“I just really want to make the greatest art I can,” Stormzy tells Trevor Nelson on A Stormzy Special, set to premiere on BBC One tonight courtesy of BBC Music. “That’s all that success is to me right now. The by-product of that, God willing, is that you sell a couple records, but I can’t focus on that.”
The iconic Abbey Road Studios, hallowed recording base for music legends such as The Beatles, Pink Floyd and Aretha Franklin in its near century-long history, seem to vibrate with a euphoric energy as Stormzy, with his extended band, sings his heart out with the confidence of a young man comfortable in his own skin. Unafraid to lay himself bare, to be human.
