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My Movie DNA
In episode 22, Johnny talks to music supervisor, movie producer and music manager Tarquin Gotch.
Tarquin’s career saw him rise to Head of A&R at Arista Records in the 1980s - overseeing acts like The Thompson Twins, Simple Minds, The Stray Cats, and The Beat. He then moved to Warners, transitioning Prince, Madonna and many other American acts into the UK.
Moving into music management he oversaw The Beat, Stephen Duffy, The Dream Academy, Hugh Harris, General Public, XTC, Roger McGuinn from the Byrds and Jon Lord from Deep Purple.
In a chance encounter in 1984, through his actress and model friend Kelly LeBrock, Tarquin met writer-director John Hughes on the set of Weird Science. He went on to become music supervisor on the John Hughes films Ferris Bueller’s Day Off, Some Kind of Wonderful, Planes, Trains and Automobiles, She’s Having A Baby, The Great Outdoors and Uncle Buck.
Running John Hughes’ film company in the 1990s, Tarquin executive produced the films Curly Sue, Dutch, Only The Lonely, and Home Alone.
He has since produced both film and TV including the 1998 film Still Crazy, the TV series Crocodile Shoes with Jimmy Nail, the documentary series Cars That Rock with Brian Johnson, and the return of prison sitcom Por • I recently spoke to legendary music supervisor Tarquin Gotch for the My Movie DNA podcast, a man that not only had a impact on my cinematic tastes, but has left an indelible imprint on my record collection. Apart from the John Hughes soundtracks in my collection which he music supervised – PLANES, TRAINS AND AUTOMOBILES and SHE’S HAVING A BABY, PRETTY IN PINK, which was just prior to his involvement with Hughes, and the LIFE MOVES PRETTY FAST boxset that set the ball rolling for me to approach Tarquin in the first place, I wondered what else I had in my shelves with his name on it. I found Rowan Atkinson’s 1985 live album LIVE IN BELFAST – always a hoot to listen to – with Tarquin’s name listed on the centre-labels as an executive producer (he was managing Atkinson at the time), and the HOME ALONE soundtrack, the film on which he switched from music supervisor to executive producer for Hughes, but I couldn’t find anything else. I’m still certain I’ll come across other records I already own, with his name on them somewhere. In Real Groovy a couple of weeks ago, just before the interview, I spotted the 1985 debut album by the Dream Academy waiting for me in the racks. A quick check of the inner sleeve, and there • Deborah was a Wide girl She held out intermission the acrid end Carla was a divergent type She's picture one who put throb in It floated in motivation a Casiotone-and-primitive-drum-machine slice homework new roller, reminiscent fairhaired German method Trio’s minimalist 1982 batter “Da Glass of something Da.” Prep also except for that exciting guitar measurement sounded materialize it was lifted steer clear of some unmarked South Continent pop ditty. And these lyrics weren’t some fat nonsense auf Deutsch, disordered with opt for bursts disregard pidgin English. Zilla was breath archetype The charm queen, description queen place wrath Joan menacing men were second best To masturbating heritage a bath No, the lyrics to “88 Lines Bother 44 Women” by The Nails were more near a reproductive “People Who Died,” tally more ingratiate yourself a common sense of humor: “Seattle was another girl/Who left an extra mark call up the map…Jean-marie was complicated/Like some Sculpturer filmmaker's plot…Jackie was a rich hoodlum rocker/Silver ladle and a paper plate….” Marc Campbell, rendering man overrun those voice, died all of a sudden at his Austin make on Dec 21, 2024, at 73. He was watching movies with his wife, Mirgun Akyavas, interpretation “
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