Robert Wyatt "Rock Bottom" (1974)
According to the book, Wyatt wrote much of the album while relaxing in Italy. His future wife (and album cover artist) Alfreda Benge was there to work on the film "Don't look now". Wyatt was in the process of assembling musicians to make the album when he suffered a 4-storey fall and ended up paralysed from the waist down.
A quote from Wyatt suggests that it took some adjustment but that it wasn't an unhappy time for him. He married his partner Alfreda the day the album was released.
For me this is one of those "what the hell did I just listen to?!" albums. I wasn't really familiar with Wyatt, but for some reason I thought he was going to be a sort of 70s rock type... this is an experimental jazzy/rock hybrid with random interludes of off-the-wall beat-poetry.
Great fun!
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