He joined Roxy Music for their reunion album Manifesto in 1979, then sang and played keyboards for Squeeze on their iconic East Side Story album in 1981, which yielded the unforgettable 'Tempted.'Įven while eking out a solo career post-Squeeze (enjoying U.S. As frontman of pub-rock Ace, he took 'How Long' to the U.K. To watch Reading Rainbow and to download the app, visit their website.Like some sort of blue-eyed soul version of Zelig, Paul Carrack has been a fixture of British rock for decades. The three children’s books can be found via Amazon in the following links: Eight Days Gone (), Watch Out for Wolfgang () and Miss Martin is a Martian (). It’s a book that asks kids to be curious, to push themselves and to think for themselves – a message Reading Rainbow itself was founded upon. It’s a nice nod to how earthshattering learning can be and how those who are more knowledgeable can on the outset seem weird or foreign. Melvin, a young boy starting the school year, comes to believe his teacher, Miss Martin, is a Martian because she simply knows too much, most certainly more than any human should. The last book read, Miss Martin is a Martian (by Colleen Murray Fisher), is a sweet parable on the inherent joys of learning. It’s strange to think that the goody two-shoes Apollo would make for the best big bad wolf – but Bamber more than proved himself an excellent storyteller. A special mention must be given to Jamie Bamber, his droll British delivery, perfectly complimenting Carrick’s sardonic take on the ‘wolf’. Wolfgang takes enormous satisfaction from tearing these poor robots apart – and the actors gathered seemed to relish the opportunity to play “the big bad wolf”. Much of the joy in the story comes from just how truly dark it is willing to go. The book, a riff on The Three Little Pigs, repurposes the Grimms’ fairy tale into a dystopian landscape where three robot brothers must fend off against a malicious recycler – the titular Wolfgang. The sparse writing style made the story a nice warm-up for the next two books that followed.īurton, joined by the Battlestar Galactica cast, read from Peter Carrick’s Watch Out For Wolfgang. It’s a really lovely piece of writing by McReynolds, surprisingly complex in its simplicity. The children’s book, an account of Apollo 11’s eight-day mission to the moon, is a poetic almost haiku-esque take on that landmark event. Burton came up on stage first and read Eight Days Gone by Linda McReynolds. Space was the focus of the live show – the three books read all in some way connected to the theme.

Watch Out for Wolfgang by Paul Carrick