S2E12: Mike Campbell

Rockonteurs with Gary Kemp and Guy Pratt

Rhino UK

Pop, Interviews, Music, Rock

4.8 • 1.2K Ratings

🗓️ 27 March 2022

⏱️ 57 minutes

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This week on Rockonteurs, Gary Kemp and Guy Pratt chat to Mike Campbell. Mike was a long-time member of Tom Petty’s band ‘The Heartbreakers’ and co-wrote many of their hits. He also has a well-established and successful track record writing and recording with Don Henley, having co-written The Boys of Summer and ‘Heart of The Matter’. He is also currently part of the touring band for Fleetwood Mac and has a new album out with his band The Dirty Knobs called ‘External Combustion’. A perfect candidate to join us on the podcast.

Rockonteurs is produced by Ian Callaghan and Ben Jones for Gimme Sugar Productions

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0:00.0	Hello Guy, how are you?
0:02.0	Um, well I'm all right.
0:05.0	Well, I just tested positive.
0:07.0	Have you not mentioned that?
0:08.0	Well, you're positive.
0:10.0	You're always been a positive person though, I've found. I'm a great believer in the power of
0:14.4	positive thoughts and diagnoses. But anyway luckily Mike Campbell I guess
0:21.6	today is not sitting next to you.
0:23.2	No, he's a long way away, so I don't need to wear a mask.
0:26.0	He's probably talking from Los Angeles or somewhere.
0:28.0	I expect so.
0:29.0	And what an amazing list of stuff this guy has done.
0:33.0	Yeah, you know.
0:34.0	But obviously Tom Petty and all of, you know, he's been Tom Petty's right-hand man.
0:38.4	Not just with the heartbreakers, but all his solo stuff.
0:40.4	All the solo stuff. All the solo stuff, yeah, it's really sweet.
0:41.8	It's one of those things where Tom couldn't move without him.
0:44.5	He tried a couple of times, but he's like that old sofa that you just can't put in the attic.
0:48.3	Eddie co-wrote a lot of the big hits, like Refugee, but also he co-wrote one of my favorite all-time songs.
0:55.4	I think it's yours too, right?
0:57.3	It is, it's one of my favorite all-time songs.
0:58.9	Also one of the great early 80s videos as well.
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