I know, isn’t that far out? I don’t think there was a lot of ripping. It didn’t take long until they were ripping the seats out for you. I thought, “I’m going to be like those lads though,” and I turned into a Teddy Boy. I didn’t even think I’d be as big as Bill Haley. Is that when you decided you were someday going to be as big as Bill Haley? One of the big days was when they let me get out of bed so I could sit on a chair: “Ah, wow - I’m sitting on a chair !” I had TB, so they just put me in a greenhouse in Haswell, outside of Liverpool, which had trees and a breeze. “I’m getting better now!” Thanks to America - they invented streptomycin. I know, yeah! After being in bed for a year. It’s incredible how you get out of the hospital, then you’re in a new world where kids are ripping up the cinema. But he did a good job on “Rock Around the Clock.” That’s why we loved Elvis and Eddie Cochran and Buddy, all those guys that came after Bill, because Bill just looked like your dad. So I was just thinking about Bill Haley and thought, “Well, I’m going to do ‘Rock Around the Clock.’”īill always looked like your dad. It just was in in my heart for the rest of my life, as you can tell. And it’s like “Wow!” - I’d just come out of hospital - “Wow! Things have changed!” You know what I mean? It was so great. It was one of those rowdy holiday places, everybody’s having fun, like Florida on a bad day.Īnd they just ripped the cinema apart! I mean, ripping out the seats and throwing them out and fighting.
Rock Around the Clock was playing in the cinema, so they took me. Then we came back to my grandparents’ in Liverpool - they brought me up with my mother, because my dad left when I was three. We got out two weeks before my birthday and went to London with my stepdad, to hang out with his family for a week. We spoke to the doctors, my mum did a bit of begging, and the doctors let us go. I’d had my 14th birthday and it was coming up to my 15th, and I just didn’t want to be there for 15. I was thinking - one of those days you’re just sitting around thinking - about when I was 15. How did you come to sing “Rock Around the Clock”? The new record has a flashback to your Fifties roots. I haven’t really been out because of the pandemic at all. I love it because I can also say hi to the dogs, hi to Barbara, have a cup of tea, whatever, and we’re safe. Then in the bedroom, there’s three amplifiers and two kits of drums. All the keyboards, all the mics are here. We’re in this room here - what is it, lads, 15-by-12? All the equipment is here. Yeah - I can’t tell you what the song is, but Eddie Vedder was over the other day with his files. I wanna, I wanna, I wanna!” Now we can send the files around. It saves my life, saves my ass, because some days I’m in there going, “Oh, I’m fed up with this - I want to be on tour. We have nothing better to do some days, so we write a song. Bruce Sugar is the engineer here - also known as a producer. “Just the Way” is a reggae track, with Tony Chen and Fully Fullwood. And who else are you going talk to besides Trombone Shorty? He’s like a whole brass section. We thought, “Let’s put a trombone on it,” so we sent it to New Orleans. On this EP, I’m working with a lot of people I’ve never worked with before, like Linda Perry, who is so great. Luke’s playing guitar on it, but it’s also got a bit of brass, so it’s got body. I love that - it’s Steve Lukather and Joe Williams. The lead single, “Let’s Change the World,” is so great and timely. I thought, “I don’t want to make another album.” Ten songs is like a job - a good job, I love to play, but now I’m just going to do fours, because I was a big fan of EPs anyway.
That’s because I’m putting it out in increments. You’re putting out so much new music this year - you’re the hardest-working man in show business.
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