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The Fat Emperor Podcast

Ep151: What's Another Year? Johnny Logan Reveals All!

The Fat Emperor Podcast

ivor cummins

Health & Fitness

4.8766 Ratings

🗓️ 15 August 2022

⏱️ 48 minutes

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Summary

Something a little different today - I caught up with Eurovision sensation Johnny Logan, and had a great conversation on overcoming adversity and reclaiming greatness - it requires courage, character, tenacity and gumption!

Johnny's page for all of his great music: https://johnnylogan.com/

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0:00.0

Hey all, something a bit different today and should be of particular interest to the Irish

0:05.0

because I'm going to be interviewing Johnny Logan who was the music sensation way back in the day

0:11.0

and he won the Eurovision Song Contest three times with What's Another Year? Hold Me Now, I think it was 87

0:20.0

and then why me with a different singer, but he

0:23.3

composed it in 92. So huge sensation in Ireland and across Europe. And I'm delighted John

0:29.7

Kylie, a mutual friend, connected us and we're going to go through the fascinating life that he's

0:35.4

led and where he is now. So great to meet you, Sean. I know you go

0:39.7

with the name of Sean now. It's really nice to meet you too. John told me all about you. So I see

0:45.2

that's how we obviously we make contact. Yeah, John's a great guy and you know we might talk

0:51.4

towards the end about this. It the same about you it says the same

0:54.7

about you ah yeah well i've been i've been doing what i can to help by five children so i've

1:00.0

been trying to help people understand the last few years insofar as i can but anyway but you know what

1:06.4

we might start with going through that kind of heady he heavy period, if you will, where all the success was happening

1:12.7

and you became an absolute household name in Ireland.

1:16.4

It's, if I mean, if I may interject, it's kind of weird,

1:19.6

you know, because when you're talking about the stuff,

1:21.9

1980 with once another year, hold me now, 87, 92,

1:26.7

why me?

1:31.0

Last week, the duet that i did over here with andrea berg went to number one in the first week of its release here so it's there i have the number

1:35.6

the number the i'm on the number one album here in germany now at the moment with the single and never

1:39.8

walk alone from that it's a i wrote the lyrics for the english lyric for it as well so it's kind of

1:44.9

fortuitousness at the age of 68 i said it seems you'll ever you're this is a lesson to some of the

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