It was ten years ago and prolific scribe John Carney’s excellent Shivers Inside series was spiraling to an end but not before he pontificated on this glorious Television Personalities’ 45 and the hint of the bleak. And, at some length
“The new TVPs recordings were meant to be pretty bleak. We know that now of course because those songs became ‘The Painted Word’, much later, and of course it’s one of those records that have grown in significance and stature. But it took so long to appear.” Read more.