Piers Morgan Tonight – Arthur Baker Freebass Remix chosen for
trailer for CNN’s Larry King’s replacement.
Former Daily Mirror editor Piers Morgan has long since left the print industry for a television career and his increasing profile, especially in the US with his role of judge on America’s Got Talent, has seen him land one of the most prestigious job in journalism as the replacement for America’s foremost interviewer Larry King as retires from his “Larry King Live” 9pm CNN show.
“Piers Morgan Tonight” launches Monday 17th January in the Larry King slot and with Piers as the King-In-Waiting of US chat, he is joined in the first show by the Queen of Stateside TV, Oprah Winfrey, who has recently launched her own TV channels, OWN (Oprah Winfrey Network).
Freebass’ “You Don’t Know This About Me”, Arthur Baker remix has been chosen to soundtrack the advance thirty second television promo for this much anticipated launch, with the theme “You Don’t Know This About... Piers.”
Both Peter Hook and 80s electro pioneer Arthur Baker chat to Jonty Skrufff - international DJ, producer, journalist and founder of independent press agency Skrufff.com - about the unlikely link-up on his blog.
The track was recorded early on in Freebass sessions before the band found a lead singer and The Charlatan’s Tim Burgess wrote the vocal for his Mancunian rock star pals driving round the Hollywood Hills before it became the lead track on Freebass’ debut EP "Two Worlds Collide."
The EP which featured all three bassists who formed the band (Hooky, Mani, Rourkie) and guest vocalists, was released digitally on Haçienda Records in March 2010 and as a physical release by Haçienda Records / 24 Hour Service Station October 2010.
Opening with a trademark Peter Hook bassline, “You Don’t Know This About Me” proves a melodic and dramatic, stylish turn with an ascendant Stateside feel that permeates the track, appropriately enough since Tim wrote and recorded the vocal from his home in LA. Arch guitars interplay surrounds Tim’s vocal which also underpins the rework by New Order production legend Arthur Baker which is the version employed in the advert, a subtle but hypnotic acid house reworking.
Tim remembers “Hooky gave me a couple of tracks to on and that was the one that came most naturally to me. I think it’s got more of a touch of Joy Division to it than New Order really and I started thinking about Iggy Pop and Ian Curtis. I honestly tried to think about what Hooky would like. I was pretty sure that Hooky loved being on the road so that’s where that section “I love the road” came from but then it all got a bit surreal.”
Two World Collide also feature contributions from reformed ex Oxford drug smuggling beatnik tunred international raconteur Howard Marks who turned in a once in a sterling vocal on “Dark Starr”, a darkly grungey piece of rock and roll mischief and brought Pete Wylie into the surreal on “The Milky Way Is Our Playgroud” a soaring, poetic, euphoric space rock track with a star-struck cerebral vocal from our Liverpool “The Story Of The Blues" man.
Listen to the Arthur Baker remix of "You Dont Know This About Me" below.
