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Rockonteurs with Gary Kemp and Guy Pratt

S2E9: Labi Siffre

Rockonteurs with Gary Kemp and Guy Pratt

Rhino UK

Pop, Interviews, Music, Rock

4.81.2K Ratings

🗓️ 6 March 2022

⏱️ 67 minutes

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Summary

This week on Rockonteurs, Gary and Guy chat to singer, songwriter, musician and poet Labi Siffre.

In a timely and moving conversation, Labi chats openly about his career, his loves and his losses. He’s written some incredible songs and many have been covered or sampled from a range of artists that include Madness and Eminem. Rockonteurs is produced by Ben Jones and Ian Callaghan for Gimme Sugar Productions


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0:00.0

Hi Guy. Hello Gary, how are you? Good thanks, there might be some wind noise that's not coming from me, that's coming from my roof.

0:07.6

Well it is coming from you but it's also coming from your roof. This is being recorded in a time of great storms.

0:13.4

It is, upheaval's in fact.

0:15.9

Yes, geopolitical and meteorological.

0:19.1

Yeah, yeah.

0:20.3

This is quite a good guest to have on because you know he was just much ahead of the game in making albums and music

0:28.4

about struggle and about difficult times and about the environment and about being gay and black.

0:34.0

Yeah, what's very interesting is how he couched everything and it's especially like his big

0:38.9

one something inside so strong which was written about one thing but then adopted as a theme for something else and

0:43.9

became an absolute anthem quite rightly.

0:47.0

Yeah and recently used outside the Grenfell.

0:51.0

That's right.

0:52.0

Yeah. With the choir. This is Labby Sifrey, obviously, and famous for

0:55.3

writing songs like Crying, Laughing, Loving, Lying, which I think is one of the most exquisite, exquisite

1:01.6

songs ever. Because it has a great payoff.

1:04.0

Songs with a payoff are always.

1:06.0

Beautiful and it must be love which most people might know from the man this cover.

1:11.0

But what about his samples? How many people have sampled him?

1:14.3

And it's unbelievable. Well, we'll get that. But let's get him on.

1:17.2

Welcome to the rock on tours.

1:20.8

Okay, guys, I'm ready.

1:22.6

This was great guys.

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