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, Roxy Music’s Phil Manzanera, super-producer Trevor Horn, Chris Difford of Squeeze and their bandmate from A Saucerful of Secrets, Pink Floyd’s Nick Mason
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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…
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 o…
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 th…
Gary Kemp and Guy Pratt continue their UK tour this week with Nick Mason’s Saucerful of Secrets – but found time to spend even more time together to record a special episode where they chat about wor…
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 …
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-clas…
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 paper…
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 ma…
This brilliant Brian Auger joins Gary and Guy this week for another must listen episode of Rockonteurs.
Brian is a total gent and was there from the earliest days of Rock and Roll as the go to organ a…
This week on Rockonteurs, Gary and Guy welcome one of the greatest ever songwriters to the podcast, in fact Jimmy Webb is the only artist ever to receive a Grammy Awards for music, lyrics and orchest…
This week we welcome Joe Elliott back to the podcast. Joe is in town to talk about the reissue of Pyromania and it doesn’t take long before Guy, Gary, and Joe are discussing their favourite artists a…
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 Gu…
This week we welcome Woody Woodmansey to the podcast. Woody is the last man standing from Bowie's band ‘The Spiders From Mars’ and Woody shares some incredible stories with us this week from his firs…
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 …
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 o…
This week on Rockonteurs we are joined by the American writer and producer Joe Boyd. Joe has worked with a stunning array of artists from Fairport Convention, Nick Drake, REM and, of course Pink Floy…
This week Guy and Gary are joined by another legendary bassist, from Guns n Roses, we welcome Duff McKagan to Rockonteurs. There is so much more to Duff than that incredible band. We dig into his pas…
This week on Rockonteurs, Gary and Guy get to meet a real-life guitar hero of theirs – the wonderful Steve Howe.
Steve takes us through his journey from psychedelia to prog, from the Syndicats to Yes,…
This week on Rockonteurs, Gary and Guy are joined by our good friend Sophie Ellis-Bextor. Sophie has evolved from an indie darling to a global pop princess and in this episode she talks about her fir…