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🗓️ 16 March 2025
⏱️ 63 minutes
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This week on the Rockonteurs podcast we welcome Nik Kershaw to the show. Nik chats to Guy Pratt and Gary Kemp about his early influences growing up in Ipswich, his meteoric rise in the 80s, his incredible barnet, playing Live Aid, and his continued delight to be touring with his own shows and the much-loved 80s revival festivals.
Find out more about Nik and his upcoming music and live dates here: https://www.nikkershaw.net/
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Listen to the podcast and watch some of our latest episodes, including the Bryan Ferry show on our Rockonteurs YouTube channel.
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0:00.0 | If you like listening to Rockonteurs, then we would love you to subscribe to us permanently. |
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0:09.3 | Hello Gary. |
0:10.3 | Hello, Guy. How are you? |
0:11.4 | I'm all right. How's your week been? |
0:13.6 | Well, good. I've been buzzing about Brian Ferry, to be honest. |
0:16.3 | I mean, that went down really well and it was so nice to get such a but I mean we've had lots of icons on |
0:21.6 | haven't we but I think you know for us for us it was it was no that was amazing and as but it's |
0:26.9 | again it's the old thing of no matter how long you know someone how well you know then the idea |
0:31.8 | that you know we always get stuff that we don't know on this I mean I'm still reading from that |
0:37.2 | childhood thing. |
0:37.7 | I just love the idea, this sweet idea of the boy, Brian Ferry, |
0:42.5 | thinking, I'm sure this is the order that Bill Haley likes his songs in best. |
0:49.1 | Yes. |
0:50.3 | And then when he, you know, yes, he's found a like, see you later, you know, allegation. |
0:54.4 | And then, but just the fact that the first time Brian Ferry's name was ever heard on the radio, |
1:01.8 | it was read out by Beryl Reid. |
1:04.2 | I know, I know, isn't that wonderful? |
1:07.0 | And we both had good feedback. |
1:08.4 | I've got a text from Phil, and so did you. |
1:11.6 | I said, yeah. I know. Actually, it's Phil Manzanera. I mean, praise indeed. No one knows how Brian |
1:16.8 | interviews better than Phil. Yeah. I just wanted to mention, because someone died this week, |
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