Links
Literary Agent: Johnson & Alcock:
http://www.johnsonandalcock.co.uk/witts-richard
Books:
https://www.penguin.co.uk/books/107/1078028/nico–life-and-lies-of-an-icon/9780753548486.html
https://www.equinoxpub.com/home/velvet-underground/
https://www.amazon.com/Artist-Alternative-History-Arts-Council/dp/0316878200
https://www.roughtrade.com/gb/dick-witts/passage-post-punk-poets
Wikipedia:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richard_Witts
Academic:
https://research.edgehill.ac.uk/en/persons/richard-witts
https://edgehill.academia.edu/RichardWitts
Manchester District Music Archive (MDMA):
https://www.mdmarchive.co.uk/deep-search/Richard+Witts
https://www.mdmarchive.co.uk/search/Dick%20Witts
Television:
BBC2:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7yEn4VbEJeM
https://alchetron.com/Oxford-Road-Show
https://www.imdb.com/name/nm1593580/?ref_=tt_cl_t4
Granada TV:
https://www.mdmarchive.co.uk/artefact/7924/FIREPLACE_GRANADA_TV_STUDIOS_VIDEO_1979
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PwEDvXvp7jo
Radio:
BBC Radio 3: The Essay: The Riot of Spring [Stravinsky: The Rite of Spring; premiere 1913]
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4roRjMEny3s
BBC Radio 3: Who Cares If You Listen? Sir Harrison Birtwistle, AC Grayling, Jennifer Doctor and Richard Witts discuss the history of Radio3:
https://www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/b07wr2gk
BBC Radio 3: The Essay: The Music Appreciation Movement (4 episodes):
https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b014245l
British Library, collection of radio recordings by Richard Witts:
http://cadensa.bl.uk/uhtbin/cgisirsi/?ps=Hvk4aKcUox/WORKS-FILE/90200011/123
British Library, collection of recordings by Dick Witts:
http://cadensa.bl.uk/uhtbin/cgisirsi/?ps=89Py6hKDhf/WORKS-FILE/90200011/123
Live Talks:
Keynote paper, ‘Messing Up The Paintwork – the aesthetics and politics of Mark E Smith and The Fall.’ Salford University, 2008.
Part One:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N6yCShYXH4s&t=12s
Part Two:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kzEao_Cf57Y&t=12s
Icebreaker talk on Kraftwerk, Liverpool Philharmonic Hall:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5KTwCZ-wNu8&t=385s
Describing to Evgeniy Denisov the harmonies of For All & None (1981):
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mBEb-WoUa20
Keynote paper on Eurovision and ‘European music’, University of Central Lancashire:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xCLDZpZBf2o&t=711s
Royal Musical Association Annual Conference 2017: session on Eurovision with Jon Ola Sand:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lcGcXkGrxsc
The Passage:
Main site:
Wikipedia:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Passage_(band)
LTM Records:
https://www.ltmrecordings.com/the_passage.html
BBC Peel Session: Dark Times:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=waRZYjL3CiA
BBC Peel Session: Devils and Angels:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hzuNICGpI8
Cherry Red Records:
https://www.cherryred.co.uk/the-cherry-red-story/
Peel Fandom:
https://peel.fandom.com/wiki/Passage
MDMA: