more Mark Hollis

So I've been binge-listening to Talk Talk and Mark Hollis's solo album since the sad news of his passing. My only impressions of him as a person had come from vague memories of interviews in the music press (NME, Melody Maker) in the wake of Spirit of Eden, and the way he'd been portrayed as a bit of curmudgeonly git. I dug around and found some recordings of him talking about his music and it became immediately apparent that this was in fact a lovely, gentle, humble, thoughtful and deeply private person who had ended up having to navigate the 1980s music and media business, and really didn't want to . Check this out, if you love his music, you'll love it more after hearing him talk about it: