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🗓️ 11 May 2024
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This week on Rockonteurs, Gary and Guy welcome one of the greatest ever songwriters to the podcast, in fact Jimmy Webb is the only artist ever to receive a Grammy Awards for music, lyrics and orchestration. Jimmy has written for Glen Campbell, Linda Ronstadt, the Supremes, Art Garfunkel and even Richard Harris!
From a childhood raised on church music to writing some of the all-time greats, this is a fascinating conversation.
You can see Jimmy Webb live in London at Cadogan Hall on May 28th, Hamburg on June 3rd and Copenhagen on June 5th.
All the dates and ticket details are at https://www.jimmywebb.com/
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0:00.0 | Hello Guy. How are you? I'm good, I've just been seeing you haven't I? You've been over to my studio doing some |
0:06.4 | base on my album. Yeah, I know, but they don't know that, do they? Well they do now. |
0:10.3 | Do you know? They do now. They do now. I've got a funny little thing before we can start. I've been doing sort of |
0:18.4 | Swedish death cleaning at home because I now realize the house I'm in is my last house and so I'm finally getting around to |
0:24.8 | clearing everything out and I found my diary from 1976. Oh yeah and which is yeah and |
0:32.3 | a lot of it's quite emotional because there's big stuff, you know, my dad went and sent me to see. |
0:36.0 | But this is after I've just been given my first bass guitar and I actually had to send this entry to youth the other day. |
0:42.0 | It's so sweet because I got my base on Christmas Eve and on January the 16th, |
0:46.8 | 1976 Glover wants to get a band together in my diary. Not Ian, |
0:53.3 | Martin Glover, that's me and Youth. |
0:55.3 | No, youth, of course. |
0:57.3 | That's amazing. |
0:58.5 | But here's the thing, but the funny thing is, |
1:00.6 | is I'm, and it's just full, my diary, it's full of all's diary entries and just pictures of the who, right? |
1:05.4 | Because I was completely obsessed. |
1:07.6 | But what's interesting is that in the address book section at the back, I've just got addresses of my relatives and my friends and then all of the |
1:15.1 | who. I've got Pete Townsend's address, I've got Roger Dolta's address, I've got John Ent whistles. |
1:20.4 | Now this is before the internet or anything and I'm thinking how did I do that? |
1:25.5 | How did people do things like that? |
1:28.1 | Did you, were you a stalker? |
1:30.1 | Well I don't think so. |
1:32.1 | I did use to go to John Entrissel's house because he actually lived very near my school. |
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