Quote from The British Grove Broadcast: "I’m sure you’d get lots of different answers if you ask people what their favourite Ennio Morricone piece was because there are so many pieces that mark out a major film territory over the past 40 odd years and I could probably still remember “The Good, The Bad and The Ugly” music that I would be probably be singing in a classroom, banging on my desk. I used to get into trouble for making those electric guitar sounds with my voice, you know, and still, lots of bits in me that don’t grow up and I still do “Wipe Out” on tabletops. But, going back to Morricone, he had a huge effect on me, I think. You pick up all, a lot of signals that he put into his music, and they come out in lots of other ways. Anyhow, I remember touring in Italy a long time ago and meeting mister Morricone, they brought him along into a hotel where I was and we had a nice time together and I mentioned a piece of music, I think it was “The Strong” from “The Good, The Bad and The Ugly” and mister Morricone went out to a piano and attempted to remember how it went but of course he made so many pieces of music, but anyway, he had a pretty good go and we had a pretty good time."
