Spyro the dragon video game8/26/2023 Little did I know – the first time I booted up the game and heard that hypnotic, enticing track that welcomes you to Spyro’s world – that the drummer of The Police was behind more or less every bar of music you heard in the game. So how did a young, greasy-haired greebo (that’s 2004 for ‘kid that’s into metal’) get into a band that wrapped up all its loose ends and took its last breath almost two decades earlier? As it happens, it was through Spyro the Dragon. READ MORE: ‘Final Fantasy 15’, Florence + The Machine, and an ode to ‘Stand By Me’. The Police – with their new wave sensibilities and nigh-incomprehensible lyrical babbling – weren’t really on their radar. My mum was more into Northern Soul and disco, peeling off occasionally for some reggae or pop. My dad’s taste in music was either much more CBGB – anything sweaty, coated in spit, rallying against whatever there was to be rallied against – or tended towards to morose laments of Ian Curtis and the incessant basslines of Peter Hook. My parents weren’t exactly into The Police. This week, Dom Peppiatt looks back on a PlayStation juggernaut – Spyro the Dragon – and reflects on how an unlikely video game for children kickstarted a love for one of Britain’s most infamous new wave exports. Rock The Spacebar is a twice-monthly column investigating the great music that underpins your favourite games.
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