S4E3: Francis Rossi
Rockonteurs with Gary Kemp and Guy Pratt
Rhino UK
4.8 • 1.2K Ratings
🗓️ 4 December 2022
⏱️ 66 minutes
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Summary
This week on Rockonteurs we chat with a man who has been ‘Rockin’ All Over The World’ since the 60s and shows no sign of stopping. Francis Rossi joins Gary and Guy from the road as he continues the latest UK tour for Status Quo. With tales of life on the road, his special relationship with Rick and memories of some of the biggest music events of all time, this is one not to miss.
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| 0:30.0 | Hi Guy. Hello Gary, how are you? Good, you're in Manchester. I am in Manchester. I'm looking |
| 0:38.0 | down on Piccadilly as we speak. I've come up here to see my son at university and that's one thing I love |
| 0:46.7 | about him being at uni here is I love coming to Manchester. |
| 0:50.2 | And last night we had dinner with a great friend and supporter of rock on turs Johnny Mar. |
| 0:56.8 | Who had lovely things said back which is very very nice. So yeah all good here. |
| 1:00.4 | Yeah. Oh that's good. You're so your Piccadilly boulevardier are you? |
| 1:05.3 | I've got the wrong Piccadilly? I don't know it's just Piccadilly, isn't it? |
| 1:08.1 | The thing I've got a late chat I'm staying in this hotel where I've managed to get a late |
| 1:12.2 | check out and I'm meant to be checking out at two, which is an hour after our interview starts. |
| 1:17.0 | We do tend to go over an hour, so hopefully I'm not going to have chambermaids banging down the door. |
| 1:21.0 | So if I do... What would have changed? |
| 1:24.0 | It turns from Rockon turns into a Brian Rick's farce. |
| 1:28.0 | People... |
| 1:29.0 | Actually, funny enough, there's some great stories about people having to bang down your hotel door, |
| 1:33.7 | aren't really? Including one where lovely Barry who works with us now with Nick Mason, |
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