Listen "Chatting with Eddy Grant"
Episode Synopsis
Eddy Grant has seen and done it all...from breaking new ground with his 60's multi-racial band The Equals to nurturing his love for Guyana and Caribbean music, including soca to ringbang.
In our first podcast of two, Eddy goes back to his roots when his band broke into the pop charts with Baby Come Back and talks intimately about those scary health traumas in his life which resulted in him having to quit the band. After the seven years of bad luck he broke the mould by becoming the first black musician to own his own studios. He also chats about his love and respect for his recently departed friends Toots Hibbert and Bunny Lee.
With his latest album Plaisance riding high in many charts, Eddy talks about what the singer-songwriter Carole King meant to him growing up as a kid in Guyana which resulted in writing Is Carole King Here, now released in its own right as a single. .
Series 2 - Episode 17 (part 1 of a 2 part podcast)
For more information about Eddy Grant, visit his website HERE
Want to listen to more 80's podcasts?
TONY HADLEY
CHERYL BAKER
LIMAHL
SHAKIN' STEVENS
HAZEL O'CONNOR
OWEN PAUL
PAUL YOUNG
MARK SHAW (THEN JERICO)
In our first podcast of two, Eddy goes back to his roots when his band broke into the pop charts with Baby Come Back and talks intimately about those scary health traumas in his life which resulted in him having to quit the band. After the seven years of bad luck he broke the mould by becoming the first black musician to own his own studios. He also chats about his love and respect for his recently departed friends Toots Hibbert and Bunny Lee.
With his latest album Plaisance riding high in many charts, Eddy talks about what the singer-songwriter Carole King meant to him growing up as a kid in Guyana which resulted in writing Is Carole King Here, now released in its own right as a single. .
Series 2 - Episode 17 (part 1 of a 2 part podcast)
For more information about Eddy Grant, visit his website HERE
Want to listen to more 80's podcasts?
TONY HADLEY
CHERYL BAKER
LIMAHL
SHAKIN' STEVENS
HAZEL O'CONNOR
OWEN PAUL
PAUL YOUNG
MARK SHAW (THEN JERICO)
More episodes of the podcast Woolleys Beat
50 Years Of Slade - Dave Hill
04/05/2025
The Musical Youth Story (Dennis Seaton)
06/04/2025
Ian Prowse - The 20th Anniversary Tour
02/03/2025
The Zombies Story - Colin Blunstone
02/02/2025
Mike Batt - Wombling Through The Decades
05/01/2025
Merrill Osmond - The Osmond Story
01/12/2024
Shaun Ryder - Poet
06/10/2024
The Decca Choice - Brian Poole (pt.1)
01/09/2024
The Darts Story - Griff Fender
11/08/2024
My Early Roller Days - Woody
07/07/2024
ZARZA We are Zarza, the prestigious firm behind major projects in information technology.