The Who

Oof.

And that was accompanied by a second headline, which read, "Narnia: The Magician's Nephew is Greta Gerwig's Rock Opera Fantasy Inspired by Bowie and The Who."

Okay.

That headline accompanied by a bunch of, like, Technicolor really intense photographs that sort of didn't match up with, I think, what people thought they would see from a Narnia-

That to me just felt like, "I need more eyeballs-

Yes

... on this." This is the thing, all these things are being done for money, which I understand is what the whole industry is built on.

Yeah.

Just the latest chapter in a long story, he started playing the violin aged three, he was performing concertos by 15, and has since appeared alongside the London Symphony and Royal Philharmonic Orchestras, and worked with conductors like Zubin Mehta and Yannick Nécessaire.

But he is equally notable for his work beyond what might be seen as traditional classical music, collaborating with the likes of The Who, Bryan Adams and Miley Cyrus and composing virtuosic variations on famous song themes.

And if that's not enough, he also partners with top fashion houses like Armani and Hugo Boss.

So when we sat down together, I started by asking Charlie, what are the key ingredients of a classical soloist in the 21st century?

So do

you play Beethoven differently, or Tchaikovsky differently, having worked with Miley Cyrus, or having

worked with The Who before? I mean, I don't know.

I think that who I've become and who I am is a sort of, it's an accumulation of all the experiences that I've had and it happens that, you know, I've had those experiences that go beyond, you know, the classical sphere a little bit and it must have an impact one way or another because, you know, I'm the sum of all of that.

You know, you think about it as fans, you kinda just lump these people together.

You're like, "Oh, The Who and Led Zeppelin, they must all be friends." Like, in reality, no, they hate each other.

Yeah.

They're constantly being compared to each other.

It would also work really well if your last name was Thunder.

That would be really great.

What do, what do you think of, uh, y- you have the whole like thunder from down under thing?

Yeah.

Like, that they didn't know this.

That's the bass player of The Who.

I thought like all you had to say was John Entwistle and

they

But most of us just acquiesce in some ways and you're like, is this the hill I want to die on or is there more important things to focus on? You know, I don't, I still want to have like a critical, you know, be a critical thinker, but I just, music, you know, caring what bands people listen to, you know, that's a lot of energy.

Yeah.

And then also too, especially if you're, a creative person, an artist, the whole point about like you, you make art so that other people can hear it, see it, enjoy it.

And then like, so then the, the record label comes and you more people get to hear it.

The only thing I ever did was Hyde Park and there was about 200,000 people there.

And I remember watching The Who and Alanis Morissette and Bob Dylan.

Yeah.

Which people have been like, oh, amazing, got to see Bob Dylan.

I had his voice like this.

Yeah, it was dreadful.

But the Who were really cool.

Yeah.

I was like, really? Okay, we'll play that one then.

The B-side was Motoring, written by the production team of William Mickey Stevenson and Ivy Jill Hunter, along with Phil Jones, and that is one that The Who covered, which was the first time I ever heard that song.

It was from The Who cover, B-side of theirs.

But the A-side's even better.

They could easily have covered Nowhere to Run.

So they hurriedly set up a show for Bellingham at the club because the One of the opening bands apparently had connections to the club, and the club was like, sure, you can do a show here tonight.

So I got to see the second half of that set like three or four weeks ago.

This past Thursday, I saw the whole banana, the whole nine yards.

But two names on that list share something much stranger than their age.

Cass Elliott of the Mamas and the Papas and Keith Moon of the Who both died at 32.

They died four years apart under completely different circumstances.

but somehow they died in the exact same bedroom.

John Lennon was a fan.

Ringo Starr was a close friend.

He moved comfortably through the world of The Beatles, The Who, and many of the other artists who defined the era.

And Nielsen owned an apartment in Mayfair.

And there's a zombie on the plane.

And so the plane goes down and it happens to crash just outside of the WHO disease research facility.

Now,

he's trying to fly there.