Talk Show with Harper Simon
Episode 54
Real Life with the Rock N’ Roll Circus: Michael Lindsay-Hogg Talks the Beatles, Stones, and Other Explorations
Jumpin’ Jack Flash and Let It Be video director Michael Lindsay-Hogg details working with the Beatles and the Rolling Stones, the infamous Rock and Roll Circus, and the unlikely detours he has had on a notable life of creativity. Making the first music videos, the rise of MTV, his painting career, and how drugs and rock and roll, luck and circumstances took him to strange places he couldn’t have imagined are all explored in this interview on Harper Simon’s TALK SHOW.
Episode Breakdown
00:01 Welcoming Michael Lindsay-Hogg to Talk Show.
01:08 Jumpin Jack Flash and the Rolling Stones.
03:30 Luck and Circumstance, Geraldine Fitzgerald, and Hearst mansion.
11:08 Ready, Steady, Go! and The Rolling Stones Rock and Roll Circus.
14:45 Drugs and rock and roll.
17:33 Mick Jagger, John Lennon and Filming the Rock and Roll Circus
23:26 Filming The Beatles, Let It Be.
31:01 MTV and competitive music videos.
33:38 Directing THE NORMAL HEART play and working public theatre.
37:25 Painting and group art shows at The Lodge.
38:42 Thank you and goodbye.
Guest Bio
Born and raised in New York City and rumored progeny of Orson Welles, Mr. Lindsay-Hogg was a pioneer of the music video, directing the 1960s British television rock series “Ready, Steady, Go!” and The Beatles final public performance and film, Let It Be. He is also a painter and published author of LUCK AND CIRCUMSTANCE.
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