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Robert Wyatt: “I couldn’t have been a pop musician – you’re told what to do and you have to fit into a format”

Robert Wyatt, speaking in the new issue of Uncut, reveals that he could never have been a pop star, despite scoring a 1974 hit with a cover of The Monkees’ “I’m A Believer”.

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Robert Wyatt, speaking in the new issue of Uncut, reveals that he could never have been a pop star, despite scoring a 1974 hit with a cover of The Monkees’ “I’m A Believer”.

Wyatt charts the making of the track in the new Uncut, along with contributions from the musicians who played on the song – Pink Floyd’s Nick Mason (who also produced the song and Wyatt’s 1974 album Rock Bottom), Caravan’s Richard Sinclair, Henry Cow’s Fred Frith and Matching Mole keyboardist Dave MacRae.

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“I like pop music, but that show side of it, I can’t be bothered,” says Wyatt. “When you get to a certain profile in pop, you’re told what to do and you have to fit into a format, and that was completely alien to me.

“So I couldn’t have been a pop musician, really.”

The new issue of Uncut, dated February 2014, is out now.

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