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'''You and Ray Davies just played a free gig for 60,000 fans ¡n Hyde Park after Elton John fell ill…''' | |||
Yes, I haven’t actually seen Elton but I hope he’s OK. I agree with free stuff. It’s summer. | |||
Take a ball down to the park and listen to sorne music. I also saw it as a subtle act of | |||
insurgency. Elton has millions of fans. I wanted to nick a few of them. | |||
'''You’ve also just finished your 31st album, Wise Up Ghost, with The Roots. You’ve done rock, pop, country, classical. Are you trying to prove something?''' | |||
Not at all. The Roots are an incredible band and the house band for (US chat show) The | |||
Jimmy Fallon Show. I was invited on the show and it turns out Quest (Ahmir "?uestlove” | |||
Thompson, Roots leader) knows some of mv music better than I do. We ended up | |||
recording and it turned into an album. | |||
'''You wrote [[Watching The Detectives]] drinking an entire jar of instant coffee while listening to the first Clash album. Is your creative process still the same?''' | |||
Yes. After a period of being inpi red by stronger stuff I am back round to coffee. Better shit now, | |||
obviously. I have a machine. But it’s my only vice. Why do you think that song ¡s so jerky? | |||
I drank a lot of coffee before nailing that chorus. | |||
'''You sang (anti-Thatcher song] [[Tramp The Dirt Down]] at Glastonbury last month. Is it still relevant?''' | |||
I think it is. Thatcher mutated into Blair. He was a bigger fucker than she ever was. I mean | |||
it. History will judge him. She started a little war (the Falklands). He started one that still | |||
hasn’t ended. And the useless slimeballs we have now are very much hers and his children… | |||
'''On Tramp The Dirt Down you hope to see Thatcher die. Were you triumphant?''' | |||
I don’t wish death on anyone. There was Thatcher, the person, and then there were her | |||
ideas. My father died of Parkinson’s- related dementia a year and a half ago. I wouldn’t wish | |||
that on my worst enemy So no, not triumphant at all. But at the same time there are people who | |||
do things in politics which are repulsive to me. | |||
'''You performed Penny Lane with Paul McCartney for Barack Obama at the White House not along ago. How was that?''' | |||
I don’t agree with everything Obama does either but he comes across as a man and obviousJy he has great taste in music. Me, Paul, Jack White and the Jonas Brothers were there. We had a US Marine playing the Penny Lane horn parts. We sounded alright. | |||
'''Have you ever told Paul McCartney you once sold your copy of A Hard Day’s Night to pay a gas bill?''' | |||
I’ve known Paul for 3O years and I have never told him that. It’s true, though But when I signed my first record deal with Stiff I used the money to buy it back,. And vou know what? I don’t think I was ever happier in life than strumming along to that record. | |||
Wise Up Ghost is out 16 September. | |||
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