He’s the reason virtually everyone over 45 in the UK can tell you the average age of the combat soldier in Vietnam. And he’s (sort of) responsible for the Spice Girls. 19 changed Paul Hardcastle’s life. He tells Classic Pop of his years as a major label artist, how this jazz-funk producer bagged a Sir Laurence Olivier cameo, ended up in Washington researching the Cold War and how he dashed off a new TOTP theme in three days.
Do you ever wonder how life might have turned out had you not come across that Vietnam Requiem documentary?