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Rockonteurs with Gary Kemp and Guy Pratt

Gary Kemp and Guy Pratt

Rockonteurs is a podcast all about the real stories behind real music.Presented by Spandau Ballet’s Gary Kemp, who wrote and performed megahits like ‘Gold’ and ‘True’, and Guy Pratt, a bass player who shaped songs for the likes of Madonna and Pink Floyd, you’ll hear exclusive stories of life on the road, in the studio and what really happened behind the scenes from artists who wrote, performed and produced the some of the biggest classic rock and pop tracks of all time.Guests include Sir Bob Geldof,

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S8E11: Steve Jones

Rockonteurs with Gary Kemp and Guy Pratt ·

2024/11/10

This week on Rockonteurs we welcome the wonderful Steve Jones to the podcast. Another Pistol and a genuine ‘Guitar Hero! Fresh from some amazing shows with Glen, Cookie, and Frank Carter – Steve talks to Guy and Gary about how those shows came together and hints at more down the line!Plus, we get some incredible tales of life at the forefront of punk and even how Jonesy ended up putting a jamming session together with Bob Dylan. That sound you hear is Gary fan boying all over Steve!Listen to the

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1:03:15

S8E10: Pete Townshend & Rachel Fuller

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2024/11/03

This week on Rockonteurs we welcome Pete Townshend and Rachel Fuller to the podcast to discuss their new musical and literary collaboration, The Seeker. Authored and composed by Rachel with additional music and lyrics by Pete, it brings to life the Hesse novel Siddhartha in a brand new and beautiful way. You can see it live in London at a one-off show on November 6that the Theatre Royal on Drury Lane. Tickets atwww.theseekermusic.comPlus, Pete shares some incredible and never before heard stories

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S8E9: Best Of... Legends

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2024/10/26

Guy is on his way to LA on tour with David Gilmour and Gary is enjoying a little break this week, so we’ve compiled a few of our favourite ‘Legendary’ guests for a special ‘Best Of’ this week.With the new Bruce Springsteen film ‘Road Diary’ coming out this week on Disney +, we hear from his right-hand man Steven Van Zandt. Plus, newly inducted into the Rock n Roll Hall of Fame, Peter Frampton talks to Guy and Gary about his incredible live album ‘Frampton Comes Alive’. Also, on the podcast this

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S8E7: Norman Cook aka Fatboy Slim

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2024/10/19

This week on the podcast we welcome the mighty Norman Cook to Rockonteurs. Norman is a multi-talented artist, producer, and world-famous DJ who started out as a bass player in the Housemartins. In this fascinating conversation with Guy and Gary he discusses how a certain Spandau Ballet were a huge catalyst in his early love of music and how that career evolved from being in a band to becoming the biggest DJ in the world. We dive into the world of DJ’ing, music videos and beach parties! Norman is a

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1:20:29

S8E6: Matt Johnson

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2024/10/12

This week on Rockonteurs we welcome Matt Johnson to the podcast. Matt grew up in a pub that played host to the Faces, The Kinks and even David Essex. Matt started ‘The The’ in 1979 and as part of the band worked with a wonderful rotating cast of fellow artists such as Johnny Marr, Gail Ann Dorsey, and Sinèad O’Connor to name but a few.Matt’s new album ‘Ensoulment’ is out now on Cineola / earMusic.The The are currently touring North America.Find out more atwww.thethe.com/You can also watch some of

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S8E4: Gilbert O'Sullivan

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2024/09/28

This week on Rockonteurs we welcome singer, songwriter Gilbert O’Sullivan to the podcast. Gilbert (real name Ray) has been making music since the early 1970s and has enjoyed some huge hits here and in the US with tracks like ‘Alone Again (Naturally)’, ‘Clair’ and ‘Get Down’. He is incredibly prolific and never stops writing, recording and touring. His new album ‘Songbook’ is out now and is a beautiful collection of newly recorded versions of his own catalogue.You can also watch the entire interview

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S8E3: Norman Perry

Rockonteurs with Gary Kemp and Guy Pratt ·

2024/09/21

This week on Rockonteurs we take a fascinating look behind the business of music.Music merchandise is a multi-million-dollar empire, and everyone has their favourite band T-shirt, but where did it start and how does it impact the bands and artist estates that it benefits. Norman Perry runs one of the most successful music merchandise companies Perryscope and he protects the image and merchandise rights for artists like Pink Floyd, AC/DC, Genesis, Tom Petty, David Bowie, and Nick Mason’s Saucerful of

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1:10:31

S8E2: Paul Cook

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2024/09/14

This week on the podcast, we welcome Sex Pistols drummer Paul Cook to the show. Paul is a fabulous raconteur, and he has some incredible stories from a moment in music history when one band and one album created a music genre that changed everything. He chats to Gary Kemp and Guy Pratt about his journey, his influences, and how the Sex Pistols exploded onto the scene. With tales of life on the road with the Pistols, that infamous Grundy TV appearance that was never meant to happen, and how it all

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1:01:55

Best of…90s and 00s

Rockonteurs with Gary Kemp and Guy Pratt ·

2024/07/20

This week Gary and Guy are in Italy as their European tour with ‘Nick Mason’s Saucerful of Secrets’ continues and they are playing some stunning venues. They share tales of a special sightseeing trip to Charlie Chaplin’s house, and we hear how the tour is going….are they even still on speaking terms? This week we share some clips from some of our favourite artists like Tim Burgess, Serge from Kasabian, Sharleen Spiteri and Sophie Ellis-Bextor.We’ll be back with a brand-new episode very

