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‘Nothing was recorded in real time’ … Robin Scott playing a DJ in the video. Photograph: -

Robin Scott, singer, songwriter, producer

I had been a singer-songwriter in David Bowie’s Beckenham Arts Lab, and ended up working with my old art school friend Malcolm McLaren as punk started happening. I was in Paris making a live recording of the Slits when someone said: “Why don’t you do something yourself?” I asked an engineer if there was any downtime at the studio so I could lay down some ideas.