2024-07-14
28 分钟Ever wondered what David Bowie liked to eat for dinner, or how the members of Queen wrote and rehearsed their famous “Galileos”? Tiffany Murray’s new memoir invites us into the lives of 1970s rock nobility. Set at two recording studios, including the legendary Rockfield Studios where she was raised, her mother Joan was a chef for the likes of Black Sabbath and Motörhead. Georgina Godwin speaks to the author about Freddie Mercury’s love for the family’s great dane, her first encounter with drugs and vengeful neighbouring farmers in this enchanting account of the rural recording studio. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
Hello, this is Meet the Writers.
I'm Georgina Godwin.
My guest today is the author of three novels.
Her debut is Happy, a coming of age tale set on a rural farm on the Welsh English border.
It was shortlisted for the Bollinger Everyman Woodhouse Prize along with her second novel, Diamond Star Halo, which was also a Guardian book of the year.
She's the founder of Hay Festival's development program for Welsh writers.
She's been an international Hay Festival fiction fellow and has on creative writing programs across the country.
She's a recipient of the Roger Deakin Award for nature writing from the Society of Authors.
And her new fabulous memoir is My Family and Other Rock Stars.
It takes us right into the heart of the rural Y Valley and into the heart of rockstar royalty.
Tiffany Murray.
Welcome to Meet the Writers.
Thank you so much.
Georgina, it's such a delight to have you here.
I can't tell you.
We've known each other for.
For years.
We see each other at various festivals and then I read your book and finally I think I kind of got you.
I understood where this slightly odd woman I'll take that was coming from because this just explains everything.
It's such a wonderful book because not only does it tell us your story, it tells us your mother's story, but it also tells us about icons like Freddie Mercury or David Bowie or.