S8E3: Norman Perry

Rockonteurs with Gary Kemp and Guy Pratt

Rhino UK

Interviews, Rock, Pop, Music

4.8 • 1.1K Ratings

🗓️ 21 September 2024

⏱️ 62 minutes

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Summary

This week on Rockonteurs we take a fascinating look behind the business of music.

Music merchandise is a multi-million-dollar empire, and everyone has their favourite band T-shirt, but where did it start and how does it impact the bands and artist estates that it benefits. Norman Perry runs one of the most successful music merchandise companies Perryscope and he protects the image and merchandise rights for artists like Pink Floyd, AC/DC, Genesis, Tom Petty, David Bowie, and Nick Mason’s Saucerful of Secrets to name but a few.

Norman has worked with so many of the greatest artists of all time and in this episode, he shares tales of a life behind the scenes working with the great and godlike and how he helps to keep the fan connection alive for so many of our favourite acts.

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0:00.0	Hello Guy straight from work again.
0:02.8	Straight from work again.
0:03.8	So still hard at it and actually I have to start this week if I may with an
0:09.4	unmitigated apology to one Ben Worsley, the guitar. an
0:15.0	mitigated pittigated to one Ben Worsley, the guitarist, David Giffel's band,
0:17.0	who you were quite right when you said, Gary,
0:19.0	he said, I met him, he was a kid.
0:20.0	And I said, no, no, he's in his 40s.
0:22.0	He's not, he was horrified when he heard
0:23.8	last week he's 32 and I I figure I thought I thought he did look rather young
0:30.4	but I thought something to do that he's involved in acupuncture he has a
0:33.4	pod car so it's giving him a good skin is it that's what I thought he is actually
0:37.6	only 32 is still older than most policemen
0:42.0	that's a good point.
0:43.0	In fact a lot of them have taken early retirement by then.
0:46.0	Anyway, well, talking about policemen, I just thought we'd talk briefly about that on-stage fight with Jane's addiction.
0:53.4	Oh, okay.
0:55.4	Perry Farrell, the singer. I don't, I'm not a big Jane's addiction man, but I have read
1:00.4	you know Perry Farrell the singer and I have seen the video he started on Dave Navarro the guitar
1:07.2	Dave Navarro yeah for being too loud all I've seen I haven't if I haven't swatted up on this but the stuff I've seen was yeah there was said there was a post from Perry's wife or girlfriend whatever saying that's what it was
1:19.2	Although I don't know how much of an of an argument that is these days because there's monitoring there's in ears there's you know and it's like not like I mean they you know what bands are like it's not like they suddenly get louder but you know it did make me think
1:35.1	about on-stage fights I wondered if you'd you'd ever been involved in an on-stage
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