S9E5: Gary and Guy welcome Mike Scott to Rockonteurs

Rockonteurs with Gary Kemp and Guy Pratt

Rhino UK

Interviews, Rock, Pop, Music

4.8 • 1.1K Ratings

🗓️ 23 February 2025

⏱️ 55 minutes

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Summary

This week we welcome Mike Scott to the podcast.

Mike is ‘The Waterboys’ and talks to Guy Pratt and Gary Kemp about his career, his influences, and the latest record called ‘Life, Death, and Dennis Hopper’. It’s a brilliant collection of songs that feature collaborations with Fiona Apple, Bruce Springsteen, and more. The album is out on April 4th.

Find out more here: https://sunrecords.lnk.to/LifeDeathDennisHopper

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0:00.0	Hello, Gary. Hello, Guy. So you were saying that interesting fact to do with Marianne.
0:07.4	Oh, yeah, because we were talking about Marion Faith for a couple of weeks ago.
0:09.5	We were, yeah. Yeah, what were we talking about? Oh, yeah, because we had that clip of Marianne talking about the party that she met Mick Jaggerat.
0:19.2	And I looked a little bit deeper into whose party that was.
0:21.4	She did mention, she said it's Adrian poster. And I imagined a guy called Adrian. And it's not.
0:27.6	It's the actress Adrian poster, spelled P-O-S-T-A. And it's Adrienne. And she had a single out of the the time and the party was for the single.
0:39.6	I heard, no, this is the thing, this is where we get into simpler times stuff.
0:44.6	It was her 16th birthday party.
0:48.1	Right.
0:48.4	She did have a single out.
0:49.4	And she was managed by Andrew Lugel.
0:50.7	She was married by, yeah.
0:51.6	But so she was being managed at the age of 15.
0:55.0	So, I just seems a bit...
0:57.0	You could leave school at 15 in those days, probably.
0:59.0	Well, that's true.
1:00.0	My dad went, left school at 15, was working.
1:02.0	We're 14, I think my dad left school.
1:04.0	Yeah.
1:05.0	You get married at 11.
1:06.0	But, so imagine this party.
1:09.0	You've got Marianne sitting on the radiator.
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