S1E10: Nick Lowe

Rockonteurs with Gary Kemp and Guy Pratt

Rhino UK

Interviews, Rock, Pop, Music

4.8 • 1.1K Ratings

🗓️ 8 November 2020

⏱️ 41 minutes

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Summary

Rockonteurs is a podcast all about the real stories behind real music.

Presented by Spandau Ballet’s Gary Kemp, who wrote and performed megahits like ‘Gold’ and ‘True’, and Guy Pratt, a bass player who shaped songs for the likes of Madonna and Pink Floyd, you’ll hear exclusive stories of life on the road, in the studio and what really happened behind the scenes from artists who wrote, performed and produced the some of the biggest classic rock and pop tracks of all time.

Rockonteurs is a podcast all about the real stories behind real music. In episode 10 Gary Kemp and Guy Pratt speak to Nick Lowe.

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0:00.0	Hello and I am Guy Pratt.
0:05.0	This week on the show we are talking to an artist, a writer, a producer and a powerhouse of British pop.
0:12.0	A man who has written some of the best songs of the last 40 years.
0:16.0	Welcome to Rock on Tours, Nick Lowe.
0:18.8	We've first met, I'm sure we may have met before, but sitting at Robert Helms the broadcaster Robert
0:26.5	Elms his 60th birthday last year when all was sensible and we could do things
0:30.6	like that. No social distancing at that one.
0:33.4	I was thrilled to sit next to you because you've been so much part of my
0:37.6	musical history and dare I say growing up as well because I'm a little bit younger but certainly you know through that whole punk era and then into your sort of silver-headed more sort of personal
0:50.0	Dote.
0:51.0	Dote, yes.
0:53.0	Have you met Nick, Guy?
0:55.0	I have met Nick a long time ago.
0:57.0	It looked very, very long time.
0:58.0	When you were touring with Pink Floyd?
1:02.0	Yes.
1:03.0	It was a hotel room in New York.
1:05.0	I've been and Pete Thomas was involved I think.
1:08.0	Yeah, I think you're right.
1:10.0	And a Corby trouser press?
1:12.0	Always.
1:13.0	I have actually seen a cordy trouser press in a hotel room in America's, but only once.
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