Albums that Changed My Life, with Tom Gatti, David Mitchell and Preti Taneja
Our favourite albums are our most faithful companions. We listen to them over and over, we know them far better than any novel or film. These records don\u2019t just soundtrack our lives \u2013 they work their way deep inside us, shaping our outlook and identity, forging our friendships and charting our love affairs. They become part of our story.\n\n\nIn this special podcast for Intelligence Squared, journalist and music obsessive Tom Gatti \u2013 editor of Long Players, a new anthology of writing on albums \u2013 was in conversation with two of his contributors, acclaimed novelist David Mitchell (Cloud Atlas, The Thousand Autumns of Jacob de Zoet) and writer and activist Preti Taneja, author of the prize-winning novel We That Are Young. They discussed the power of certain records to act on us like Proustian madeleines, transporting us back to a particular time and place \u2013 Gatti, by his own admission, has listened to Radiohead\u2019s The Bends more times than is strictly necessary; Mitchell\u2019s great formative influence is Joni Mitchell\u2019s Blue; Taneja grew up with Midnight Marauders by A Tribe Called Quest. And they explored how music influences their writing \u2013 directly in the case of Mitchell\u2019s latest novel, Utopia Avenue, the epic tale of a psychedelic rock band\u2019s rise to stardom in the late sixties.\n\n\nTo find out more about Long Players click here:\xa0https://www.primrosehillbooks.com/product/long-players-writers-on-the-albums-that-shaped-them-tom-gatti/\n\n\nTo see the Spotify playlist that accompanies the book please go here: https://open.spotify.com/playlist/5bzkr33b38k4egE6laYQuC Support this show http://supporter.acast.com/intelligencesquared.\n \n\xa0See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.\nLearn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices