September 1996 – March 1997(St Catherine's Court,Bath, Somerset, England)

OK Computer is the third studio album by English alternative rock band Radiohead, released on 16 June 1997. Radiohead recorded the album in rural Oxfordshire and Bath, during 1996 and early 1997, with producer Nigel Godrich. Although most of the music is dominated by guitar, OK Computer's expansive sound and wide range of influences set it apart from many of the Britpop and alternative rock bands popular at the time, and it laid the groundwork for Radiohead's later, more experimental work. While Radiohead do not consider OK Computer to be a concept album, its lyrics and visual artwork emphasise common themes such as consumerism, social disconnection, political stagnation, and modern malaise.

OK Computer reached number-one on the UK Albums Chart and marked Radiohead's highest entry into the American market at the time, debuting at number 21 on the Billboard 200. The album expanded the band's worldwide popularity, and has been certified triple platinum in the UK and Canada, double platinum in the US and platinum in Australia. OK Computer received considerable acclaim at the time of its release, and is frequently cited by critics as one of the greatest albums ever recorded.

Background

After the stressful tour in support of The Bends, the band took a break in January 1996 and expressed a desire to change their musical and lyrical style from that of their previous album. Drummer Phil Selway said that "The Bends was an introspective album... There was an awful lot of soul searching. To do that again on another album would be excruciatingly boring."

Recording

Radiohead resumed their recording sessions in September 1996 at St Catherine's Court, a historic mansion near Bath owned by actress Jane Seymour. They made much use of the different rooms and atmospheres throughout the house; the vocals on "Exit Music (For a Film)" featured an echo effect achieved by recording on a stone staircase, and "Let Down" was recorded at 3 AM in a ballroom. The isolation from the outside world allowed the band to work at a different pace, with more flexible and spontaneous working hours. O'Brien said that "the biggest pressure was actually completing [the recording]. We weren't given any deadlines and we had complete freedom to do what we wanted. We were delaying it because we were a bit frightened of actually finishing stuff." Yorke was ultimately satisfied with the quality of the recordings made at the house, and later stated "In a big country house, you don't have that dreadful '80s 'separation'. ... There wasn't a desire for everything to be completely steady and each instrument recorded separately." O'Brien was similarly pleased with the recordings, estimating that 80% of the album was recorded live and noted "I hate doing overdubs, because it just doesn't feel natural. ... Something special happens when you're playing live; a lot of it is just looking at one another and knowing there are four other people making it happen."

Radiohead returned to Canned Applause in October for rehearsals, and completed most of the album during further sessions at St. Catherine's Court. By Christmas, they had narrowed down the tracklisting to 14 songs. The album's string parts were recorded at Abbey Road Studios in London in January 1997. The album was mastered at the same location, with mixing taking place over the next two months at various studios around the city.

Musical style and themes

Yorke explained that the "incredibly dense and terrifying sound" of Bitches Brew by jazz composer Miles Davis was his starting point for the record. The band also drew influence from the film soundtrack composer Ennio Morricone and modern classical composer Krzysztof Penderecki, and that "Loads of the music on OK Computer is extremely uplifting. It's only when you read the words that you'd think otherwise." Themes that pervade the album include transport, technology, insanity, death, modern life in the UK, globalisation, and political objection to capitalism. Radiohead have stated that although the songs have common themes, any clear story is unintentional and they do not deem OK Computer to be a concept album. However, the band stated that the album was meant to be heard as a whole. O'Brien said, "We spent two weeks track-listing the album. The context of each song is really important... It's not a concept album but there is a continuity there." The bassline in "Airbag" stops and starts unexpectedly, and according to Colin Greenwood "I thought I'd probably think of something to put in the gaps later, but I never got around to it." The song's references to automobile accidents and reincarnation, were inspired by a magazine article titled "An Airbag Saved My Life" and The Tibetan Book of the Dead. Yorke wrote "Airbag" about "the idea that whenever you go out on the road you could be killed." "Paranoid Android", the band's longest recorded studio track at 6:23, has an unconventional multi-section song structure inspired by The Beatles' multipart "Happiness Is a Warm Gun" and Queen's "Bohemian Rhapsody", as well as the Pixies, who Yorke considers "the greatest band ever". The song was written by Yorke after an unpleasant night at a Los Angeles bar, particularly a woman who reacted violently after someone spilled a drink on her. The song is also a reference to the Bob Dylan song "Subterranean Homesick Blues", however it has a science fiction-theme in which the isolated narrator longs to be abducted by extraterrestrials to see "the world as I'd love to see it".

William Shakespeare's Romeo and Juliet, particularly the 1968 film adaptation, inspired the lyrics for "Exit Music (For a Film)". "Let Down" prominently features arpeggiated guitars and electric piano and includes a guitar solo by Jonny Greenwood in a different time signature than the one the song is written; O’Brien described the song as "a nod to Phil Spector".

"Fitter Happier", which begins the second half of the album, consists of sampled musical and background sound and lyrics recited by a synthesised voice from the Macintosh SimpleText application. Written after a period of writer's block, "Fitter Happier" was described by Yorke as a checklist of slogans for the 1990s, which he considered "the most upsetting thing I've ever written". "Electioneering", featuring cowbell and a distorted guitar solo, has been compared to the band's more rock-oriented style on Pablo Honey. It was inspired by Noam Chomsky's writings— Yorke likened its lyrics, which focus on issues of political and artistic compromise, to "a preacher ranting in front of a bank of microphones". The next track, "Climbing Up the Walls", is marked by ambient insect-like noises and "metallic" drums. The song's string section, composed by Jonny Greenwood and written for 16 instruments, was inspired by the Penderecki composition Threnody to the Victims of Hiroshima; Greenwood said of the song that "I got very excited at the prospect of doing string parts that didn't sound like 'Eleanor Rigby', which is what all string parts have sounded like for the past 30 years." The song is about "the monster in the closet", with Yorke drawing on a brief job as an orderly in a mental hospital, and an article in The New York Times about serial killers, in writing it. acoustic guitar, glockenspiel, and vocal harmonies. With "No Surprises", the band strove to replicate the atmosphere of Marvin Gaye's music and the 1968 Louis Armstrong recording of "What a Wonderful World". "Lucky" was originally a contribution to the 1995 War Child charity album The Help Album, and though the band considered remixing it for OK Computer, it was ultimately left unedited. The track is comparable to the early-1970s music of Pink Floyd, a major influence on Jonny Greenwood. "Lucky" depicts a man who survives an aeroplane crash in a lake and becomes a "superhero"; the song is thematically linked to "Airbag", and Yorke has described the song in interviews as having "positive", upbeat lyrics.

The album's closing song, "The Tourist", was created by Jonny Greenwood, who said "'The Tourist' doesn't sound like Radiohead at all. It's a song where there doesn't have to happen anything every 3 seconds. It has become a song with space." The slowly paced song is written in 3/4 time, but with an additional beat at the end of every other line in the verse. "The Tourist" was chosen as the album's final song, according to Yorke, "because a lot of the album was about background noise and everything moving too fast and not being able to keep up. It was really obvious to have 'Tourist' as the last song. That song was written to me from me, saying, 'Idiot, slow down.' Because at that point, I needed to. So that was the only resolution there could be: to slow down."

Title and packaging

The album's cover design is a collage of images and text by Stanley Donwood, who is credited with design on several Radiohead covers, along with Yorke. Some of the art is computer-made collages, created by Yorke; other art is hand-drawn work by Donwood. Yorke explained the artwork's theme, saying, "Someone's being sold something they don't really want, and someone's being friendly because they're trying to sell something. That's what it means to me. It's quite sad, and quite funny as well. All the artwork and so on...we chose to pursue it after we [finished the album]. ... It was all the things that I hadn't said in the songs." O'Brien said that only the band's British label, Parlophone, expected great things from OK Computer, while other labels around the world downsized their initial sales estimates after listening to the record. Capitol Records, Radiohead's American label, lowered its sales estimates from two million to 500,000 copies. O'Brien said the label could not see any potential singles on the album, let alone anything that would be as popular as "Creep".

