It's actually the dry-eyed, sotto voce restraint of what Elvis Costello, Clive Langer and Robert Wyatt did in Shipbuilding that pins you to the spot when you hear it today.

Robert Wyatt Releases Greatest Misses. By ... 06 Sea Song 07 Little Red Robin Hit the Road 08 Solar Flares 09 At Last I Am Free 10 Arauco 11 The Age of Self 12 Alien 13 Shipbuilding 14 Memories of ...

The amazing Robert Wyatt has never really been a “hits” guy — the closest he came was with his gorgeous cover of Elvis Costello’s “Shipbuilding” which reached #35 in the UK charts in ...

Robert Wyatt: Shleep. Skip to the content. ... via his well-regarded interpretations of songs as varied as Neil Diamond's "I'm A Believer" and Elvis Costello's "Shipbuilding." ...

An intimate portrait of the musician Robert Wyatt in his own words and music, from psychedelic excess to a life-changing accident. From October 2012. Show more Robert Wyatt has been recognised as ...

“Shipbuilding” is from his 1983 album Punch The Clock, it’s a song that Elvis Costello wrote with Clive Langer during the Falklands War, ... It was for Robert Wyatt.

Others, meanwhile, think primarily of Wyatt’s solo releases: the Virgin period in the 1970s, best represented by Rock Bottom, often cited as one of the best albums of all time; the more political ...

Wyatt was the drummer (he learnt to play in Robert Graves’s garden in Mallorca) and shared vocal duties with Kevin Ayers and, for a time, Daevid Allen. But that is distant history. Wyatt has been a ...

Robert Wyatt has been recognised as a prog-rock drummer, jazz composer, avant-garde cornet player, artist and activist in a wheelchair. But, above all else, he has been known by one of the most ...

Different Every Time, my authorised biography of Robert Wyatt, didn’t take me all those six years to write, although it has certainly taken a while longer than I, or my publisher, expected.(I recently ...

Robert Wyatt, with his high, reedy voice, is an acquired taste for some. “Shipbuilding”, a song written for him by Elvis Costello and Clive Langer, was released in 1982 shortly after the Falklands war ...

ROBERT WYATT has been appointed artistic director of this year’s MELTDOWN festival, which will run from Saturday June 9 to Saturday June 23 at LONDON’s ROYAL FESTVIAL HALL. Revered within the ...