Clive Blackburn

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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]

References

  1. Quoted in the Fibre-Optic Flowers article
  2. [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ci_QZfoxaGA Delia Derbyshire Exhibition Opening on youtube.com at 3:37

External links

  • Clive provides a web site About Delia with biographical information, some photos and Delia's favourite poem