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: 

https://thepassage.co.uk

 

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:

https://www.mdmarchive.co.uk/search/The%20Passage