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Rockonteurs with Gary Kemp and Guy Pratt

S2E17: David Arnold

Rockonteurs with Gary Kemp and Guy Pratt

Rhino UK

Pop, Interviews, Music, Rock

4.81.2K Ratings

🗓️ 30 April 2022

⏱️ 76 minutes

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Summary

This week Gary and Guy take a moment out from their tour with Nick Mason’s Saucerful of Secrets to chat to Grammy Award winning composer David Arnold. In a fascinating conversation that goes from composing 5 Bond scores to meeting John Barry, getting George Martin’s support through to working with David McAlmont and recording ‘Play Dead’ with Bjork. Rockonteurs is produced by Ben Jones and Ian Callaghan for Gimme Sugar Productions

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0:00.0

Hi Gary.

0:01.0

Hello Guy.

0:02.6

We are on the road and still doing rock on tours.

0:05.5

We just give and we give and we give, thank you.

0:09.4

But we are going to try and pull it together.

0:10.6

We've got dates in the diary, we've got Sundays the diary we've got some mornings off and

0:14.2

we're gonna we've got a lot of good names that are queuing up they are now yeah

0:18.3

it's extraordinary I mean now it's really you know after sort of years of being

0:21.6

locked at home and now they're throwing themselves at us.

0:25.5

Now we're doing six shows a week.

0:27.6

They're in a holding pattern above our heads.

0:31.3

Just wait for there, rock gods. So we have David Arnold today. David

0:38.9

is a wonderful friend of mine, wonderful musician, composer,

0:43.2

composer, famous for his Bond music.

0:46.3

He's done so many great films.

0:48.1

He's won Grammys and Emmys.

0:49.6

I mean, I haven't said enough guy.

0:51.8

Fill the audience in on David.

0:53.0

He was part of, there was a whole generational shift that happened in the 90s,

0:57.0

where I think there was once again this sort of confluence of things to do like,

1:01.0

like film, where, especially with dance music and where it all kind of fitted back into that John Barry kind of world and someone like David really utilized that and sort of brought this whole idea of Bond music bang up to date.

1:15.0

But just to name some of the films, you know, Stargate Independence Day,

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