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Baker's Dozen

Magic Moments: Michael Head’s Baker’s Dozen
Patrick Clarke , April 22nd, 2024 10:51

In a year that sees him finish his 'magical memoir', a new album with The Red Elastic Band and a career-spanning homecoming show in Liverpool, former Shack, Strands and Pale Fountains frontman Michael Head takes Patrick Clarke through the 13 records that shaped him

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John Coltrane – A Love Supreme

Again I didn’t get into this one until late, but because I’m inqusitive I was always asking the likes of Andy Diagram and then later Martin Smith out of the Red Elastic Band who was also playing with Shack, about jazz. We had a threesome, Martin on trumpet, Simon [James] on flute and Friz [Andy Frizell] on saxophone, who brought a whole different menu when we were setting up and talking about music. It was one of them who put me on to A Love Supreme. You put it on and that’s that. You realise what all the fuss is about. I always heard ‘My Favourite Things’, his version of that. But that album, A Love Supreme, that’s the one I still put on every now and again.