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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
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Interviews by Dave Simpson

‘I broke down in the studio from all the raw emotion’: Richard Hawley on making The Ocean

Richard Hawley performing in Sheffield in 2006.
Richard Hawley performing in Sheffield in 2006. Photograph: Avalon/Getty Images

Richard Hawley, singer, songwriter

My wife, Helen, had driven our two young kids down to Porthcurno beach in Cornwall. It’s where Rowena Cade had carved the Minack theatre into the granite cliffs. I’d been playing a gig so arrived two days later, and for a boy from a smoggy industrial city, the blue sea and palm trees felt revelatory.

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