S4E15: Paul Simonon

Rockonteurs with Gary Kemp and Guy Pratt

Rhino UK

Pop, Interviews, Music, Rock

4.8 • 1.2K Ratings

🗓️ 5 March 2023

⏱️ 58 minutes

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Summary

This week on Rockonteurs, Gary and Guy are joined in the studio, face to face with an artist who changed both their lives, bass player in The Clash, Paul Simonon.

Gary and Guy discuss the game-changing arrival of The Clash on the scene in 1976, Paul’s work with Damon Albarn and Gorillaz through to his latest album ‘Can We Do Tomorrow Another Day’ that he recorded with Galen Ayers and is out in May. Expect stories that feature The Ramones, The Stranglers, The Sex Pistols.

Rockonteurs is produced by Ben Jones for Gimme Sugar Productions.

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0:32.0	Hi Guy.
0:32.8	Hi Gary.
0:33.8	We're together.
0:34.8	We are saying this is weird, isn't it?
0:36.3	I can touch you.
0:38.0	I know.
0:39.0	We're not on Zoom.
0:40.0	We're in real life.
0:41.0	Yeah.
0:42.0	And I think this is quite nice and this was called by Paul.
0:45.2	Which is that's what's so nice he insisted on being in the room.
0:48.3	Yeah. Where it happens? We made it work. So my dog's not going to be barking.
0:51.8	The Amazon guy is going to be ringing on the doorbell.
0:54.0	Well, we'll see about that. But this is a fabulous one today, because it's someone we both know. I mean, I've known Paul for many years back when I used to do such things. He's someone I've propped up many a bar with and a more fabulous sort of a companion.
1:08.4	Well that's the wrong word.
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