My Life in Music
Alex Paterson
The Orb mainstay details his favourite aural adventures: “You’ll see the true light of this music in the 22nd or 23rd centuries…”
INTERVIEW: TOM PINNOCK.
PHOTO: JOHN HOLLINGSWORTH
T .REX
ELECTRIC WARRIOR
FLY/REPRISE, 1971
This is a great record, and it was also the first record I ever bought, when I was about 12 years old. There’s one track which really stands out for me: “Girl”. It’s just an acoustic masterpiece. There’s also “Get It On”, and all kinds of other things on this album that are really worth exploring. I think the first four or five girls that I went out with were Marc Bolan fanatics!
Beyond a shadow of a doubt this is one of the best albums in the Top 100 albums ever made. It was tragic how his career was cut short.
KRAFTWERK
THE MAN-MACHINE KLING KLANG/EMI
ELECTROLA, 1978