The Tube
Director:
Gavin Taylor
Tyne Tees television
30 Mar 1984
John is filmed and interviewed during the recording of Sapphire, at Compass Point studios, Nassau, Bahamas
Tracks:
UK
Glasgow, Radio Clyde
Radio Clyde
9 Nov 1983
90 minutes.
Concert at short-lived club named Henry Afrikas simultaneously broadcast on FM radio.
Tracks:
John Martyn [Music UK]
01 Jun 1983
Music UK #18
Long hailed as one of our finest acoustic guitarists, John Martyn has changed over to all-electric instruments. We set out to find why. Photos by Geoff Dann. Words by Max Kay.
Pop Quiz (1983)
Director:
Phil Chilvers
BBC
14 May 1983
Season 3, episode 5
John appeared in Pop Quiz twice as a panel member in a BBC show called Pop Quiz, hosted by Mike Read. The quiz was about pop and rock & roll music since 1955.
Credits:
Host: Mike Read
Director: Phil Chilvers
Guests: Nick Lowe, Stephen Luscombe, John Martyn, Hank B. Marvin, Suzi Quatro, Roger Taylor
Aylesbury Flyer 1983
23 Apr 1983
Friars
More Sweat From The Hot Guitar
By the time Friars started up in June 1969 Martyn was already a force to be reckoned with and was probably too big to play our little Friars venue in Walton Street. In the end it took over 12 years to finally get John Martyn to Friars but the wait proved more than worth while as anyone who came to his superb Friars debut in October 1981 will testify.
Bradford Flyer 1983
19 Apr 1983
Bradford University
In Concert at Bradford
Uni in the Communal Building
John Martyn + Guests
The Great Musicians: John Martyn
01 Mar 1983
The History of Rock #29 (vol 3)
Rolling Stone magazine described John Martyn's music as 'jazz-tinged pop-folk', neatly encapsulating the problems that Martyn poses for ardent music categorisers and critics who always seem to flounder when faced with such an original musician. There has been a jazz element in John Martyn's music ever since his second album, The Tumbler (1968); the folk element is even older and more deeply entrenched; and such a loose, all-embracing term as pop could just about be applied to anything he has done since the late Sixties.
SOLID HEIR
13 Nov 1982
Sounds
JOHN MARTYN's well-kept secrets unlocked by HUGH FIELDER
"SO SOUNDS think I'm an old hippy do they?" muses John Martyn as we stand in the hotel lobby waiting for the limo (the manager's estate car actually) to whisk us nearly 100 yards to the gig at Durham University 1. Well, it's raining and he'll get his track suit wet otherwise. "Nooo, that was all too wishy washy. I always wanted to be a beatnik. That seemed to have much more sparkle about it."
Peril in a Hero's Ceiling
13 Nov 1982
Daily Record
War hero Thomas McGeachy lived with danger long after he hung up his rifle. But the 64-year-old ex-commando was blissfully unaware of the potentially-explosive situation for 40 years.
London, Dominion, 23 Oct 1982
25 Oct 1982
The Guardian
When he first emerged on to the folk club scene back in the late Sixties, John Martyn seemed destined to be a minority cult hero, winning favourable reviews for his album but only a small and dedicated audience for his boldly emotional songs.
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Well Kept Secret
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