Parlophone undertook an unorthodox advertising campaign for the album, taking out full-page advertisements in high-profile British newspapers and tube stations. The advertisements featured the lyrics for "Fitter Happier" written in large black letters on a white background. Capitol president Gary Gersh, when asked about the campaign after the album's release, said "We won't let up until they are the biggest band in the world".

Radiohead chose "Paranoid Android" as the lead single from OK Computer. Despite a lack of radio play, the song charted at number three in the United Kingdom, giving Radiohead their highest singles chart position. The album debuted at number one on the British album charts, where it stayed for two weeks. OK Computer stayed in the top 10 for weeks, and became the country's eighth-best selling record of the year. Two additional singles, "Karma Police" and "No Surprises", were released. Both charted in the UK singles top 10, and "Karma Police" charted on the Billboard Modern Rock Tracks peaking at number 14. charted in the US on Modern Rock Tracks at number 29. In March 2009, Ed O'Brien mentioned during an interview that some slight damage to the OK Computer master tape was noticed when producer Graeme Stewart was backing up the band's archive of recorded material to hard drives.

Reception

The album was also favourably received by critics in North America. Rolling Stone gave the album four out of five stars. Reviewer Mark Kemp wrote that the album is "a stunning art-rock tour de force ... On OK Computer, Radiohead take the ideas they had begun toying with on The Bends into the stratosphere. ... OK Computer is evidence that [Radiohead] are one rock band still willing to look the devil square in the eyes", but warned "OK Computer is not an easy listen." An Entertainment Weekly review by David Browne gave the album a B+, and wrote that "When the arrangements and lyrics meander or sprout pretensions, the album grows ponderous and soggy. For all of Radiohead's growing pains, though, their aim — to take British pop to a heavenly new level — is true." In an article for The New Yorker, writer Alex Ross praised OK Computer for its progressiveness, and contrasted Radiohead's risk-taking with the more musically conservative "dadrock" of their contemporaries Oasis. Ross wrote that "Throughout the album, contrasts of mood and style are extreme [...] This band has pulled off one of the great art-pop balancing acts in the history of rock." Ryan Schreiber wrote, in a highly enthusiastic ten out of ten review in his online music magazine Pitchfork Media, that "Radiohead's third piece of incredible work, OK Computer, is not only their best yet, but one of the year's greatest releases. The record is brimming with genuine emotion, beautiful and complex imagery and music, and lyrics that are at once passive and fire-breathing."

What really blew my head off was the fact that people got all the things, all the textures and the sounds and the atmospheres we were trying to create.

—Thom YorkeOn his surprise at the critical response to OK Computer

In England, I think a lot of the reviews have been slightly over-the-top, because the last album was somewhat under-reviewed possibly and under-received.

—Jonny GreenwoodOn OK Computer's positive critical reception Andy Gill wrote for The Independent in an otherwise positive review, "For all its ambition, OK Computer is not, finally, as impressive as The Bends, which covered much the same sort of emotional knots, but with better tunes. It is easy to be impressed by, but ultimately hard to love, an album that so luxuriates in its despondency". While a review in Time was largely positive, particularly praising the songs "Airbag", "Paranoid Android", and "Let Down", reviewer Christopher John Farley criticised the second half of the album. Farley stated, "While the first half-dozen tracks reward repeated listenings with melodies that grow and bloom with familiarity, there is often no structure to be found in the remaining half-dozen numbers."

