Aug 27, 2026 · 31 min · 10 segments
Host Holly Carnegie, chats to English songwriter, record producer, and one third of Stock, Aitken and Waterman - Mike Stock. Mike talks about his home studios, the future of pop songwriting and…
Mike StockGuest
Holly CarnegieHost
It's kind of a spin-off of Bucks Fizz, isn't it, with two of the original members.
What, what we, what we were aiming at there, having written the song based on a sort of an idea, that, you know, you'd, you'd, you've talked to Trevor Horn, haven't you? And one of the things he did back in the day was Dollar.
Um, and we were listening to sort of contemporaneous stuff from '81, '82, '83, around that period.
And so rather than tr- reinvent the whole idea, just sort of went back with that.
It's kind of a spin-off of Bucks Fizz, isn't it, with two of the original members.
What, what we, what we were aiming at there, having written the song based on a sort of an idea, that, you know, you'd, you'd, you've talked to Trevor Horn, haven't you? And one of the things he did back in the day was Dollar.
Um, and we were listening to sort of contemporaneous stuff from '81, '82, '83, around that period.
And so rather than tr- reinvent the whole idea, just sort of went back with that.
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