III)
- Moments in Love (Massey Mix Three)
- Ooops (Utsula Head mix)
- Relax (Man Has a Sense for the Discovery of Beauty)
- Frankie Goes to Hollywood: History
- Close Up (Hop)
- Dr Mabuse (special instrumental mix)
- The Impossible Net (extract)
LateNightTales: Belle and Sebastian, Volume 2
Released 2012- Ominous Cloud
- Watch the Flowers Grow
- A Time for Us
- Yèkèrmo Sèw (A Man of Experience and Wisdom)
- Tudo Que Você Podia Ser
- Et Si Je T'Aime
- Bird of Space
- Soul Vibrations
- Tomorrow's People
- Quitters Raga
- Chord Simple
- Savage Sea
- Starless and Bible Black
- Darling Be Home Soon
- Crash
- L.S.D. Partie
- Still Sound
- Rude Bwoy Thug Life
- Scottish Widows
- Streets of Derry
- Spinning Wheel
- Homosapien (dub)
- Still Thinking of You
- On the Other Ocean
- Lost for Words, Part 3
- Late Night Tales (Continuous mix)
LateNightTales: MGMT
Released 2011- Can't See Through It
- Love You Girl
- Cheree
- Stop & Smell the Roses
- Ocean
- Red Indians
- Laughing Boy
- For Belgian Friends
- Mound of Clay
- Song for Wilde
- All We Ever Wanted Was Everything
- Troubled Mind
- Drug Song
- Hearts Are Like Flowers
- Pink Frost
- Sparks
- Melancholy Man
- Lord Can You Hear Me?
- Morning Splendor
- Lost for Words, Part 2
LateNightTales: Trentemøller
Released 2011- Waves Become Wings
- La Lliarona
- Science Killer
- The Mole (Trentemøller remix)
- (That's How You Sing) Amazing Grace
- Mary of Silence
- Venus in Furs
- Safe Word
- Remember (Walking in the Sand)
- 7 heures du matin
- Poor Boy, Minor Key
- Noise on the Line
- Unavailable
- Lights Out
- Ghost in the Trees (live alternate)
- Blue Hotel
- The Proposition #1
- Full Moon
- Rehearsal
- Lost for Words, Part 1
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by Jose James
Bird Of Space
by: Jose James(Verse)
Shadows on my face,
Shadows on the wall,
Lord, I need a taste
Or I'll risk it all.
You belong to me
We're belonging on
Oh, I go crazy
When I can't find my love.
You and me, only child,
When I'm happy it make me smile,
Oh but when I feel the dream,
You know what it means to that.
(Chorus)
Just a bird of space
Give the worst and fly,
See the silence of the moment,
All alone inside.
You belong to me,
We belonging on
Oh, I go crazy when I can't find my love.
(Verse)
Windows on the plane,
Windows of desire,
Waited just a moment longer,
Waited all my life.
You, I can't believe
You are near to lie,
Oh, when I'm alone I struggle, baby
With the burning fire.
You and me, we can't look back
We got problems and that's a fact
How do we keep loving you?
When the love is gonna leave forever longing for your face.
(Chorus)
Just a bird of space
Give the worst and fly,
See the silence of the moment,
All alone inside.
You belong to me,
We belonging on
Oh, I go crazy when I can't find my love.
(Verse)
Windows on the train,
Windows of desire,
Window on a precious moment,
Burning deeper within my mind.
Did you plan to see?
Did you run in height?
Did you know when I was lonely,
Will you touch me all my life?
Did you dream of loving me?
And did you think that our love would be?
I woke up alone baby,
I woke up alone.
(Chorus)
Just a bird of space
Give the worst and fly,
See the silence of the moment,
All alone inside.
You belong to me,
We belonging on