"During the spring of 1973, I began to reorganize a new group to perform the material I was preparing (...). On June 1st 1973, the night before the new group was to have its first rehearsal, I fell from a fourth floor window and broke my spine. I was sent to Stoke Mandeville Hospital for eight months, where they saved my life and taught me how to live in a wheelchair.
I spent 3 months lying flat on my back, gazing at the ceiling of a surreal public dormitory amongst 20 others whose lives had also radically changed in a split second (...). I came to terms with the fact that I was no longer a drummer (...) I'd have to concentrate on recording, and I'd have to sing more (...) I would be able to choose different musicians for differents songs (...) The loss of my legs might give me a new kind of freedom (...)"
Robert Wyatt, 1998.
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