STACK #225 July 2023

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NEWS MUSIC

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Which recent album do you currently have on repeat? Darius Rucker's When Was the Last Time (2017). What‘s your all-time favourite album and why? Depeche Mode 101. It got me into going to live music, and I have every version released – eight so far.

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What‘s an early, cherished music memory? Seeing Roxette live at St George Park Cricket Ground, South Africa, on their 1992 world tour. My next gig was Bush, with Placebo supporting, in London (UK).

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Depeche Mode 101, the live album and doco about the final leg of the band's Music for the Masses Tour, and its concluding show at the Rose Bowl in Pasadena, California (1989).

Do you have a vinyl collection? If so, how did it begin, and expand? Yes, 1500 – I won my turntable at a conference, and got addicted. I also collect CDs and cassettes. What do you enjoy most about working in music at JB? Finding new music, as I dont stream at all.

Roxette (Per Gessle and the late Marie Fredrikssen) in 1992. Source: @TheRealRoxette (Twitter)

Way back in July 1983, we were all mesmerised by the pumpin' post-disco chug of Donna Summer's number one hit She Works Hard for the Money. The track was inspired by a Grammys afterparty Summer attended at West Hollywood hangout Chasen's, hosted by Julio Iglesias. There, the Boston-born singer songwriter heard the sound of a television coming from the restroom, and she and her manager Susan Monroe decided to investigate. "We peeked around the corner, and there was a little lady sitting there with her head tilted to the side and she was just gone – she was asleep," Summer has said of her encounter with the restroom attendant named Onetta Johnson. "And the TV was just blasting loud. And I looked at her and my heart just filled up with compassion for this lady, and I thought to myself, 'God, she works hard for the money, cooped up in this stinky little room all night.' Then I thought about it, and I said, "She works hard for the money... She works hard for the money... Susan! She works hard for the money! This is it! This is it! I know this is it!" The song ended up as the lead single from Summer's album of the same name, and its music video became the first ever clip by a female African-American artist to be slotted into 'high rotation' (frequently aired) on MTV. n t h A G O

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Above: Donna Summer on the back cover of her 1983 record, She Works Hard for the Money .

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