On this episode we welcome a guest songwriter who wrote and sang a massive worldwide HIT that lit up the eighties pop charts and is still being played to this day.

Tim and Phil chat with Clark Datchler, writer and singer of the eighties standard ‘Shattered Dreams’ - shattering the charts from the UK to USA.  We talk about the clever musical modulations and the twists and turns it took to produce this breakthrough hit for his band Johnny Hates Jazz

We also gas about his part in the success of Hollywood director David Fincher(!) and how he almost wrote with Take That. 

Due to the current crisis we’ve been lucky enough to record this episode remotely in lockdown with Clark speaking from Surrey, Tim in north London and Phil in Suffolk.

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