Mervyn King on Desert Island Discs

[Surrey Villain]

Villa fan Mervyn King - outgoing Governor of The Bank Of England - has just been on Desert Island Disks and one of his choices was 'Rotterdam '82' sung by Doug O'Brien. Even Kirsty Young liked it! He said it it was relatively unknown but he plays it wherever he goes and it is very popular.  He is right. I have searched but can't find it. Can anybody?

[Ron Manager]

Villa fan from Erdington. Must have been financed personally. Probably only a few pressings made because of the costs.

[Surrey Villain]

Oh well, have to make do with a few lines on Desert Island Disks.

[eastie]

Villa fan Mervyn King - outgoing Governor of The Bank Of England - has just been on Desert Island Disks and one of his choices was 'Rotterdam '82' sung by Doug O'Brien. Even Kirsty Young liked it! He said it it was relatively unknown but he plays it wherever he goes and it is very popular.  He is right. I have searched but can't find it. Can anybody?

I remember asking George Gavin about this when he worked for brmb and was delighted a couple of days later when he sent me the cassette with his regards , a catchy song, better than Ricky disoni with his hey aston villa.

[Surrey Villain]

Villa fan Mervyn King - outgoing Governor of The Bank Of England - has just been on Desert Island Disks and one of his choices was 'Rotterdam '82' sung by Doug O'Brien. Even Kirsty Young liked it! He said it it was relatively unknown but he plays it wherever he goes and it is very popular.  He is right. I have searched but can't find it. Can anybody?

I remember asking George Gavin about this when he worked for brmb and was delighted a couple of days later when he sent me the cassette with his regards , a catchy song, better than Ricky disoni with his hey aston villa.

Catchy indeed. Sir Mervyn and Kirsty Young both said the same.

[Pat McMahon]

Did Mervyn go to Rotterdam?

[purpletrousers]

Thanks for the prompt, To listen again on http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b006qnmr or  iplayer etc the snippet/relevant chat is 26.57-29.00.
So if the guy sticks it on iTunes, how many of us have to buy it for it to chart?! Good charity fundraiser?!

[myf]

Missus was listening and i heard mention of rotterdam 1982 and the song started. had to stick around to work out what it was about. never heard that song before

[manic-road]

Catchy song, sounded a bit like Billy Brag at the start.

[Ron Manager]

Apparently when Tommy Hitz played for us he used to visit Mervyn King at the Bank of England and discuss world finance.

[dave.woodhall]

From the same artist:

www.youtube.com/watch?v=HfSgMq-dOVw

www.youtube.com/watch?v=BMogWN7BLjU

www.youtube.com/watch?v=ITLVr0NJwE0

[eastie]

Just listened to the link purple posted , how sad they only played half the song - dirty bbc scoundrels!

[pauliewalnuts]

From the same artist:

www.youtube.com/watch?v=HfSgMq-dOVw

www.youtube.com/watch?v=BMogWN7BLjU

www.youtube.com/watch?v=ITLVr0NJwE0

Please, someone, switch off the internet.

[TopDeck113]

Just listened to the link purple posted , how sad they only played half the song - dirty bbc scoundrels!

You very rarely get the whole track played on Desert Island Discs.

[Surrey Villain]

Just listened to the link purple posted , how sad they only played half the song - dirty bbc scoundrels!

You very rarely get the whole track played on Desert Island Discs.

They played more of it on Desert Island Discs.  It was shortened on iPlayer for copyright reasons or something. Has no-one got access to the  complete track?