S9E4: Gary and Guy welcome Billy Duffy to the podcast

Rockonteurs with Gary Kemp and Guy Pratt

Rhino UK

Interviews, Rock, Pop, Music

4.8 • 1.1K Ratings

🗓️ 16 February 2025

⏱️ 73 minutes

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Summary

Make yourself comfortable and settle in for another wonderful episode of Rockonteurs.

This week we welcome an avid listener of the podcast to the show, the wonderful Billy Duffy. Billy is armed with some incredible stories of growing up in Manchester and falling in love with music from the likes of Thin Lizzy, The Stooges, AC/DC and, of course, The Sex Pistols. He talks to Guy Pratt and Gary Kemp about how those bands influenced his group The Cult, plus he shares the most incredible story of a young Steven Morrissey!

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0:00.0	Hello, Gary.
0:01.1	Okay.
0:01.6	Good one today.
0:02.4	Yeah, good one.
0:03.1	A guy who, I'm sure, is going to have so much to say.
0:07.1	So much.
0:07.6	I've already, actually, I've sent a message this morning to a dear old rockonteur who's very closely connected,
0:15.9	who has sent me a spiel of stuff to mention to him.
0:19.3	Yeah, yeah.
0:19.8	I mean, this is a guy who started in, you know, familiar, you know, territory up in
0:25.4	Manchester in the mid-70s with certain gigs that have become infamous and is now kind of one of the
0:32.2	bands ruling America. Yeah, he ticks so many rock-onteurs boxes.
0:40.6	So no time today for quick stories between you and me.
0:41.3	Nice it is.
0:45.4	And because I think this will be a long one, so let's get him on.
0:46.6	Welcome to the Rock Ontours.
0:50.1	Okay, guys, I'm ready.
0:53.1	You know this thing about the 10,000 hours of experience?
0:56.4	When we recorded Arnold Lane, we'd done about 50 hours.
0:58.6	I love the fact he's dancing to it naked.
0:59.8	Like, it's so hedonistic.
1:01.1	It's so liberating.
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