Steve Lillywhite on producing XTC

What Do You Call That Noise? The XTC Podcast by Mark Fisher

Aug 14, 202667:10Music

The special guest in today’s episode of What Do You Call that Noise? The XTC Podcast is Steve Lillywhite who, in 1979, was the 24-year-old producer of Life Begins at the Hop , XTC’s first single featuring Dave Gregory, f...

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