S1E3: Chris Difford

Rockonteurs with Gary Kemp and Guy Pratt

Rhino UK

Interviews, Rock, Pop, Music

4.8 • 1.1K Ratings

🗓️ 19 September 2020

⏱️ 35 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 3 Gary Kemp and Guy Pratt speak to Chris Difford, lyricist and founding member of Squeeze.

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0:00.0	Hello and I am Guy Pratt.
0:04.0	Hello and welcome to the Rock On Tours podcast.
0:07.0	I am Gary Ken.
0:08.0	And I am Guy Pratt.
0:10.0	All over the world, musicians are sat around with time on their hands and stories worth sharing.
0:14.0	So even in lockdown, we are finding a way to make our little series happen.
0:18.0	At this week on the show, we're talking to one of the UK's finest songwriters, multiple Ivan Novello Award winner, Grammy-nominated,
0:26.0	Storyteller, Songwriting Coach, an all-round great bloke.
0:31.0	Mr. Chris, hello, how are you?
0:33.5	Where are you?
0:34.4	What the hell?
0:35.7	I'm at home in the village of Furl in East Sussex,
0:40.8	and I can't tell you how extraordinary experience it is being at home first of all and not being on tour.
0:49.0	So I'm slowly getting used to being in family life which is bizarre.
0:54.4	What are you doing? What's your day?
0:56.2	Well the day is, it's repetitive let's say.
1:01.8	You know I get up about seven and the first thing I do is just sort of meander into morning. then meander into afternoon and then meander into
1:16.2	evening.
1:17.2	That sounds like a lyric already.
1:19.2	And it sounds like a Chris Difford lyric.
1:22.4	Can I just say one thing because people can't see this right that we are we do have a zoom thing going on that as all of us have sort of slowly fallen apart as the lockdown has dragged on. Chris still has the top button
1:35.4	done up on his Fred Perry like a proper mod and I said it's amazing. I've just got
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