Breaking the fourth wall with Thomas Dolby [Video]

In the 80s Thomas Dolby was the mad professor of synth, now turned actual professor. Classic Pop joins one of music’s most cerebral artists to talk academia, AI, musical resurrections and novels…

Pop star, record producer, film composer, tech entrepreneur, author, academic, filmmaker… few people embody the phrase ‘renaissance man’ more than Thomas Dolby. In the last 10 years alone, he has put out a best-selling memoir (2016’s The Speed Of Sound: Breaking The Barriers Between Music And Technology), joined the famed Johns Hopkins University as lecturer and written his first novel.

“I’ve just really enjoyed teaching these past few years,” Dolby tells Classic Pop from his home in Baltimore. “I left school at 16 but I’m from a long line of Oxford and Cambridge professors. Only the other day someone said to me I’d finally joined the family firm!”

So what, we ask, does the composer of She Blinded Me With Science and …