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George Ezra & Friends

023. Lewis Capaldi

George Ezra & Friends

Sony Music

Society & Culture, Music

4.93.4K Ratings

🗓️ 24 December 2019

⏱️ 95 minutes

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Summary

For our special Christmas 2019 episode we have the artist of the year, Mr Lewis Capaldi. The “Scottish Beyoncé” has had an incredible year, including his debut album hitting #1 in the UK, his huge single ‘Someone You Loved’ hitting #1 in the UK and the US, countless tours and festival appearances including Glastonbury and TRSMT. Lewis tells George about how he fell in love with singing when he was 9 years old, they discuss studying music at college, how Lewis got his start in the industry, his honesty in his song writing, his meteoric rise to stardom and everything in-between. This podcast was edited by Liam Thorne. The animations and visuals are thanks to Oisin Griffin. Thank you to Josh Sanger and the Closer Artists team. Thanks to Lewis for chatting with George. And of course, thank YOU for downloading and supporting this podcast.

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0:00.0

Hello ladies and gentlemen and welcome to this special episode of George Ezra and friends

0:21.6

the podcast.

0:22.6

It is of course a Christmas special and the guest is none other than Mr Lewis Capowdy.

0:29.3

So Lewis thank you so much for your time and Lewis came and spent the afternoon which

0:34.9

rolled into an evening once some was evening earlier in 2019 and it was just remarkable

0:43.0

that he found the time for me and he is an extremely busy young man and he had for him

0:50.0

to find the time to come and see me which just meant a lot.

0:53.4

So thank you very much Lewis and such a legend.

0:57.6

So thank you Lewis thank you very much and I should say this is one of two special episodes.

1:03.0

Now what happened was I started to record what would have become series 3 of the show

1:09.9

and it became very apparent very quickly that I wasn't going to have the time but with

1:15.8

other commitments in my diary to get another series together in the amount of time that

1:21.9

we were hoping for and at that moment when we realised that I had a lot of fun and I

1:27.4

had two episodes recorded which means there is going to be a new year special episode

1:34.2

as well.

1:35.2

Now I don't know if it's going to come on New Year's Eve or early in the new year but

1:39.3

there is a very special guest and all I want to say is that they are an absolute legend

1:48.0

and when I got the call to say we could do the show my jaw dropped and in fact what I

1:54.2

also say is a bit more of a clue is she is an absolute legend.

2:01.2

So there you go.

2:03.4

If you are new to this show if this is the first episode that you've listened to I would

2:08.9

urge you to go back and listen to the other series just pick out a few names that you know

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