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Rockonteurs with Gary Kemp and Guy Pratt

S2E14: Jim Kerr

Rockonteurs with Gary Kemp and Guy Pratt

Rhino UK

Pop, Interviews, Music, Rock

4.81.2K Ratings

🗓️ 9 April 2022

⏱️ 79 minutes

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Summary

This week on Rockonteurs we welcome Jim Kerr from Simple Minds. Chatting to Gary and Guy about his incredible career and those decade defining hits! Settle in for some fascinating musical conversation. This is the very reason we make this show, to hear the stories behind the music we all love!

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


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0:32.0

Hello Gary. Hi Guy, how are you? I'm very well. I'm very much looking forward to this. Are you?

0:37.0

Of course I can see something in your hand.

0:40.0

I've got to confess when we were researching this because as you know Gary and I

0:45.4

fastidiously researched all of our all of our interviews I'm up in my music

0:49.4

room and I was listening to going back to these albums and I was dancing around and I had to get the bass out because Nice, nice!

1:07.0

and of course.

1:10.0

And of course.

1:11.0

And of course. Well thanks for coming all this way guy. We've got your phone number, haven't we?

1:25.0

We'll let you know. So they're from New Gold Dream, right?

1:30.0

They are. What tracks? What tracks? Big Sleep and Gl and glittering prize and who played the original

1:34.5

Derek Forbes who I've got to say is one of my absolute absolute heroes of the

1:39.2

yet he was such an influential player but it's not him we got I would do a big

1:44.5

build up here and it's not well thank God she's had enough bass players on this

1:48.6

show it's the main man himself it's the it's a lead singer of simple minds. It is simple minds him and Charlie anyway

1:55.9

Yeah, Jim Kerr who I understand

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