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| − | I met her in 1978, which was after she'd left the BBC. She'd a thing up in Cumbria. It all got a bit much for her and she left London, went off to Cumbria but wasn't doing any music at all, did various jobs and came back on a visit to London and I met her then through a friend of ours and then eventually she ended up moving in to Northampton [...] and eventually I moved in with her in 1980. Though her I met a lot of the people that she had worked with in the past and the used to come to her to do a bit of music and also for advice, to listen to things. She was a bit of a guru and people ued to come to her and really respected her ability in music.<ref>[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ci_QZfoxaGA ''Delia Derbyshire Exhibition Opening'' on youtube.com | + | I met her in 1978, which was after she'd left the BBC. She'd a thing up in Cumbria. It all got a bit much for her and she left London, went off to Cumbria but wasn't doing any music at all, did various jobs and came back on a visit to London and I met her then through a friend of ours and then eventually she ended up moving in to Northampton [...] and eventually I moved in with her in 1980. Though her I met a lot of the people that she had worked with in the past and the used to come to her to do a bit of music and also for advice, to listen to things. She was a bit of a guru and people ued to come to her and really respected her ability in music. |
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| + | I worked for the BBC myself between 1968 and '70. I never met Delia, I never went to the Workshop. We were there, briefly for about six months at the same time.<ref>[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ci_QZfoxaGA ''Delia Derbyshire Exhibition Opening'' on youtube.com from 4:14</ref> | ||
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Revision as of 16:01, 27 February 2017
Clive Blackburn was Delia's partner for the last 21 years of her life and is the sole beneficiary of her estate.
The Mail on Sunday article is based on an 2005 interview with him and in 2008 he was interviewed by Breege Brennan for her Master's thesis and by Kara Blake for The Delian Mode film.
Quotes
She worked very hard to achieve the effect that she wanted," explains former partner Clive Blackburn, "she was a perfectionist and it was very hard to get her to stop work on a piece when she thought that it could still be improved, even though it sounded absolutely fine to other people.[1]
Because she was one of the experts at that time [the mid-sixties] on the synthesizers and all the groups were adopting them but didn't know anything about them, they used to come to her.[2]
I met her in 1978, which was after she'd left the BBC. She'd a thing up in Cumbria. It all got a bit much for her and she left London, went off to Cumbria but wasn't doing any music at all, did various jobs and came back on a visit to London and I met her then through a friend of ours and then eventually she ended up moving in to Northampton [...] and eventually I moved in with her in 1980. Though her I met a lot of the people that she had worked with in the past and the used to come to her to do a bit of music and also for advice, to listen to things. She was a bit of a guru and people ued to come to her and really respected her ability in music.
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I worked for the BBC myself between 1968 and '70. I never met Delia, I never went to the Workshop. We were there, briefly for about six months at the same time.[3]
References
- ↑ Quoted in the Fibre-Optic Flowers article
- ↑ [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ci_QZfoxaGA Delia Derbyshire Exhibition Opening on youtube.com at 3:37
- ↑ [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ci_QZfoxaGA Delia Derbyshire Exhibition Opening on youtube.com from 4:14
External links
- Clive provides a web site About Delia with biographical information, some photos and Delia's favourite poem
