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Roger was the BBC Engineer that recorded The Smiths' first Peel Session (broadcast on May 31, 1983).<br> | Roger was the BBC Engineer that recorded The Smiths' first Peel Session (broadcast on May 31, 1983).<br> | ||
In The Guardian's "‘An astounding rush of real-time creativity’: 40 years of the Smiths’ Peel Sessions", they assert: | In [https://www.theguardian.com/music/2023/may/31/the-glory-of-it-was-real-40-years-of-the-smiths-peel-sessions The Guardian's] "‘An astounding rush of real-time creativity’: 40 years of the Smiths’ Peel Sessions" (May 31, 2023), they assert: | ||
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And there were the songs that got away – the sternly empathic This Night Has Opened My Eyes, one of Morrissey’s Shelagh Delaney homages, which was never recorded for Rough Trade. “In a river the colour of lead / Immerse the baby’s head,” he sang, prompting producer Roger Pusey to stop the session to check he wasn’t about to record a song celebrating the drowning of infants. | And there were the songs that got away – the sternly empathic This Night Has Opened My Eyes, one of Morrissey’s Shelagh Delaney homages, which was never recorded for Rough Trade. “In a river the colour of lead / Immerse the baby’s head,” he sang, prompting producer Roger Pusey to stop the session to check he wasn’t about to record a song celebrating the drowning of infants. | ||
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Roger was the BBC Engineer that recorded The Smiths' first Peel Session (broadcast on May 31, 1983).
In The Guardian's "‘An astounding rush of real-time creativity’: 40 years of the Smiths’ Peel Sessions" (May 31, 2023), they assert:
And there were the songs that got away – the sternly empathic This Night Has Opened My Eyes, one of Morrissey’s Shelagh Delaney homages, which was never recorded for Rough Trade. “In a river the colour of lead / Immerse the baby’s head,” he sang, prompting producer Roger Pusey to stop the session to check he wasn’t about to record a song celebrating the drowning of infants.
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Roger Pusey is a former BBC Radio 1 producer who worked on the Peel Sessions.
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Roger Pusey is a former BBC Radio 1 producer who worked on the Peel Sessions. He was previously producer of the station's Tony Blackburn morning show. He produced versions of a number of tracks for The Smiths including "This Charming Man", "What Difference Does It Make", and "This Night Has Opened My Eyes" on the compilation albums: Hatful of Hollow and Louder Than Bombs. In addition, Pusey produced tracks for David Bowie and New Model Army. In 2010 he co-produced the debut EP Atlas by singer-songwriter Joshua Fisher.