“He gave all of himself in his music and in his art. He was a supernova in a firmament of shining stars.”
in the fan vote. But despite four decades of being a steward for the duo’s history, Ridgeley now gets to experience something new for a change: watching the aughts-defining moment when Ben Stiller, as Derek Zoolander, drinks orange-mocha frappuccinos with his model frenemies as “Wake Me Up Before You Go-Go” plays over their gasoline car fight.
Over the course of recording the first album, of course, the record company assumed we’d need a producer. We probably didn’t, really. But certainly by the time we came to record “Wake Me Up Before You Go-Go,” which was the first record produced solely by Yog. The proof is in the pudding. We were left alone by the record company. We weren’t A&R’d. I’m not sure we would’ve taken very kindly to have been A&R’d, to be honest with you. The record company was hands-off and remained that way.
I think the respect that he was afforded was, in some quarters, begrudgingly or grudgingly given. But we never made records to gain the respect of music reviewers or magazines. We made records for people to listen to. That was the primary purpose. Yog always felt that way, although I think it got under his skin a wee bit, certainly at first, the lack of acknowledgement that came his way in the early days.Yog referenced our friendship in a couple of his songs.
We both reflected on and viewed what was a golden chapter in our lives as just that. We were aware that we achieved something extraordinary for a mutually held ambition. As teenagers, we grasped it, we realized it, and we were both aware of what we had done. We viewed it, and I still do, with great fondness — that chapter in our late adolescence when we went from boys to young men.As we say in Blighty, just take your pick. There were several standout moments for me. Thetour was outstanding.
, which he did with “Somebody to Love.” That’s another song where you could count on one hand or three fingers, perhaps, the sum total of male artists who would’ve been able to adequately perform it at that point in time. I listened to it in the car. I was traveling with some friends. It was an extraordinary moment. His voice, for me, was his singular greatest talent, and the instrument by which he expressed every sinew and fiber of the songs that he wrote and songs other people wrote.
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