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1:02:24

Best Of... Drummers

Rockonteurs with Gary Kemp and Guy Pratt ·

2024/07/13

This week Gary and Guy are in Munich as their European tour with ‘Nick Mason’s Saucerful of Secrets’ continues. They share tales of their jaunt round Germany and seeing as they are touring with one of the greatest drummers of all time, we thought we’d revisit some of those iconic guests such as Mick Fleetwood, Stewart Copeland, KenneyJonesand the guv’nor, Nick Mason!We’ll be back with a brand-new episode very soon!Instagram: @rockonteurs @guyprattofficial @garyjkemp @saucerfulofsecretsofficial

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1:10:07

Best Of... Icons of the 80s 2

Rockonteurs with Gary Kemp and Guy Pratt ·

2024/07/06

This week Gary and Guy continue their tour around Europe with ‘Nick Mason’s Saucerful of Secrets’ and share some of the tales from a life on the road and how touring has changed for them both over the years. Guy shares a hilarious story of how we was nearly lost in the desert!Plus, we dive into the archive and enjoy some of our favourite guests from the 80s. These include Curt Smith from Tears for Fears, Jim Kerr from Simple Minds, Rick Astley, and Suggs. We’ll be back with a brand-new episode with

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1:06:06

Best Of - On Tour Summer 2024

Rockonteurs with Gary Kemp and Guy Pratt ·

2024/06/22

Gary Kemp and Guy Pratt continue to tour the UK this week with Nick Mason’s Saucerful of Secrets – so here is a ‘Best Of’ episode that features some of our favourite guests who are also on tour this year. Get tickets from the artists website. On the show we hear from Neil Finn from Crowded House – who play the Isle of Wight Festival this summer and have a brilliant new album out called Gravity Stairs. Brian Johnson from AC/DC remains one of our all-time most popular episodes – and the band are

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1:09:35

S7E9: Guy Garvey

Rockonteurs with Gary Kemp and Guy Pratt ·

2024/06/15

This week on Rockonteurs we welcome a true National Treasure to the series, a songwriter, a musician, broadcaster and all-round lovely bloke, it’s Guy Garvey. Guy shares his story of his working-class routes, falling in love with a broad range of music thanks to his sisters all having such eclectic tastes. He also shares how Elbow started with modest success in Bury before a slow build to the multi-Ivor Novello award winning success of ‘The Seldom Seen Kid’ in 2008. You can’t miss his brilliant

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S7E8: Alan Edwards

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2024/06/08

This week on the podcast Gary and Guy chat to the legendary music PR Alan Edwards.Alan is the man who is responsible for keeping some of the biggest names in music in (and sometimes out) of the papers!He has worked with an incredible roster of artists from Blondie, The Sex Pistols, the Spice Girls, The Rolling Stones, and David Bowie.His new book ‘I Was There: Dispatches From a Life in Rock and Roll’ is out now.https://www.amazon.co.uk/Was-There-Dispatches-Life-Rock-ebook/dp/B0CHSHZYPDDon’t miss

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S7E7: John Oates

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2024/06/01

This week on Rockonteurs, Gary and Gary chat to singer, songwriter, and record producer John Oates.John, with his former co-writer Daryl Hall produced some of the greatest songs of the 70s and 80s making them the most successful musical duo of all time selling over 80 million albums. They were inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 2014.John has just released his latest solo album called ‘Reunion’.https://johnoates.com/In this episode Guy and Gary chat to John about his influences growing

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1:07:49

S7E4: Joe Elliott

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2024/05/04

This week we welcomeJoeElliottback to the podcast.Joeis in town to talk about the reissue of Pyromania and it doesn’t take long before Guy, Gary, andJoeare discussing their favourite artists and their favourite gigs.Joeis the perfect guest for this podcast because he’s such a music fan as much as being a global rock and roll star.The 40thanniversary special reissue of Pyromania is out now.https://defleppard.lnk.to/D2CPYRO40Instagram: @rockonteurs @guyprattofficial @garyjkemp @defleppard @joeelliott

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S7E3: Phil Manzanera 2

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2024/04/27

This week on the podcast we welcome Roxy Music’s Phil Manzanera to the show.Chatting about his incredible childhood of island hopping that lead to his diverse musical influence. Phil also chats to Guy and Gary about his new book ‘Revolución to Roxy’ which is out now and available to buy.Rockonteurs is produced byBenJonesfor Gimme Sugar Productions. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

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S7E1: Dave Wakeling

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2024/04/13

Rockonteurs returns, and this week Guy and Gary are chatting to Dave Wakeling from The Beat.Chatting about a life on the road, his influences, those politically orientated lyrics of the 1980s, being covered by Pete Townshend, supporting Bowie and an amazing tale about how he tried to get back his resignation letter from the band. He also talks about the latest releases from The Beat that are available for Record Store Day 2024, that includes some special edition vinyl. Find out more here:

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S6E7: Robin Trower

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2024/03/31

This week on Rockonteurs we chat to guitarist Robin Trower. Robin talks about his early guitar influences, his love of James Brown, his time with Procol Harum and as the bandleader in his own power trio. April 2024 is also the 50thanniversary of his acclaimed album ‘Bridge of Sighs’ which is re-released and includes brand new Dolby Atmos mixes too. Robin is an English rock n roll legend. Rockonteurs is produced by Ben Jones for Gimme Sugar Productions Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more

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S6E6: Mark Knopfler

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2024/03/24

This week on Rockonteurs, we welcome Mark Knopfler to the podcast. Where on earth do you start with a man whose career is so extensive, eclectic, and compelling? Mark shares some incredible stories of his introduction to the guitar, his heroes like Buddy Holly and Hank Marvin, his chart topping, decade defining days with Dire Straits, producing Bob Dylan and his stunning solo career that continues with the release of his new album ‘One Deep River’ out on April 12th. This is a must listen from one of

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