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Rockonteurs with Gary Kemp and Guy Pratt

S7E8: Alan Edwards

Rockonteurs with Gary Kemp and Guy Pratt

Rhino UK

Interviews, Rock, Pop, Music

4.81.1K Ratings

🗓️ 8 June 2024

⏱️ 70 minutes

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Summary

This week on the podcast Gary and Guy chat to the legendary music PR Alan Edwards.

Alan is the man who is responsible for keeping some of the biggest names in music in (and sometimes out) of the papers!

He has worked with an incredible roster of artists from Blondie, The Sex Pistols, the Spice Girls, The Rolling Stones, and David Bowie.

His new book ‘I Was There: Dispatches From a Life in Rock and Roll’ is out now. https://www.amazon.co.uk/Was-There-Dispatches-Life-Rock-ebook/dp/B0CHSHZYPD

 

Don’t miss ‘Nick Mason’s Saucerful of Secrets’ on tour in the UK this June. https://www.thesaucerfulofsecrets.com/

 

Instagram: @rockonteurs @guyprattofficial @garyjkemp @alan_edwards_ @gimmesugarproductions

YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@rockonteurs

Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/Rockonteurs

Produced by Ben Jones for Gimme Sugar Productions



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0:28.0

Hello Gary.

0:33.2

Hello guy so it's our third PR what does PR stand for guy?

0:38.0

That stands for public relations doesn't it? Oh not proportional representation.

0:42.4

Oh no yes it just it did

0:44.3

when I was making an incredibly lame joke this morning on text to you. Yeah yeah

0:49.7

sorry about that it was dreadful. Anyway, so yeah, I thought hang on I thought oh yeah of course it is well we had

0:56.4

Tony King and Tony King of course and Barbara Sharon we have Barbara Sharon as well of

1:01.2

course the great gatekeepers and they've often told us really good stories.

1:05.0

Yeah, they have. Well, they do have the story, but it's an interesting thing that it's kind of...

1:11.0

Because are the good? Are the evil, should we be lauding them,

1:14.6

should we be despising them?

1:15.9

Do you know what I mean?

1:16.9

Who are they, really?

1:17.9

Well, we all need them.

1:20.0

I mean, it's, you know, because it's, it depends on their ideas doesn't it because actually

1:24.5

the great PRs were the great managers really back in the day weren't they?

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