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Rockonteurs with Gary Kemp and Guy Pratt

S10E6: Richard Branson talks to Gary Kemp and Guy Pratt

Rockonteurs with Gary Kemp and Guy Pratt

Rhino UK

Pop, Interviews, Music, Rock

4.81.2K Ratings

🗓️ 11 October 2025

⏱️ 46 minutes

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Summary

This week on the Rockonteurs podcast, we welcome a true visionary of the music business.

Guy and Gary welcome Richard Branson to Rockonteurs to discuss the early days of the Virgin empire, one that was built on music and culture. 

Richard shares tales of starting a small record shop in London to sell his favourite new records, to signing some of the biggest artists in the world. 

The Keith Richards story will go down as one of our all time favourites. 

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0:41.9

Hello Gary.

0:42.8

Hello, Guy, so we're in a virgin hotel.

0:45.4

We are in a virgin hotel.

0:47.1

Why is that?

0:48.3

I don't know you're talking.

0:49.3

We're in a virgin hotel because we're speaking to the man behind the name.

0:56.8

Yeah, who invented the whole concept of Virgin as a, well, no, that's wrong. Yeah, where are we going with it? Well, so, Virgin on

1:04.9

the ridiculous. We are, we are talking to Richard Branson, because it was so important in the music

1:09.9

business. You know, I, when I first started buying records, I would go to Oxford Street and go above that

1:15.6

shoe shop and buy records in a really strange little, well-cureated record store.

1:21.8

I never went to that one, Notting or Gay, which was the second one.

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