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Post by craydarr on Dec 29, 2017 20:33:04 GMT
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Post by snakelady on Dec 30, 2017 8:36:53 GMT
Well, it isn't much of a JC interview though, is it ? John definitely isn't much of a talker. It's the interviewer mainly talking to himself with the occasional 'yes', 'no' or one liners from John interspersed Francis is being Francis and when the interviewer isn't posing the same questions as always, they're a joy to read/listen to.
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Post by craydarr on Dec 30, 2017 8:50:11 GMT
I thought this was an interesting comment from Fran and I have heard him say this before. The funny thing is I remember BB King saying the same thing in an interview and he was about 80 at the time.
“Bryan Adams was talking to Ginger (that’ll be the host of BBC Radio 2’s Chris Evans Breakfast Show then), telling him how much he loves playing, and said a lot of people rely on him for a living – wives, children and the roadcrew in his organisation. And I had to ring and thank him for saying that. It’s about time people realised a rock’n’roll band or singer is like a corner shop. Unless it takes ‘x’ amount of money a year, there’ll be no corner shop. The same with newspapers, magazines, whatever.
“He’s the only other person I’ve heard mention it. I called him, I think he was in Paris, and we agreed it’s a responsibility. Some people have worked for us for 25 years or more. They’re paid, but that’s not the point – they’ve remained loyal to us, and they have commitments such as mortgages, children, so on. Without them, we’re on our own and nothing works.
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Post by mortified on Dec 30, 2017 8:58:08 GMT
I thought this was an interesting comment from Fran and I have heard him say this before. The funny thing is I remember BB King saying the same thing in an interview and he was about 80 at the time. “Bryan Adams was talking to Ginger (that’ll be the host of BBC Radio 2’s Chris Evans Breakfast Show then), telling him how much he loves playing, and said a lot of people rely on him for a living – wives, children and the roadcrew in his organisation. And I had to ring and thank him for saying that. It’s about time people realised a rock’n’roll band or singer is like a corner shop. Unless it takes ‘x’ amount of money a year, there’ll be no corner shop. The same with newspapers, magazines, whatever. “He’s the only other person I’ve heard mention it. I called him, I think he was in Paris, and we agreed it’s a responsibility. Some people have worked for us for 25 years or more. They’re paid, but that’s not the point – they’ve remained loyal to us, and they have commitments such as mortgages, children, so on. Without them, we’re on our own and nothing works. It's an aspect as fans we tend to forget about - or more likely, ignore. Because it's not the reason we got into a band or music in the first place as ideological teenagers. And when we did, bands didn't go on for 40 or 50 years with an entire industry in tow! It still doesn't sit right with me for some bizarre reason. I dare say that ideological teenager is still inside me somewhere. But I was an unthinking, selfish idiot then and I'm still a bit of an idiot now. It never leaves you
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