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Rockonteurs with Gary Kemp and Guy Pratt

S4E12: Tony King

Rockonteurs with Gary Kemp and Guy Pratt

Rhino UK

Pop, Interviews, Music, Rock

4.81.2K Ratings

🗓️ 12 February 2023

⏱️ 75 minutes

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Summary

This week on Rockonteurs, we welcome legendary music PR Tony King to the show. Tony is “the guy in the room” with the biggest names in music and his new book ‘The Tastemaker’ tells his remarkable story. Join Gary Kemp and Guy Pratt as they talk to Tony about his life with artists from John Lennon, Keith Richards, Elton John, and Freddie Mercury. The book is a must-read!

Rockonteurs is produced by Ben Jones for Gimme Sugar Productions.


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0:32.0

Hello Gary. Hello Guy.

0:33.0

Did you take any note of the Grammys this week?

0:39.0

Not really. I mean, it just seemed, I mean, to be honest, not that I ever did why did you come on you've obviously got something no I just looked I just looked at them I thought Ozzy you know getting a Grammy for you know best rock metal album or whatever it was was with and that you know the best

0:57.3

you know performance metal performance I mean that only that Jeff Beck is on that album is possibly one of the last things that Jeff ever

1:04.5

Yeah, so that's good, but I also I think the Daily Mail gets an award for most ignorant ill-informed headline ever with Unknown Blues Singer wins a Grammy for Bonnie Rate.

1:15.6

Don't they get that award every week though?

1:20.6

Every paragraph. And I thought Harry Harry Stiles, I mean, you know, I felt sorry for him that did you hear about the

1:27.2

turntable?

1:28.2

No.

1:29.2

Oh, they had a big dancer's turntable and they've been rehearsing for weeks to do the turn table is going round and the

1:35.2

dancers are on it going one way and then they stop and they fall off and they get

1:38.2

back on and as they came on for the live TV show the tech decided to turn it the other way.

1:44.0

So they probably changed the phase of the electricity.

1:48.0

So the only time I've ever heard of a turntable going the wrong way was when Jimmy Page announced the devil or something.

1:54.6

Yeah, I buried Paul. But also, when you go into hot water for something you said, didn't he?

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