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Rockonteurs with Gary Kemp and Guy Pratt

S137: Jools Holland

Rockonteurs with Gary Kemp and Guy Pratt

Rhino UK

Interviews, Rock, Pop, Music

4.81.1K Ratings

🗓️ 15 May 2021

⏱️ 58 minutes

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Summary

This week, Guy and Gary are joined by the country’s finest musical ringmaster, the ever effervescent Jools Holland.

It’s a joyous romp through his career from falling in love with the piano, joining Squeeze, leaving Squeeze, fronting the iconic and game changing TV show ‘The Tube’, through to creating ‘Later’ and touring the globe with his Rhythm and Blues Orchestra, this is one not to miss!



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0:00.0

Hey Guy.

0:01.0

Hello, Gary.

0:02.0

It was really nice to see you in person the other day in a rehearsal room.

0:06.0

That was amazing.

0:07.0

It was amazing to see you and other people.

0:08.0

It was also really nice to actually perform some sort of a show to an audience of two.

0:13.0

Yeah.

0:14.0

And they were tested, obviously.

0:17.0

It's socially distant.

0:20.0

No, we got together for, I routine a few of the songs for my new record with Guy. What a band that was nice to play with other musicians. It was fantastic. It was an absolute joy so thank you for that. We all need that and we are getting some great

0:34.0

responses on stuff out we are the the Beatles one was with Giles was was cooking yeah

0:40.0

we seem to have tapped into the huge subculture of Beatles groups on social media.

0:47.2

Sorry not Beatles groups obviously.

0:49.7

Some of it were only two people probably.

0:52.1

Yeah exactly.

0:54.0

But yeah, but that has been fantastic.

0:55.8

And listen, we've got another rather encyclopedic one today, haven't we?

0:59.2

It's someone who's kind of, there's no one he hasn't come across. He's played with everybody and you know what this guy has given to British music and young bands still to this day with whether his work on the tube or you know later or whatever it might be I mean he's

1:15.2

and a way of speaking the other way of speaking and he apparently has this enormous

1:20.3

enormous train sir don't don't don't don't yes that's enormous well I don't think he's had he's got anything to do with Prague for sure but no one on this

1:34.4

show who's got anything to do with boogie woogie that's very very true so I think I

1:38.6

think you just actually gave away our guest there so we actually don't need to

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