At the end of 1997, OK Computer appeared in many critics' lists and listener polls for best album of the year. OK Computer topped the year-end polls of the magazines Mojo, Vox, Entertainment Weekly, Hot Press, Muziekkrant OOR, HUMO, Eye Weekly, and Inpress, and tied for first place with Daft Punk's Homework in The Face. The album placed second in NME, Melody Maker, Rolling Stone, Village Voice, Spin and Uncut. Q and Les Inrockuptibles both listed OK Computer in their unranked year-end polls. OK Computer was a nominee for the 1997 Mercury Prize, a prestigious award recognising the best British or Irish album of the year. The album was nominated in the Album of the Year and Best Alternative Music Performance categories at the 1998 Grammy Awards, ultimately winning the latter award.

OK Computer first appeared in a "best of all time" list three months after its release, placing 16 in a chart based on submissions by customers of Virgin Megastores. This chart heavily favoured recent releases, which suggested that OK Computer's popularity was a passing fad. However, OK Computer has since appeared frequently in professional lists of greatest albums. In early 1998, OK Computer topped a Q reader's poll of the greatest albums of all time, and in 2001 Q placed it at number one in a list of the top 50 pop albums of the last 15 years. A number of publications, including NME, Melody Maker, Spin, Alternative Press, and Time placed OK Computer prominently in lists of best albums of the 1990s or of all time. In 2003, the album was ranked number 162 on Rolling Stone magazine's list of the 500 greatest albums of all time. Additionally, retrospective reviews from The A.V. Club and Slant Magazine have received the album favourably; likewise, Rolling Stone gave the album five stars in the 2004 Rolling Stone Album Guide, with critic Rob Sheffield saying "Radiohead was claiming the high ground abandoned by Nirvana, Pearl Jam, U2, R.E.M., everybody; and fans around the world loved them for trying too hard at a time when nobody else was even bothering." In 2006, British Hit Singles & Albums and NME organised a poll of which, 40,000 people worldwide voted for the 100 best albums ever and OK Computer was placed at number 4 on the list.

Legacy

OK Computer was recorded in the lead up to the 1997 general election. It was thus seen by critics as encompassing public opinion through its "despairing-yet-hopeful tone" and themes of alienation. Yorke said his lyrics had been affected by reading a book about the two decades of Conservative government which were just coming to an end in 1997, as well as about factory farming and globalisation. However, in interviews Yorke expressed little hope things would change under the corporate-controlled "New Labour" government of Tony Blair.

Some critics have credited OK Computer with "killing" 1990s Britpop, as within a few years of its release, the dominant style of UK guitar pop had become slower and more melancholy. Many of the newer acts used similarly complex, atmospheric arrangements. The band Travis worked with Godrich to create the languid pop texture of The Man Who, which became the biggest-selling album of 1999 in the UK. Others have credited Radiohead with beginning a mainstream revival of progressive rock and ambitious concept albums, though the band denied their affiliation with the genre. Radiohead described the prevalence of bands that "sound like us" as one reason to break with the style of OK Computer for their next album, Kid A. When asked by MTV interviewer Gideon Yago what the band thought of "bands like Travis, Coldplay, and Muse ... making a career sounding exactly like [Radiohead] did in 1997", Yorke replied "Good luck with 'Kid A'!".

Several rock bands which later became popular, ranging from Coldplay and Bloc Party to TV on the Radio, have said they were formatively influenced by OK Computer—TV on the Radio's debut album, for instance, was titled OK Calculator. Additionally, the album's popularity paved the way for British alternative rock bands such as Muse, Snow Patrol, and Keane.

Track listing

All songs written by Thom Yorke, Jonny Greenwood, Ed O'Brien, Colin Greenwood, and Phil Selway.

