S4E9: Joan Armatrading
Rockonteurs with Gary Kemp and Guy Pratt
Rhino UK
4.8 • 1.2K Ratings
🗓️ 22 January 2023
⏱️ 68 minutes
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Summary
This week on Rockonteurs, Gary and Guy are joined by an incredible artist with a career spanning over 50 years and 20 studio albums. We are delighted to welcome Ivor Novello Award-winning Joan Armatrading to the podcast to talk about her remarkable career. From the musical Hair to her debut album ‘Whatever’s for Us’ in 1972, to A&M Records, smash hits of the 70s and 80s and working with the likes of super producers like Glyn Johns and Gus Dudgeon, this is one not to miss.
Rockonteurs is produced by Ben Jones for Gimme Sugar Productions.
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| 0:37.0 | Hello Guy, so the first UK singer-songwriter female to have international success? |
| 0:46.0 | Yes, she's actually, she kicked down a lot of doors, didn't she? |
| 0:50.0 | Yep. |
| 0:51.0 | Not, I don't mean in a sort of the rock and roll sense. |
| 0:54.7 | But I mean, she's a trail blaze, a trailblazer. |
| 0:57.4 | 50 years in music. |
| 0:59.1 | 50 years of music. |
| 1:00.2 | And I don't think I kind of appreciated that you know that that first album was |
| 1:05.6 | 1972 with Gus Dudgeon. That's right and it was Gus Dudgeon then on to then |
| 1:11.2 | a guy bought I bought the Joan Armour trading album oh what a sorry |
| 1:14.8 | spoiler I bought that album you know when I was 14 15 and I wasn't really buying those |
| 1:20.3 | sort of records because you remember the first time you heard love and affection, right? |
| 1:24.1 | Yeah, of course. Actually, I do. I mean it was so powerful on the radio. I was in a pub in |
| 1:29.6 | Potter's Bar and I'd just been rehearsing with what eventually became Spannal Ballet right so this is late |
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