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Thomas Dolby Biography

Thomas Morgan Robertson (born 14 October 1958), known by the stage name Thomas Dolby, is an English musician, singer and producer. His hit singles include "She Blinded Me with Science" from 1982 and the 1984 single "Hyperactive!". He has also worked in production and as a session musician, as a technology entrepreneur in Silicon Valley, and as the Music Director for the TED Conference. Currently on faculty at the Peabody Institute at Johns Hopkins University, Dolby will lead Peabody’s Music for New Media program, slated to enroll its first students in the fall semester of 2018.

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Switch off the mind and let the heart decide who you were meant to be Flick to remote and let the body glide There is no enemy! Etch out a future of your own design Well tailored to your needs Then fan the flame and keep the dream alive. . . . . . the future is roses! Roses!

Alive, Dream, Future, Heart

I've been out on the periphery.

Periphery

It was supposed to be a year or two just to refresh my batteries, but I moved to Silicon Valley in the early 90's, and one thing let to another, got very involved in high tech, and formed a company and it ended up doing pretty well.

Involved, Pretty, Technology, Two, Year, Years

So evidently music was a killer app and is a killer app for computer and the Internet; it just took the tech industry a long time to hear that message.

Evidently, Killers, Long, Message, Technology, Took

While I'm impressed with the length of those legs, she's not an intellectual giant.

Giants, Intellectual, Legs, Length, Quality

She blinded me with science and failed me in geometry.

Blinded, Education, Failed, Geometry

The games industry is already bigger than the music industry, and it's mainly directed at teenage boys.

Teenage, Boys, Games, Mainly, Already

Well, you know, I mean, I first did my live shows in the late 70's and in those days I had a boatload of equipment that always seemed to be going wrong.

Equipment, Firsts, Know, Mean, Seemed, Wrong

Smother me in your hot sauce woman until smoke comes from your thighs.

Hot, Sauce, Sex, Smoke, Smother, Thighs

It's poetry in motion, when she turned her tender eyes to me.

Eye, Eyes, Motion, Poetry, Romantic, Tender

When the polar ice caps melt, my recording studio will rise up like an ark, and I'll float off into the drowned world like a character from a J. G. Ballard novel.

Ark, Caps, Character, Drowned, Ice, Ocean

Etch out the future on your own design.

Design, Etch, Future, Inspirational

I started looking at small companies that were running a sort of virtual reality cottage industry: I had imagined that I would just put on a helmet and be somewhere else - that's your dream of what it's going to be.

Companies, Dream, Reality, Running, Sort

So I'll set a cycle in motion and pop it into record and I'll lay down a drum pattern, a bass line, a keyboard and guitar part, and once the groove is going I launch into the song and sing my song over the top.

Guitar, Line, Part, Record, Records, Song

I was very pleased to find that once I had records out music videos were starting to happen, so I directed some of my own music videos and got to experiment in other areas of expression.

Experiment, Expression, Records, Video

It's been over 15 years since I toured. . . over 12 years since I did any recording under my own name. I never really intended to take that long of a hiatus.

Long, Names, Recording, Toured, Years