# "Airbag" – 4:44 # "Paranoid Android" – 6:23 # "Subterranean Homesick Alien" – 4:27 # "Exit Music (For a Film)" – 4:24 # "Let Down" – 4:59 # "Karma Police" – 4:21 # "Fitter Happier" – 1:57 # "Electioneering" – 3:50 # "Climbing Up the Walls" – 4:45 # "No Surprises" – 3:48 # "Lucky" – 4:19 # "The Tourist" – 5:24

Charts

Album

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Singles

Sources

References

Further reading

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The Walls

Name	The Walls
Landscape	yes
Background	group_or_band
Origin	Ireland
Genre	Rock
Years active	1998 – present
Label	Dirtbird Records
Associated acts	The Stunning
Url	The Walls Official Website
Current members	Joe WallSteve WallJon O'ConnellRory DoylePastCarl Harms

The Walls are an Irish rock band. They were formed in 1998 by two ex-members of The Stunning.

Members

Steve Wall

Joe Wall

Carl Harms (Guitar/Keyboards) (left February 2004)

Rory Doyle (Drums)

Jon O'Connell (Bass) (joined February 2004)

Biography

1998–2000

Brothers Steve and Joe Wall (previously of The Stunning) returned to Ireland after a two-year failed label stint in London. Their Camden housemate Carl Harms joined the band on guitar and keyboard duties. Drummer Rory Doyle joined soon afterwards. They set up their own label, Earshot Records (later changing it to Dirtbird Records) and recorded and released a string of singles. A remix of one of the album tracks, "Bone Deep", clicked with radio and became a nationwide hit. Many of the songs have featured on a number of TV series and feature films such as Bachelors Walk, Dead Bodies, Goldfish Memory and On the Edge (starring Cillian Murphy).

2001–2004

The Walls heard rumour of a second Slane Castle date for U2 (as the first concert had sold out in hours). They sent four copies of their album to the band. Bono loved it and offered The Walls a support slot. That day the band played to their biggest crowd to date – around 80,000 people. "To the Bright and Shining Sun" was their next single. That June they supported Red Hot Chili Peppers. They spent the next year gigging while building their own studio in Dublin.

In February 2004, original member Carl Harms decided to leave the band to make his own record. They recruited bassist Jon O’Connell, who had just 2 weeks to learn all the songs before a two week tour of the new EU accession states: Poland, Hungary, Slovakia and the Czech Republic. "To the Bright and Shining Sun" also featured on the EA Sports soundtrack for the UEFA Euro 2004 official licenced game.

2004 - 2006

For the next album, the band went to Studio Black Box in France to record with producer and ex-The Frames guitarist David Odlum. Originally scheduled for a release date in September 2004, The Walls decided to hold their album until the new year. U2 were releasing How to Dismantle an Atomic Bomb that autumn and according to Steve "we thought that it would be a fair and gentlemanly gesture to stand back and give them a fair crack of the whip, so to speak".

In October 2004, they released a taster - "Drowning Pool" - a blistering, spleen-venting, blues explosion, 2min 52sec long. It took people by surprise and divided opinion - exactly what the band wanted. They supported Bob Dylan to a capacity crowd in Galway that summer and played a storming set that showed there were changes afoot in The Walls sound. They christened the album New Dawn Breaking after the final track on the record. It went straight into the Irish charts at No. 5 in its first week of release in June 2005 and has produced four hit singles: "To the Bright and Shining Sun", "Passing Through", "Drowning Pool" and "Black and Blue".

2007

The band kicked off 2007 with a gig in Dubai and are presently negotiating gig offers in France, Italy, the Czech Republic and China. They also supported Crowded House on their Australian comeback tour before retreating into their studio to work on album number three.

2008

Discography

Studio albums

Hi-Lo (released May 2000).

New Dawn Breaking (released June 2005) (reached No. 5 in Irish charts)

Singles and albums

"The Night I Called It A Day" (Single, released Feb 1999)

"Broken Boy" (Single, released Sept 1999)

"Something's Wrong" (Single, released Apr 2000)

Hi-Lo (Album, released May 2000). A remix of one of the album tracks, Bone Deep, was popular in Ireland. Some songs featured on TV series and feature films: Bachelors Walk, Dead Bodies, Goldfish Memory and On the Edge (starring Cillian Murphy).

