S1E56: Pat Leonard
Rockonteurs with Gary Kemp and Guy Pratt
Rhino UK
4.8 • 1.2K Ratings
🗓️ 9 October 2021
⏱️ 68 minutes
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Summary
This week on Rockonteurs we are delighted to welcome the hugely talented songwriter and producer Patrick Leonard to the show.
Pat is best known as a longtime collaborator with Madonna having worked on albums such as ‘True Blue’, ‘Who’s That Girl’ and ‘Like A Prayer’.
But his musical credentials stretch far wider and include Michael Jackson, Pink Floyd, Jeff Beck, David Gilmour, Elton John and Leonard Cohen to name but a few.
As you can imagine, the stories come thick and fast and it’s one amazing listen.
Rockonteurs is produced by Ben Jones for Gimme Sugar Limited
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| 0:32.0 | Hey Guy. |
| 0:33.0 | Hi Gary, right so good one this week. It's Patrick Leonard who's my dear old |
| 0:39.1 | Powell in fact who is actually out the three longest work relationship I have he's number two. |
| 0:45.0 | Wow, wow, I must be I must be number one shortly. |
| 0:48.0 | Our relationship stopped working a long time ago, darling. |
| 0:52.0 | But let to explain to people who this man is stop working a long time ago, Dalek. |
| 0:53.0 | But let to explain to people who this man is, |
| 0:55.1 | because he's our second producer, he's a guy behind the scenes, |
| 0:57.6 | he's a major writer. |
| 0:58.8 | He was really the guy who created the Madonna, the mature Donna. The mature. the |
| 1:03.2 | mature Donna. The mature, yeah, he did the kind of grown up. |
| 1:06.7 | He, although he started with True Blue, but then yeah, |
| 1:10.9 | like a prayer was the album where Madonna grew up but he's done so much before that I mean he's a really renowned keyboard players I mean |
| 1:22.8 | You know with the jacks he talked with the Jackson's told Madonna Frank Zappa that I want to talk to him about. I've never really talked to him about that. |
| 1:24.0 | But he's produced Roger Waters and Elton John, Leonard Cohen in his later years, |
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