S1E4: Phil Manzanera

Rockonteurs with Gary Kemp and Guy Pratt

Rhino UK

Interviews, Rock, Pop, Music

4.8 • 1.1K Ratings

🗓️ 26 September 2020

⏱️ 43 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 4 Gary Kemp and Guy Pratt speak to Phil Manzanera.

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0:30.0	Hello and I'm Gary Kemp and this week on the show on Turs podcast I am Guy Pratt and I'm Gary Kemp and this week on the show we're talking to a legendary guitarist, a producer, a member of Roxy Music and a good friend.
0:45.9	Phil Mantonura. Nice to be here.
0:47.6	Your smiling faces?
0:49.6	I know you well, but I'm still thrilled, but I know the bloke from Roxy Music and that wonderful
0:56.9	inside sleeve from the album picture that had you with the fly glasses on the
1:03.0	with the bow guys yeah and the famous
1:04.7	Hagstrom firebird no no I had the firebird
1:07.8	where did all those guitars come from I think the Hagstrom was could have been Paul's I can't remember bizarrely
1:15.7	Paul Thompson.
1:17.7	Well I'm not I can't remember I have to Google it to find out who owned what. Obviously, Eino's snake guitar was his own snake
1:26.4	guitar, which is about a tenor from somewhere in Shepherds Bush. And the Les Paul was the John Porter's Les Paul, the bass player, who that I borrowed on a lot of, to use on a lot of the albums.
1:39.0	Yeah.
1:40.0	And where did the Firebird come from?
1:41.0	How did you find it?
1:42.0	The guy who designed? Ray Dietrich
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