Simon Webster Frith[1] OBE (born 1946) is a British sociomusicologist and former rock critic who specializes in popular music culture.[2] He is Professor Emeritus of Music at University of Edinburgh. (wikipedia)
I never ever think we have got a winner wrong.
The album was deemed eligible, we listened to it and we decided it could not fail to move anyone who heard it. That's what a Mercury record should be all about.
It is the most extraordinary album. It doesn't sound like anything else around. I don't think anybody could be unmoved by it, which is a what a Mercury record should be all about.
It doesn't seem to have any obvious place where it's coming from - and yet play it to anybody and they're arrested.
We just listen to the records we are given. If he wasn't eligible then we wouldn't have been listening to it.