
Billy Sloan, the man who interviewed Grace Jones in a bath
About this episode
Billy Sloan, Glaswegian broadcaster and music columnist, has written his memoir, ‘One Love, One Life’, about a career that’s allowed him to point his microphone at an astonishing array of musicians and started back in the old analogue world of tight-deadline newspaper journalism where you hammered out your Chuck Berry interview as the rolls of film were biked back to the office to be processed. This covers a lot of ground including …
… the moment that changed his life.
… why the London Press Corps were “a pack of hyenas”.
… Rod Stewart v Michelle Mone – a classic revenge saga that ticked every box.
… interviewing a naked Grace Jones (and how Dame Edna got involved).
… the exquisitely “horrible” Chuck Berry.
… queuing all night for 85p Who tickets, aged 15.
… the Sensational Alex Harvey Band, “boo-ed onstage, roared off”.
… a trip to the Reeperbahn via Rory Gallagher.
… life at the Sunday Mail and the Daily Record.
… the great Scottish rock boom of the early ‘80s “when if you had a floppy fringe and desert boots you’d expect to be flagged down by an A&R man with a chequebook”.
… and the star that made him feel and “you’re only one duff question away from getting a right hook”.
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