Martin Rushent

"They came up and we did Sound Of The Crowd. They were under the impression that I was going to work on what they’d done so far and improve that and carry on. I said, ‘No, I’m not doing that, we’re sta…"

"I’d got all this new technology and we spent a year making the album, programming all these primitive computers. sounded so much like real drums it was difficult to tell it apart. The tempo was absolu…"

"He chased us all round the studio and we had to lock ourselves into another studio to prevent him getting us. He was a big guy. He came in the following morning and he was alright. I think his managem…"

"It filled me with dread – she had a reputation for being difficult. She had been headlining on the Royal Command performance the night before we were due to start. She arrived and swept through recept…"

"In , making electronic music was a big job, particularly the way that I was doing it. To get the sounds I wanted, I might have 24 synthesizers playing one synth line, all programmed, all analogue and …"

"We were just making a record and suddenly it just exploded all over the world and has since become a legendary record. It’s just mad! If somebody had told me then ‘Do you realise that you are making h…"

"He was an extraordinary bloke. First of all he was very funny. He was straight but very camp. came in and Visconte said, ‘Right, what are we doing?’. He said: ‘Well I haven’t got any material, I’ve ju…"

"I programmed all the drums and synths, while he played all the guitars. The initial plan was just to demo his songs because he was out of his UA deal, so we pumped it to people like Island and Virgin …"