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Tim ‘Love’ Lee – Just Call Me Lone Lee: The Continuing Confessions Of Tim ‘Love’ Lee, The Man Who’s Been Everywhere But In Love
I get into these obsessive loops with music, man. I was doing a lot of business travel while working for Apple and Adobe. I’d become like the George Clooney character out of that crappy movie who is always on planes. There was a great Leonard Cohen phrase: “The sinister anonymity.” And I was mired in the sinister anonymity of public spaces and places for people who are not there, like airports. So I listened to it for six months straight and I couldn’t stop. It got so bad that finally reached out to the guy. I wrote him a letter and said, ‘Man, I’m in a band and sometimes I get letters like this from people and I appreciate them so maybe you’ll appreciate this. But this record means the world to me.’ And he wrote me back and this odd thing happened. One of my favourite composers is this guy John Dankworth who you might know as Mr Cleo Laine. He did the music to one of my favourite movies of all time, Joseph Losey’s The Servant with Dirk Bogarde and James Fox… and it turns out they were family fucking friends. It’s such a strange set of events that Tim Lee grew up playing in the house of Cleo Laine and John Dankworth. And both Dankworth and Lee have their fingers on this deep, obsessive cerebral cortex type stuff, what made it hard for me to put the record down for a year.