"To the Bright and Shining Sun" (Single, released 2002) reached No. 11 in the Irish charts.

"Drowning Pool" (single, released 2004)

New Dawn Breaking (Album, released June 2005) reached No. 5 in Irish charts and has produced four hit singles: "To the Bright and Shining Sun", "Passing Through", "Drowning Pool" and "Black and Blue".

"Carrying the Fire" / "Phantom Power" (double-A sided single, released Jun 2010)

Cover versions

Cover version of Chaka Khan's "Ain't Nobody" on Even Better than the Real Thing Vol. 1

Cover version of Natasha Bedingfield's "These Words" on Even Better than the Real Thing Vol. 2

Cover version of U2's "Without or without you" on Even Better than the Real Thing Vol. 3

Career highlights

Supported U2 at Slane Castle, 2002

Supported Red Hot Chili Peppers, 2002

Supported Bob Dylan, Galway, 2005

Supported Crowded House, Australia, 2007

References

External links

Official band website, contains free MP3s; gig info, photos, Walls shop, press releases etc.

The Walls at MySpace, contains some sample MP3s.

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Jools Holland

Name	Jools Holland
Background	solo_singer
Birth name	Julian Miles Holland
Birth date	January 24, 1958
Birth place	Blackheath, London, England
Instrument	Piano, keyboard, guitar
Genre	Boogie-woogie, jazz, blues, R&B;
Occupation	Musician, composer, television presenter, bandleader
Years active	1974–present
Associated acts	Squeeze Rhythm & Blues Orchestra
Url	Official site

Julian Miles "Jools" Holland OBE, DL (born 24 January 1958) is an English pianist, bandleader, singer, composer, and television presenter. He was a founder of the band Squeeze, and his work has involved him with many artists including Sting, Eric Clapton, The Who, David Gilmour and Bono.

Holland is a published author and appears on television shows besides his own and contributes to radio shows. In 2004, he collaborated with Tom Jones on an album of traditional R&B; music. He currently hosts Later... with Jools Holland, a music-based show aired on BBC2.

Life and career

Holland was a founding member of the British pop band, Squeeze, formed in March 1974. Holland played keyboards with Squeeze till 1981, after which he pursued a solo career. His first studio session was with Wayne County & the Electric Chairs in 1976.

Holland began issuing solo records in 1978, his first EP being Boogie Woogie '78. He continued his solo career through the early 1980s, releasing an album and several singles between 1981 and 1984. He branched out into TV, co-presenting the Newcastle-based TV music show The Tube with Paula Yates. Holland achieved notoriety by inadvertently using the phrase "groovy fuckers" in a live, early evening TV trailer for the show, causing it to be suspended for three weeks. He referred to this in his sitcom "The Groovy Fellers" with Rowland Rivron.

's Millennium Stadium, 22 January 2005]]In 1983 Holland played an extended piano solo on The The's re-recording of "Uncertain Smile" for the album Soul Mining. In 1985, Squeeze (which had continued in Holland's absence through to 1982) unexpectedly regrouped. Holland was again the keyboard player for the band until 1990. At that point, he again departed Squeeze on amicable terms to resume his solo career as a musician and a TV host.

In 1987, Holland formed The Jools Holland Big Band which consisted of himself and Gilson Lavis from Squeeze. This gradually became his 18-piece Rhythm & Blues Orchestra.

Between 1988 and 1990 he performed and co-hosted along with David Sanborn during the two seasons of the music performance program Sunday Night on NBC late-night television. Since 1992 he has presented the eclectic music program Later... with Jools Holland, plus an annual New Year's Eve "Hootenanny".

In 1996 Holland signed a record deal with Warner Bros. Records In 1987, Holland demonstrated his love of the series and starred in a spoof documentary, The Laughing Prisoner, with Stephen Fry, Terence Alexander and Hugh Laurie. He is also known for his charity work: in June 2006 he performed in Southend for HIV / AIDS charity Mildmay, and in early 2007 he performed at Wells and Rochester Cathedrals to raise money for maintaining cathedral buildings. He is also patron of the Drake Music Project and has raised many thousands of pounds for the charity.

