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Michael Eavis

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2008-11-30
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  1. “The second piece of music will be peehand, a twelfth street rag, which is a song that really swept me right into pop music in a very tender age of eight nine or something. And when I heard that I knew for sure that there was something out there that was going to be totally different from all the chapel stuff, Ansel singing around the piano with the kind of stuff we used to sing around the piano, you know, we sang all the right things at that time. And suddenly Pee Wee Hunt and 12th Street Rack swept me up on my feet, actually, and I was totally gone on a mission at that point.”

    2008-11-30 · Desert Island Discs · Michael Eavis · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source

  2. “She was quite soft and gentle, happy soul singing hymns one of his milking and all that kind of thing, and a rather jocular happy soul, you know, super boat, lovely ch”

    2008-11-30 · Desert Island Discs · Michael Eavis · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source

  3. “As he was certainly a disciplinarian, yes, we couldn't muck around with her, you know, she wouldn't have any messing at all.”

    2008-11-30 · Desert Island Discs · Michael Eavis · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source

  4. “and she had to teach as well as her father did a lot of preaching and a lot of singing and a lot of council stuff. And she was a supply head mistress. So she had a pretty full-time job and she would take me to school with her on the back of a bike one time. So I was strapped into that cradle on the back of a bike and she'd pedal off in the morning and pouring rain and teaching.”

    2008-11-30 · Desert Island Discs · Michael Eavis · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source

  5. “She was great, actually, she was very clever, and she was a Londoner that came to stay in the country, and at my father spotted her very wisely married her.”

    2008-11-30 · Desert Island Discs · Michael Eavis · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source

  6. “Growing up and we're on the dairy farm and we had to get sort of stuck in we had to grind mangles and all that kind of thing and do the hand milking taking turns especially weekends there's no staff around you know we went to chapel about two or three times a week as well so the good old singing sessions at the chapel we'd have methodist chapel so we sang a lot of hymns around the piano as well and my father was a very good singer mother used to play the piano and so we did a lot of church a lot of chapel stuff actually”

    2008-11-30 · Desert Island Discs · Michael Eavis · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source

  7. “The first track What is Mark Bowland and the T Rex and the Children of the Revolution seeing he was the first band to appear at the festival anyway, and he did an incredible set on that evening, I must say September the 19th, 1970.”

    2008-11-30 · Desert Island Discs · Michael Eavis · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source

  8. “But what I did actually, but for some strange reason I had a passion to carry on with it. I don't quite know why. Jean was very supportive as well, and she did cope with it as well, which is quite handy, really. So we just ploughed on with it and ploughed on with it.”

    2008-11-30 · Desert Island Discs · Michael Eavis · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source

  9. “Well, they did actually did the on-site security. They phoned me and I said, come down for an interview, you see. And I thought, well, they sent me quite a nice sort of Somerset. He's handing people. And they actually came from Cancham, so they would have a Somerset accent. But when they turned up, you know, I dare not turn them down, but they're all bikers and they look really unpleasant, you know, untidy and kind of aggressive hell's angels.”

    2008-11-30 · Desert Island Discs · Michael Eavis · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source

  10. “five hundred quid and I couldn't afford it so I paid the deposit at fifty pounds I had to pay the rest off from my milk checks.”

    2008-11-30 · Desert Island Discs · Michael Eavis · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source

  11. “Where he was great actually was an amazing performance. When he turned up though he turned up at the gate in a Buick or a Cadillac with a huge American cow, it was all covered in some kind of velvet or something. I put my hand on it and just stroked. I said super car, a nice car you've got in security and I took the money on the gate. I did everything in those days, you know. And so he screwed me. He said, take your hands off my car, man. Was I being too friendly or something? I asked, I don't know.”

    2008-11-30 · Desert Island Discs · Michael Eavis · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source