S1E61: Arthur Baker
Rockonteurs with Gary Kemp and Guy Pratt
Rhino UK
4.8 • 1.2K Ratings
🗓️ 21 November 2021
⏱️ 58 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | Hello Gary how are you I'm very well looking forward to today one of the great instigators |
| 0:06.4 | catalysts of crossover music yeah yeah he's it's another producer for us to have on but you say that like it's a bad thing |
| 0:15.0 | No, I know he's a kind of producer artist I mean I remember Arthur Baker himself was virtually the only person in that new order video confusion yeah that's right as |
| 0:26.2 | the producer I mean he except you occasionally see Bernard and Peter both playing the wrong |
| 0:30.9 | instruments I thought you've been playing the wrong instrument for most of your career, haven't you? |
| 0:36.0 | Oh, really should have been that... |
| 0:38.0 | That was unnecessary. |
| 0:39.0 | Yucalayle player you set out to be. |
| 0:42.0 | No, listen, let's just sort of sum him up really and for people who maybe |
| 0:46.1 | aren't so familiar Africa Bumbata Planet Rock that coming together of craft work and |
| 0:56.6 | Electro basically invented Electro, which is a kind of branch of hip-hop. And then, actually the massive one is actually Walking on Sunshine, isn't it? |
| 1:00.6 | Rockers' Revenge. |
| 1:01.6 | Yeah, that version as opposed to the other song |
| 1:04.0 | yeah which is it's fun which had only been a year or two before |
| 1:08.0 | Katrina in the waves no Eddie Grant there are three songs called Walking on Sunshine. |
| 1:14.0 | There's probably hundreds of songs called Walking on Sunshine. |
| 1:17.0 | When Let's Dance went to number one, |
| 1:19.0 | I remember thinking, oh my God, I can't believe it. |
| 1:21.0 | It took Bowie to come up with a song called Let's Dance. |
| 1:23.0 | Turned out that was the eighth record called Let's Dance to Get Number One. |
| 1:27.0 | Wow, wow, I've now had a great idea for a song, Walk on Sunshine. It was the B-side he's not worth it. |
| 1:39.0 | But you know he's worked with Bruce Springsteen. |
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