S1E2: Bob Geldof

Rockonteurs with Gary Kemp and Guy Pratt

Rhino UK

Interviews, Rock, Pop, Music

4.8 • 1.1K Ratings

🗓️ 12 September 2020

⏱️ 58 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 2 Gary Kemp and Guy Pratt speak to Bob Geldof.

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0:00.0	Hello, I'm Guy Pratt and I'm Gary Kim. And welcome to Rock On Tours, our new weekly podcast where we get to chat to some of our favorite people.
0:17.0	Now it's a strange time and when we started thinking about making this series we thought we'd be able to just get together with some of our
0:23.5	friends to chat and we hope that still happens. So recently we jumped on our
0:29.1	computers and called up our pal Bob Geldof. Here's our chat with a great man.
0:33.7	Hi guys. How's lockdown?
0:37.7	Well I'm loving the lockdown. It's sort of enforced indolence, you know guilt-free inactivity every day of Sunday.
0:47.0	You know, unless I'm frantically busy, I panicked like crazy so Sunday is the only day I just not allowed
0:57.0	to have things so that's okay and it's been amazing spring and weather and I've got the family around me and every time I switched on the news I'm
1:06.0	painfully aware how lucky I am that I don't live in the 12th floor in a two bedroom flat with three
1:12.3	kids and some cunt from the government to say,
1:15.0	you stay at home when I don't.
1:17.0	You know, so, yeah, you know, and also, you know, as Kemp knows, we can do our job where we are.
1:27.0	Like, you know, if I dream up a tune and send posters to the other guys or we made a video in lockdown for a new single which is, you know, surprisingly good.
1:41.0	And so I can sort of continue at the same time without being bothered without being bothered by people wanting to do fucking
1:50.1	podcasts. How do you think the business is coping in this crisis?
1:57.0	Technology has given artists new outlets and new accessibility is that a good thing?
2:02.0	You know if I see another, you know, geyser, star, whatever, hey, here's an acoustic
2:08.0	version of my track, fuck off, you know, and you know, if you wanted to turn into Joan Baez overnight that's your problem mate, but I wrote
2:16.3	for a rock band, you know, and it was it's that and that it just doesn't work. It doesn't work for me.
2:24.0	Yeah but I don't want Brian May giving me guitar, well I don't want guitar lessons from
2:28.5	Brian May but I don't want him being available.
2:33.0	It's that old saw, isn't it?
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