Nov 5, 2002 • 1 min read

Aqualung vows never to release poor singles for radio play

Matt Hales, aka Aqualung, tells Radio 1 he will never release a poor-quality single just to secure airplay, saying his focus is on albums.

Matt Hales, aka Aqualung, has vowed to never release a poor quality single just to ensure radio play. He told Radio 1: "Aqualung is always gonna be about selling albums. I think it's brilliant if you can pull it off. You can also have songs on the radio that can touch people - and that's a great thing 'cause singles can be very commercialised, very slight, very dull and very conservative as a whole, because they're so explicitly a marketing device. You'll never get that from Aqualung, you can always be sure it will always be a song with passion and with heart in it. There's nothing wrong with a few of them on the radio from time to time…"

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