S7E6: Brian Auger

Rockonteurs with Gary Kemp and Guy Pratt

Rhino UK

Interviews, Rock, Pop, Music

4.8 • 1.1K Ratings

🗓️ 18 May 2024

⏱️ 67 minutes

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Summary

This brilliant Brian Auger joins Gary and Guy this week for another must listen episode of Rockonteurs.

Brian is a total gent and was there from the earliest days of Rock and Roll as the go to organ and piano guy.

He formed The Steampacket with Long John Baldry, Julie Driscoll, and Rod Stewart in 1965. His influence is felt far and wide in the business and artists like Elton John and Jools Holland cite Brian as a massive influence.

He’s funny, charming, and hugely entertaining and his music is well worth a listen.

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0:00.0	Hello Guy I've been terribly bitten by midges.
0:04.4	What? Have you really?
0:06.4	Why? What happened? Who was he?
0:09.6	Which?
0:11.6	You're? Midger and mid-er, who else?
0:13.8	Mitch's, but yeah, mid-'s minder.
0:16.8	No, we have terrible midges down here on the South Downs.
0:20.8	You know?
0:21.2	It's a hard life, isn't it, really? I'm in Central London,
0:25.0	mate. I'm in Central London. Let it be known. Not dodging midges down here, we're dodging
0:30.4	other things, I tell you. You know what? You know what? You know what was...
0:34.3	Go on I've got something I just wanted to mention which is...
0:37.2	No go on. We spoke about Pyramania the other day with Joe and what we didn't mention I forgot to mention was that John Congus worked on the album you know John Congus don't you?
0:49.2	I know the name I can't you know.
0:51.2	Tocolosha man he's gonna step on you again you don't know those
0:55.2	songs oh my oh wow right hang on you know early 70s early 70s early 70s kind of it's
1:02.3	not northern soul is it's no no no its kind of, it's not Northern soul, is it?
1:03.4	No, no, no, no, it's kind of like a weird Afrobeat, right?
1:07.6	The early Afrobeat.
1:08.6	Yeah, guess, yeah.
1:09.6	And I mean, listen, maybe it's because I'm slightly older than you just slightly that I bought those singles
1:15.8	They were big oh yeah, I've got to say that completely escaped me. I was probably still buying monster mash
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