![]() Have you sought the opinion of your cousin Lewis Capaldi? It was just some friends doing stuff they enjoy that got a bit… elaborate. Don’t worry, I don’t suddenly think I’m a rock star. Although when you’re making your first record at 63, some of rock’n’roll’s traditional subject matter is closed to you. I was in a band at art school and our obsessions back then were melancholia, punk, synthesisers, power chords, rain and being pale and interesting. The public saved him, rather like a TV talent contest. They decided he wasn’t real but by then, it was too late because everyone liked him. ![]() I was always intrigued why the Catholic church got rid of Saint Christopher, who was a fabulous saint. Maybe Malcolm Tucker could wake people up to this terrible government That was cancelled due to lockdown but we sent the demos back and forth until we had something that appeared to be an album. We’d booked Konk Studios in Crouch End, north London, which was great because it was the Kinks’ old studio and I love Ray Davies. I’d send them to Robert, who very sweetly rejected a whole pile of my efforts until eventually we had enough to take into the studio. Yes, I was shooting the Suicide Squad film in Atlanta for four months and had a lot of downtime, so I bought a cheap electric guitar and made demos on GarageBand. You wrote most of the songs in America, right? I loved that, so with Robert’s encouragement, I had a go at writing more. It was very exciting to watch the real deal at work, so I scribbled out a song and they turned it into proper music within a day. He knew I played guitar and leaned on me to come along. My friend Dr Robert from the Blow Monkeys is a terrific musician and every year he hosts a kind of happening where disparate musicians come together for a recording session. You’re releasing your debut album aged 63.
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