![]() When I talk to people about you, they said there's “just something about Chris Blackwell.” It's like a mystery or something, but you tapped into something in them that allowed them to flourish. Looking at the artists you’ve worked with–Bob Marley, Cat Stevens, Grace Jones, Roxy Music, Steve Winwood, Amy Winehouse, and so many others. ![]() People kind drifting in and out of your life and this ability to make quick friendships, but deep ones, it's something that you brought into your dealings in the music business, which was just really developing when you came into it. I felt for Bob to be able to reach a wider audience that he needed to move away a little bit from that and focus more and more on his lyrics.Īnd I think that relaxed atmosphere that you had in Jamaica from a young age. I didn't want him to change what he was doing, not his lyrics and everything else like that. I absolutely felt for Bob Marley to really make it worldwide as it were, he needed to change something a little bit. And I think that's one of the things which was lucky that the fact that I heard all this classical music at deafening volume in the early days, so I sort of learned to listen and how to make your own little judgment that you end up liking most? I like music from all different kinds of levels. ![]() And most of their music was vocal, so it wasn't a certain kind of music that I like all the time. The instinct of U2 was seeing their determination, the fact that the music itself initially wasn't close to what most of my music was because most of my music was bass and drum. I'm unemployable, but I've been blessed with having instincts. ![]() I think you need to be aware and see people be open to what can happen and get a feel, get an instinct.
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