Leo Sayer burst onto national telly in 1973 dressed as a Pierrot with the Show Must Go On launching a 50-year career in colourful company – songwriters, boxing legends, swindling managers, scurrilous socialites – and learning a great deal in the process. “Don’t underestimate the idiots!” is the hard-won advice. He’s touring in October and joins us here from Australia to look back at …
… how he and Linda Ronstadt escaped from Trump’s gruesome penthouse
… walking through Memphis dressed as a clown
… seeing Lonnie Donegan invent skiffle, Dylan at the Albert Hall and Bob Marley at the Lyceum from the side of the stage
… when Paul Kossoff asked him to audition for Free
… designing record sleeves for Marley, Roger Daltrey, Humble Pie and Quintessence
… “I’m the Forrest Gump of the music industry – nearly there!”
… “working with Adam Faith was like having Marlon Brando as your acting coach”
… the advice Paul McCartney gave him in 1973
… “Do you mind if I vomit in your shoe?”
… and a week in a training camp with Muhammad Ali.
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