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Rockonteurs with Gary Kemp and Guy Pratt

S9E21: Dylan Jones joins Gary and Guy to talk about an incredible year for music

Rockonteurs with Gary Kemp and Guy Pratt

Rhino UK

Interviews, Rock, Pop, Music

4.81.1K Ratings

🗓️ 14 June 2025

⏱️ 67 minutes

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Summary

This week on Rockonteurs, we’re joined by journalist and author Dylan Jones, here to talk to Gary and Guy about his fascinating new book '1975: The Year the World Forgot'. Spoiler: you’ll never look at that year the same again.


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0:00.0

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1:12.3

If you like listening to Rockonteurs, then we would love you to subscribe to us permanently. So hit subscribe wherever you get your podcasts from. Hello Gary. Hello Guy. You know, I went to

1:18.2

Oxford to see a rockonteur to see one of my dear friends, Sophie Ellis Bexter and Richard Jones,

1:25.2

do do their show at the new theatre in Oxford.

1:28.9

Oh, fantastic. We played there, didn't we?

1:30.7

Yeah, we did. I recognised it when I went in there. Yeah, it's nice.

1:33.3

Sort of like two balconies and very nice old-fashioned. It's on 1920s kind of, I don't know why it's called the new theatre.

1:39.1

I think the outside's new, but the inside's old. I think once it's called new, it's new, isn't it? You can't, I mean, at what point, you know, I don't know.

1:45.4

Anyway, she was absolutely fantastic.

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