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Planet Porky

95: Striving, thriving and driving

Planet Porky

Planet Porky

Personal Journals, News, Society & Culture, News Commentary

3.8646 Ratings

🗓️ 12 May 2020

⏱️ 45 minutes

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Summary

Mike Parry and Lesley-Ann Jones are back to get stuck into all the big topics on the latest Planet Porky podcast. Today they discuss: Little Richard, the varying attitudes to lockdown, Mick Jagger's chateau, Prince Andrew's lucky escape, Brian May's bum, Apple Scruffs, getting better with age, mind over matter and Russia. There's a Fleet Street tale or two too!

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0:00.0

Okay, welcome folks. You have tuned in to another edition of Life on Planet Porky. Thank you very much

0:29.3

indeed for joining myself, the Porkmeister and Leslie Ann Jones this morning. We hope to be able to light up

0:36.7

the universe over the next 40 minutes.

0:39.6

And Leslie Ann, I have to say, you never failed to amaze me or surprise me.

0:44.7

I picked up the story of the incredible rocker, Little Richard Dine, over the weekend.

0:51.1

And what do I see next? You've actually got a story about meeting the man.

0:55.4

Is there anybody in the show was where you haven't met? And please tell me about your experience.

1:01.4

Oh, you know what? It was all in a day's work back in the day. We obviously this was our job.

1:07.6

We did meet all the rock stars. We did get to interview them. We did spend time with

1:11.5

them. And I had the wildest night out of my life in West Hollywood with Little Richard back in

1:18.0

1985.

1:19.1

Good job. So he'd just been in England, actually. He'd been working on a new album called Lifetime Friend.

1:26.6

And he'd had a car accident. He crashed into a

1:29.6

telephone pole. He broke his right leg and several of his ribs. And he had all these head and facial

1:35.4

injuries and stuff. But it didn't stop him. He said, no, no, no, no, no. Nothing stops me going out

1:40.6

on the night on the tiles. Lovely young lady in from london out we go and there wasn't a bar

1:46.9

or a club in the whole of west hollywood we didn't turn over that night he honestly he he left me

1:53.7

in a heap in the corner i think it took me about a month to get over it how many people were in his

1:58.7

entourage when you went out oh Oh, just the two of us.

2:01.8

Yeah, yeah. How did he cotton on to you? You know, he's one of the biggest rock stars historically

2:07.4

in the world. You drift into West Hollywood. Where did you bump into him? Well, I didn't. I had an

2:12.5

arrangement with him. There was a guy called Charles White, amazing eccentric himself.

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