Contributors
Collated by Toby Benjamin with a text by Chris Roberts, there are also 80 written contributions from bands, label owners, DJs and creatives, all of whom have been inspired or influenced by the music and art of Talk Talk. They include:
- Guy Garvey
- Elbow
- Alan Wilder
- Depeche Mode/Recoil
- Richard Reed Parry
- Arcade Fire
- Luke Rhinehart
- Author
- John Connolly
- Author
- James Lavelle
- Unkle
- Rolf Klausener
- The Acorn
- James Diers
- Halloween, Alaska
- Jason Lytle
- Grandaddy
- Nick McCabe
- The Verve/The Black Ships
- Olly Knights
- Turin Brakes
- Gale Paridjanian
- Turin Brakes
- Rob Allum
- Turin Brakes
- Richard Wright
- Pink Floyd
- Mark Radcliffe
- DJ, author and musician
- Patrick G. Wilson
- Weezer
- Jonathan Meiburg
- Shearwater
- Tom Fleming
- Wild Beasts
- Duncan Sheik
- Singer/Songwriter
- Neil Mason
- Melody Maker/NME.com
- Matt Johnson
- The The
- Paul Hartnoll
- Orbital
- David (Kid) Jensen
- Radio 1 DJ and presenter of the Talk Talk Radio 1 session of 1981
- Ian Ball
- Gomez
- Jimi Goodwin
- Doves
- Wayne Hemingway
- Hemingway Design
- Sean Carey
- Bon Iver
- Karl Hyde
- Underworld
- Steve Beckett
- Warp Records
- Crispin Hunt
- Long Pigs
- Charles Cave
- White Lies
- Simon Williams
- Fierce Panda Records
- Graham Sutton
- Bark Psychosis
- Joan Wasser
- Joan As Police Woman
- Kenny Anderson
- King Creosote
- Gideon Coe
- DJ and presenter
- Sir Peter Blake
- Artist
The Spirit of Talk Talk also includes extracts from the Talk Talk chapters of Phil Brown’s book Are We Still Rolling, as well as interviews with Talk Talk musicians:
- John Turnbull
- David Rhodes
- Ian Curnow
- Martin Ditcham
- Phil Reis
- EMI’s Nigel Reeve
- ‘The Colour of Spring’ engineer Dennis Weinreich