Rockonteurs with Gary Kemp and Guy Pratt
Oct 3, 2026 · 1 hr 13 min · 17 segments
This week on the Rockonteurs podcast, Gary Kemp and Guy Pratt talk to the legendary Earl Slick. What a guitarist, what a storyteller and what a career. In this episode he talks about working…
Earl SlickGuest
Gary KempHost
Guy PrattHost
um there's 404 names in it and uh i've written a book uh about virtually everybody that i could find who was in it and that's maybe i think i missed about 30 and and tell brian's story through all the contacts within the book and explain who they are as much as i can find because some of them are extremely well known as you can imagine and some of them are completely unknown and I would only find in very small places and strange places as it was you know like a local Chicago newspaper from 1965 where someone's accused of arrested for being abroad in the night and such things you know And I put it together with Simon Halfon, who's this great graphics designer who did Style Council and Wham and Oasis and did the Supersonic book and actually produced the Supersonic documentary as well.
And also, I must say, it does warm the cockles of my heart that my dad warrants a little mention in it, which is nice.
And it's that great realisation of how... of how London 1967 was absolutely, it's kind of like the fulcrum around which everything has kind of spun, isn't it? Before and since.
It's almost before the fall, isn't it, really? Everything had come to its peak artistically, it seems, in 1967.
And, um, and of course this, that's the year that Brian dies and in a way that's the beginning of many tragedies that, that follow, uh, in, in, in his footsteps after that, you know, and, and sort of culminating in Altamont in, uh, in 69 really.
Um, so it's, it's an extremely positive year for, for music and for the Beatles, but it's also a year that, um, that Brian struggles with a lot of sadness because he's, um, he obviously has, uh, drug addictions through uppers and downers, sleeping pills.
Um, and, um, And he's concerned about all of the deals that he's made with the Beatles that haven't worked out, the merchandise deal.
Well, the Priory, I think, back then was probably slightly different to kind of what it is now because the idea of addiction and addiction treatment didn't really exist
then.
um there's 404 names in it and uh i've written a book uh about virtually everybody that i could find who was in it and that's maybe i think i missed about 30 and and tell brian's story through all the contacts within the book and explain who they are as much as i can find because some of them are extremely well known as you can imagine and some of them are completely unknown and I would only find in very small places and strange places as it was you know like a local Chicago newspaper from 1965 where someone's accused of arrested for being abroad in the night and such things you know And I put it together with Simon Halfon, who's this great graphics designer who did Style Council and Wham and Oasis and did the Supersonic book and actually produced the Supersonic documentary as well.
And also, I must say, it does warm the cockles of my heart that my dad warrants a little mention in it, which is nice.
And it's that great realisation of how... of how London 1967 was absolutely, it's kind of like the fulcrum around which everything has kind of spun, isn't it? Before and since.
It's almost before the fall, isn't it, really? Everything had come to its peak artistically, it seems, in 1967.
And, um, and of course this, that's the year that Brian dies and in a way that's the beginning of many tragedies that, that follow, uh, in, in, in his footsteps after that, you know, and, and sort of culminating in Altamont in, uh, in 69 really.
Um, so it's, it's an extremely positive year for, for music and for the Beatles, but it's also a year that, um, that Brian struggles with a lot of sadness because he's, um, he obviously has, uh, drug addictions through uppers and downers, sleeping pills.
Um, and, um, And he's concerned about all of the deals that he's made with the Beatles that haven't worked out, the merchandise deal.
Well, the Priory, I think, back then was probably slightly different to kind of what it is now because the idea of addiction and addiction treatment didn't really exist
then.
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