Jools Holland was appointed an Honorary Fellow of Canterbury Christ Church University at a ceremony held at Canterbury Cathedral on 30 January 2009.

On 29 August 2005 Holland married Christabel McEwen, his girlfriend of 15 years. The wedding at St James's Church, Cooling near Rochester, was attended by many celebrities, including Ringo Starr, Robbie Coltrane, Stephen Fry, Lenny Henry, Noel Gallagher, Dawn French and Jennifer Saunders.

Writing

His 2007 autobiography, Barefaced Lies and Boogie Woogie Boasts was BBC Radio 4 "Book of the Week" in the week beginning 8 October 2007 and was read by Holland. He is the author or joint author of four other books.

Discography

1978 "Boogie Woogie '78" (EP)

1981 Jools Holland and His Millionaires

1984 Jools Holland Meets Rock 'A' Boogie Billy (U.S. release only)

1990 World Of His Own

1991 The Full Complement

1992 "Together Again" (single with Sam Brown)

1992 The A-Z Geographer's Guide To The Piano

1994 Solo Piano

1994 Live Performance

1996 Sex & Jazz & Rock & Roll

1997 Lift The Lid

1998 Best Of

1999 Sunset Over London

2000 Hop The Wag

2001 Small World Big Band

2002 SWBB Volume Two: More Friends

2003 Jack O The Green (SWBB Friends 3)

2004 Tom Jones & Jools Holland

2005 Beatroute

2005 Swinging the Blues, Dancing the Ska

2006 Moving Out To The Country

2007 Best of Friends

2008 The Collection

2008 The Informer (With Ruby Turner)

2008 "The Informer" (single with Ruby Turner)

2009 "I Went By" (single with Louise Marshall)

2010 Rockinghorse

Film and television

1981 Urgh! A Music War

1982 Police: Around the World

1982 - 1987 The Tube (Host for 121 editions)

1983 Rebellious Jukebox: Compere

1984 The Young Ones: Punk (Episode entitled "Summer Holiday")

1985 Walking To New Orleans (Jools Holland in New Orleans)

1987 Eat the Rich: Sun Reporter

1987 Filthy Rich & Catflap: Strip Show Pianist (Episode #1.3)

1987 The Laughing Prisoner: No. 7

1987 French and Saunders (Episode 1.5)

1988 Sunday Night: Host (unknown episodes)

1989 Juke Box Jury: Host (unknown episodes)

1989 The Groovy Fellers Himself, 6 episodes

1991 Mr Roadrunner (Jools Holland in Memphis)

1994 There's No Business: Pianist

1994 - 1995 Don't Forget Your Toothbrush

1995 The Beatles Anthology

1997 Spice World: Musical Director

1997 Name That Tune: Host and Pianist

2003 Jool's History of the Piano : Presenter

2007 Fairport@Forty: Interview

2007 ''Top Gear: Star in a reasonably priced car.

2009 Chop Shop Rover Concept: The Jet 1 Car : Customer

Current television programmes

1992–present Later... with Jools Holland

2000–present Jools' Annual Hootenanny

Books

"Rolling Stones": A Life on the Road, (with Dora Loewenstein), Viking/Allen Lane (1998), (ISBN 0-670-88051-5)

Beat Route: Journeys Through Six Counties, Weidenfeld & Nicholson (1998), (ISBN 0-575-06700-4)

Ray Charles: Man and Music, (with Michael Lydon), Payback Press (1999), (ISBN 0-86241-929-8)

Hand That Changed Its Mind , International Music Publications (2007), (ISBN 1-84328-645-9)

Barefaced Lies and Boogie-woogie Boasts , Michael Joseph Ltd (2007), (ISBN 0-7181-4915-7)

References

External links

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