S1E14: Billy Idol

Rockonteurs with Gary Kemp and Guy Pratt

Rhino UK

Interviews, Rock, Pop, Music

4.8 • 1.1K Ratings

🗓️ 6 December 2020

⏱️ 48 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 14 Gary Kemp and Guy Pratt speak to Billy Idol.

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0:00.0	Bills, they don't always have to be bad.
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0:10.0	bills that save you from that new foam fomo.
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0:27.0	Terms apply see giftGaff.com slash terms.
0:30.0	Here she comes. Oh, hello. Hello. Hello? Hello? My sounding good.
0:38.0	Hello. You sound fabulous.
0:40.0	Fruity. Yes. Right. Well, hello Gary. I hate guy. How's your shoulder? My shoulder is much better. I won't see the doctor today actually. And it looks like I'm on the mend. So I will play the violin again.
0:55.0	Yes exactly.
0:57.0	How about you into the hairdressers?
0:59.0	You celebrated the end of lockdown by going to the hairdressers?
1:02.0	I had a blue rinse of course. No, I got, actually I got it. How blue?
1:06.0	Short spiky and peroxide. In honor of our guest. In honor of our next guest.
1:13.7	Do you know what someone has actually said that we should ask him about the time he was barricaded inside a five-star Thai hotel suite, Thai hotel suite, and had to be shot with an elephant tranquilizer dart, strapped up like
1:26.5	Hannibal Lecter, then forcibly removed by the entire Thailand Special Forces.
1:31.8	Really?
1:33.0	I think you should ask him that then because I'm not going anywhere near it.
1:36.4	That sounds like we might be sued for that.
1:39.3	It's you he wants off yourself too.
1:42.3	I remember a time meeting Billy Idol for it is him who we are talking of
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