S1E5: Trevor Horn

Rockonteurs with Gary Kemp and Guy Pratt

Rhino UK

Interviews, Rock, Pop, Music

4.8 • 1.1K Ratings

🗓️ 3 October 2020

⏱️ 39 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 5 Gary Kemp and Guy Pratt speak to Trevor Horn.

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0:00.0	Is it rolling? Okay, let's go.
0:02.0	Hello and welcome to the Rock On Tours podcast. I am Gary Kemp.
0:05.0	And I'm Guy Pratt. They said it wouldn't happen, but here we are.
0:08.0	But each week we bribe a friend of ours for an hour of their time to chew the cut on life of the fast lane of music.
0:13.6	Yeah, we've been mates for a long time haven't we?
0:15.9	We now playing a band together.
0:17.2	Would you play in a band together?
0:18.2	But Nick Mason is also with the secrets and this episode we are speaking to one of the
0:21.9	finest pop producers in the world.
0:25.2	Three Brit Awards, a Grammy Award winner, Ivan Novello Award, blah, blah, blah.
0:29.1	And a man whose production skills and musical influence earned him the title, The Man Who Invented The 80s.
0:34.8	But I thought that was me. No, Trevor Horn.
0:37.8	Trevor. How are you Trevor? I'm fine. Nice to be here.
0:41.0	We go back quite a long way. I think you you saved my ass back in 1982 when you remixed
0:47.7	Instinction. Instinction. Yeah, I always I was like to your band I really liked muscle bound and I was like to go and I really like muscle bound and which was the
0:55.8	in goses the one that had the syndrom's on the lindra not not the the chart
1:01.9	number one really number one yeah first simms kit record I really liked that like the production
1:07.4	it too and I remember we had a we had a difficult second album and and the third
1:11.8	single had not done as well as any of us had hoped and we knew there
1:16.6	was something here there was gold to be mined and not that was the next album and and Trevor kindly said look I wouldn't want to remix this I like to mostly
1:27.3	re-record it which which we did with Anne Dudley didn't we? Yeah we kind of we gave it the treatment
1:32.1	it was really funny because I don't if I ever told you,
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