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Rockonteurs with Gary Kemp and Guy Pratt

S1E17: Boy George

Rockonteurs with Gary Kemp and Guy Pratt

Rhino UK

Interviews, Rock, Pop, Music

4.81.1K Ratings

🗓️ 27 December 2020

⏱️ 62 minutes

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Summary

In a fun, frank and utterly compelling chat George talks to Guy and Gary about his career, the highs and lows of his mega stardom and his very first encounter with Spandau Ballet.

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0:00.0

Yeah, so right, who we've got today then?

0:02.8

Gary, we've got George, yes?

0:04.4

Yes, the boy.

0:05.6

Now, are you going to bring up?

0:07.2

There's a lovely story of when you were, was it the true album,

0:10.0

when you were finishing at Compass Point,

0:12.4

that Boy George was literally waiting at the door to come in.

0:15.8

No, it's more low rent than that actually. It was Red Bus Studios.

0:20.5

Where was the book? You changed it, you made it compass point.

0:25.0

I don't think I did, I think you must have been.

0:28.0

Where was red bus studios?

0:30.0

Where was that?

0:31.0

That was by Church Street Market in Off Edger Road.

0:35.0

Listen Grove Way. Yeah, right. So we weren't sunbathing anywhere. So we were, yeah, we were mixing gold and we've been mixing it all night. And know and it got to that stage we were mixing it for so long you know people suddenly started saying I can't hear the bass drum anymore you know as that good and and outside the door was was Steve Levine and boy George waiting to come in to finish off one of their mixes.

0:58.0

And that's the kind of life we led in the 80s, you know, when hits were being made so you know it was just it was just a

1:06.3

a factory you know it's a bit more what he said wasn't it wasn't he

1:10.6

would you get a move on so some real talent can come in?

1:17.2

Luckily he doesn't remember saying that probably by now.

1:19.6

The first time I will bring it up. No, I won't know. Yeah, and the first time I well I remember going to George's squat at Warren Street and we all went in spanned our ballet

1:30.9

Went in for this photo session it was our first photo shoot with Graham Smith taking the pictures who lived there as well at Warren Street Squad.

1:38.0

And as we were coming through the door, some George leant over the banister and said

1:44.6

I can sing better than your fucking singer any day. And in the end he was probably right

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