S4E11: Belinda Carlisle
Rockonteurs with Gary Kemp and Guy Pratt
Rhino UK
4.8 • 1.2K Ratings
🗓️ 5 February 2023
⏱️ 56 minutes
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Summary
This week on Rockonteurs, Gary Kemp and Guy Pratt chat with the former lead vocalist of the most successful all-female rock band of all time and a hugely successful solo artist too. We are delighted to welcome Belinda Carlisle to the podcast. From Punk to Pop, we discuss the Go-Go’s, their influences, and their success culminating with the induction into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 2021. Plus, we look back at those huge feel-good pop anthems of the 80s.
Rockonteurs is produced by Ben Jones for Gimme Sugar Productions.
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| 0:32.0 | Hi Guy. |
| 0:33.0 | Hello Gary, how are you? |
| 0:35.0 | Yeah, I'm good thanks. I'm we're really thrilled because one of our best friends has got an Oscar nomination. |
| 0:41.0 | Yes. And Bill Nye. |
| 0:43.0 | Bill Nye, yeah, who's been a great friend to both of us and who we met on one of the first things we did together, which is when we both worked on the film still crazy. |
| 0:52.0 | That's right. So I met Bill in 1998. We were |
| 0:56.4 | doing some music for the film. This is a film called Still Crazy about a band called |
| 1:01.3 | Strange Fruit. |
| 1:03.5 | It's starring Bill as the lead singer, there was Jimmy Nails in it, Tim Spool, |
| 1:09.6 | All the lives, all the lives. |
| 1:11.6 | And it's a band called Strange Fruit that get back together 20 years |
| 1:15.0 | after they've split up and it's all that entails and there's this do remember there's a |
| 1:19.2 | scene in it where the the guitarist won't do it and then he finally secumes and it's played by Bruce Robinson. |
| 1:25.8 | There's Bruce Robinson exactly who's the sort of Sid Barrett character. |
| 1:28.6 | Another friend of yours? |
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