- Why did you decide to join UKIP?
- What are the main policies for UKIP?
- Why are you perceived as a racist party?
- A lot of students do not live locally therefore have to catch trains, buses etc which can be expensive, is there a system you will introduce which means students can get cheaper travel?
- How do you aim your policies to the younger generation?
- Teenagers from the ages 14-17 have a limited amount of socialising opportunities for example they can’t go to a pub if you’re under 18 and they are a bit too old for youth clubs? What could you introduce?
- What is your opinion on Nick Clegg’s recent change of decision about legalising drugs?
- It is difficult for young people leaving home, what could you do to support them gaining independence from their parents?
Two people filmed the event the other two asked the questions. We will be editing the footage and then send it to the Bath Chronicle.
The response we got from the politician was very interesting and he was great at answering our questions in detail.
Another task that we took part in was doing a box pop around Bath, I asked 20 people what they thought about Robin Thicke and Pharrell Willliams paying Marvin Gaye's family $7.4m after they were accused of copying Marvin's song Got to give it up. I then wrote on article on the subject:
Marvin Gaye’s children awarded $7.4m by Robin Thicke and Pharrell Williams over Blurred Lines.
On Tuesday A jury decides Marvin Gaye’s children are the rightful owners of nearly $7.4m after singers Robin Thicke and Pharrell Williams copied Marvin’s 1977 hit Got to Give It Up to create Blurred Lines, the biggest hit song of 2013.
Nona Gaye, daughter of Marvin Gaye wept as the jury read the verdict and was hugged by her attorney, Richard Busch. “Right now, I feel free,” Nona Gaye said after the verdict. “Free from… Pharrell Williams and Robin Thicke’s chains and what they tried to keep on us and the lies that were told.”
Thicke and Williams denied copying the hit and Williams told jurors that Gaye’s music was part of the soundtrack of his youth. But the seven-time Grammy winner said he didn’t use any of it to create blurred lines. Meanwhile, the Gaye family's lawyer said he wanted to stop the sales of Blurred Lines. “They fought this fight despite every odd being against them,” Busch said of the Gaye family outside court.
Williams, 41, signed a document stating he didn’t use any other artists’ work in the music and would be responsible if a successful copyright claim was raised as Thicke testified he was not present when the song was written, despite receiving credit.
An expert for the Gaye family said there were eight distinct elements from Got to Give It Up that were used in Blurred Lines, however an expert for Williams and Thicke denied that those similarities existed.
On Tuesday A jury decides Marvin Gaye’s children are the rightful owners of nearly $7.4m after singers Robin Thicke and Pharrell Williams copied Marvin’s 1977 hit Got to Give It Up to create Blurred Lines, the biggest hit song of 2013.
Nona Gaye, daughter of Marvin Gaye wept as the jury read the verdict and was hugged by her attorney, Richard Busch. “Right now, I feel free,” Nona Gaye said after the verdict. “Free from… Pharrell Williams and Robin Thicke’s chains and what they tried to keep on us and the lies that were told.”
Thicke and Williams denied copying the hit and Williams told jurors that Gaye’s music was part of the soundtrack of his youth. But the seven-time Grammy winner said he didn’t use any of it to create blurred lines. Meanwhile, the Gaye family's lawyer said he wanted to stop the sales of Blurred Lines. “They fought this fight despite every odd being against them,” Busch said of the Gaye family outside court.
Williams, 41, signed a document stating he didn’t use any other artists’ work in the music and would be responsible if a successful copyright claim was raised as Thicke testified he was not present when the song was written, despite receiving credit.
An expert for the Gaye family said there were eight distinct elements from Got to Give It Up that were used in Blurred Lines, however an expert for Williams and Thicke denied that those similarities existed.
Students played both songs to 20 shoppers in Bath and after hearing both songs, 80% of say that Robin Thicke and Pharrell Williams’ hit Blurred Lines sounded exactly the same to the 1977 hit Got to Give It Up. The remaining 20% recognised the similarity however did not understand the issues raised.
When asked is it fair for the artists to pay Marvin’s family the large sum of money the reactions were varied, around 60% say it is fair to pay up. However the remaining 40% say it is too extreme.
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