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Hello and welcome to the latest episode of full disclosure with me, James O'Brien,

and a weekly guest, as you've probably worked out by now,

who is here for no reason other than I would just like to get to know them a bit better than I currently do.

And rarely has there been a guest, Danny Baker, who fits so completely into that category. It's remarkable that our pals have never crossed,

really, given that you are a radio legend, and I am a radio apprentice. You're very much

the coming man, if you've already arrived. Me, I'm old grandpa from the home. Oh, I don't know about

that. I believe so um let's begin at the

beginning because i mean i i know quite a lot about you but it occurs to me that you arrived in the

public eye fully formed you're not someone that did your you're growing up in public no uh well in

in a way um if you if we consider arriving I suppose we've got to consider that television.

Yes.

I'd already had two spectacularly good jobs.

And television in a way was like, certainly amongst my contemporaries,

was like Elvis going in the Army, if that's not over-grandizing.

I'd been travelling the world with rock bands.

I'd recently come back from spending about three weeks

with both Earthwood and Fire and Michael Jackson in the States. And because, again, it's a

tangle route that led me even there, leaving score at 14, going into a record shop that turned

out to be the record shop in London, I answered an ad-ed-eatting standard,

so two weeks after that,

when my mates were all at school doing geography and, you know, would work.

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