S2E2: Andy Bell
Rockonteurs with Gary Kemp and Guy Pratt
Rhino UK
4.8 • 1.2K Ratings
🗓️ 16 January 2022
⏱️ 57 minutes
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Summary
This week on Rockonteurs, Gary Kemp and Guy Pratt chat to the excellent Andy Bell from Erasure.
Erasure were one of the biggest artists of the 80’s and 90’s with 24 Top 40 singles and selling 28 million albums worldwide. Erasure won the Brit Award form Best British Group in 1989. Still gigging despite the complexities of touring in the current climate, Erasure are about to embark on a new US tour and Andy chats to Guy and Gary from his bubble in Miami!
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| 0:30.1 | This week's episode of Rock Conturs was recorded before the passing of Ronnie Specter. |
| 0:37.0 | Hello Guy. |
| 0:38.0 | Hello Guy. |
| 0:39.0 | A little bit envious of this one because we're about to speak to someone who's on an American tour. |
| 0:43.2 | I know I know they're about to start their American tour in January and we just cancelled ours which |
| 0:48.4 | had nothing to do with us personally. |
| 0:50.0 | Pusspone, postponed, postponed, postponed, postponed. Postponed. |
| 0:53.0 | And nothing to do with us personally. |
| 0:55.1 | This was a call from the promoter in America who felt that we were too much of a risk given |
| 1:00.5 | Omicron and the general the general unhygienic nature of the band and |
| 1:06.4 | and so we were quite sad about it obviously because and then and envious that these guys are going to go out so this is we've got Andy Bell on today from Eresia I mean they had a period they had a |
| 1:24.0 | late 80s, early 90s where I think they had something like four or five |
| 1:26.0 | number one consecutive albums. |
| 1:28.0 | You know, I mean, they've sold a lot of records, |
| 1:30.0 | I think the innocence has sold something like |
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