WILL YOUNG - WHO I AM

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🗓️ 11 September 2016

⏱️ 96 minutes

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Summary

Will Young was the first winner of the worldwide Pop Idol franchise and now the owner of 2 BRIT awards from 12 nominations. He has written 3 books and acted in film, television and on stage where he has been nominated for the Laurence Olivier Award for Best Actor in a Musical.

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Chapters:

00:00 Trailer.
02:09 Brian’s thoughts on the episode.
05:27 Brian’s introduction.
06:14 2002, Will enters Pop Idol show with an innate sense of the future.
09:14 Boot camp for how to be a pop star.
10:13 Limited past experience.
12:25 Memories of sharing the joy of the 20 week Pop Idol experience.
15:12 When Will answered back to Simon Cowell, one of the biggest moments of his life.
15:54 Why he did it.
18:43 Is Simon Cowell a bully?
20:52 Touring with others from the show and coming out.
23:27 Publicly coming out back in 2002.
26:20 Being outspoken on LGBT issues for the younger generation.
30:56 Negative and positive decisions following winning Pop Idol.
33:05 Not managing his ego.
33:50 Is it possible to make music if not happy?
34:31 I think you are pretty unlikeable, Lois Evans tells Will.
35:43 How he never has a bad day at work.
37:54 Using the tennis ball technique.
39:20 True connection with the audience is a spiritual feeling.
42:06 Musicians sometimes feel a performance is an out of body experience.
43:00 PTSD, trauma, depersonalization, derealisation and hypervigilance suffering.
51:26 Limited benefit of medication.
53:08 Experiential therapies.
55:41 Will’s other artistic endeavours in film and a play.
59:29 Difference between performing in concert as yourself and acting a part in the theatre.
1:01:04 Why Will feels more vulnerable in the pop world than acting in a play.
1:03:06 How the music industry today compares to 2002.
1:09:08 How Conor McGregor moves astonishes Will and introduced him to Muay Thai.
1:10:51Why Will would like to eradicate the word failure.
1:15:34 Learning how the voice can be a tool to link us to our personalities.
1:19:19 Considering doing a Ted Talk.
1:20:14 What Will would like the next five years to hold for him.
1:21:16 A love for teaching.
1:23:46 Does he still need to have another Number One Album?
1:26:10 Phone call to the 20 year old Will Young.
1:27:41 Best advice ever received.
1:28:35 Relationship with parents.
1:29:50 Advice to the young person who wants to be like him.
1:31:19 Brian’s summing up.

Show Notes:

Will Young on Wikipedia

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Will_Young

Will Young on Twitter

https://twitter.com/willyoung?ref_src=twsrc%5Egoogle%7Ctwcamp%5Eserp%7Ctwgr%5Eauthor

Will Young on Facebook

https://www.facebook.com/willyoung/

Will Young Website

http://willyoung.co.uk/

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0:00.0	Shall we jump in?
0:02.0	Yeah. Okay. All right, I'm doing this, all right?
0:05.0	The context was it was a tiny show that sort of started and really,
0:11.0	however many people watched it on a Saturday night I found out
0:14.7	about it from university and had a premonition that I would win this show.
0:19.7	The winner of Pop Idol is Will.
0:25.0	How do you manage the ego at this point?
0:29.0	I wasn't, I wasn't managing it.
0:31.0	I was a twat basically and desperately unhappy.
0:38.0	Then I got PTSD and got depersonisation and derealisation, which is when your body can't cope with the flooding of emotions from the past.
0:48.0	I couldn't see my face in the mirror and I couldn't recognize places or family.
0:54.9	But the singing and knowing that I had an idea of what being authentic was
1:01.0	and being my true self and I'm not thinking and just being.
1:06.0	I knew I could do it in work.
1:07.6	I knew it was there.
1:08.6	It's about communication and it's about communication from here, you know, not being afraid to be vulnerable, not being afraid to be
1:20.0	not being afraid to be angry, be be happy and just go wow here you go The I'm going to So, I distinctly remember Mr. Will Young because I like the rest of the country was watching
2:17.0	pop idle and we were on the edge of our seats. This is pre- Youtube and we saw these two young men battling it out being voted in every single week and
2:26.7	when will won it was a really big deal and what I found was even more of a big deal was the fact that he went on to have a number one selling album,
2:34.8	that he went on to play Wembley, and he wasn't just some manufactured piece of television
2:40.0	by Simon Cowell.
2:41.0	And it was great to sit down with Will because he talked about the battle that he had with Simon on the show
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