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The answer is yes I am, and no one can stop anyone from singing other people’s songs and of course I do, as I try to give people what they want. But also, it’s great when I sing songs from the new album and I’m working on new material, in fact Katie I might sing a brand new song at the concert – a new, new one, a single for next year. The problem I have is time!
Talking time, I’ve looked at your website and during the next six months you’re everywhere from Germany to Australia! Crickey – how do you fit it all in? Well I’ve also got Young Voices starting on the 5th January, so literally I finish on the 19th December and I’m back on the 5th January, so pretty full on, and then Young Voices kicks into swing, then it’s Australia, America, festivals and then we’re going to celebrate our anniversary with a 40-date UK tour later on in the year. I also want to go back and play some of the little pubs and clubs I played when I was 16, so it should be quite interesting actually. We’re literally going to play all the places we’ve not played in years.
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Do you find it hard to juggle it all with a young family? Yeah to be honest! I do, I mean the longest I’ll be away from Ali and the kids is four to six weeks, but then Ali and the girls are going to come and meet me in America and we’ll hopefully, hopefully have a week off where we can chill out together! It’s the nature of the business and I suppose next year being the 40th anniversary year, yeah, it’s going to be a pretty hectic year I think Katie! The thing is all anybody in this business wants to do it sing, play music, tour and work hard because you love it, and every year you worry a little bit, you know, “Are they going to like me this year?” [laughing] and then every year ends up being a busier year than the year before! You’ll always be popular!
Listen, last question, as I know you’re at the airport, and I bring this question up because I chatted about it with Midge and then you remember the magnitude of what you guys did, and that’s Band Aid – one of the biggest movements of our history really. Did you realise when you were all singing in that room just how significant that movement that you were involved in would be? No, absolutely not. Bob said you know this is what I want to do and I need to get some musicians in. I have to say that Midge doesn’t get enough credit for it – I have to add that. So, they asked us if we’d be on the song and we were like yeah ok, of course we will! It wasn’t until we arrived back at the airport a couple of weeks later, we arrived back with Duran Duran and we’d had a big night out the night before at a festival and we’d all been on the razz till about four o’clock in the morning and they said there’s actually about 300 fans and photographers and camera crews waiting. We thought bloody hell, we better get into the toilet and put some hairspray on, [laughing] make ourselves look respectable! We’d been a way for a couple of weeks and the whole thing had snowballed, it was a really lovely affair! You know Rick Parfitt was there, Sting was there, Phil Collins, Duran Duran and bless him George Michael, Paul Weller – we were all in the room, Bob, Midge Ure was there looking after things and Trevor Horn and there we were in the studio on a Sunday morning having a cup of tea and a custard cream about to embark on something that in a way changed the way we perceive charity around the world. It obviously led to Live Aid and
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everything else. Yeah, quite incredible actually. I didn’t think it would be as big as it was, I don’t think any of us thought that actually. It just grew legs and hasn’t stopped, awesome to be part of that? Yes, it is. What it did was it galvanised the whole world into realising ‘wow, there’s a problem on planet Earth, in Ethiopia’. We live in a very privileged society, but there are people out here that don’t have running water, that don’t have food and live with famine and war and terrible, terrible conditions. It galvanised the world and continues to galvanise the world today, so yes, bloody good thing, amazing really and great to be part of it.
Thanks for your time Tony! See you at Christmas time Katie, later in the year I’ll be doing another orchestral show at Symphony Hall, but that’s later. The gig at Lichfield Cathedral will be a full band gig – you’ll love it and a few Christmas songs to boot, it will be a great laugh!
See Tony Hadley live at Lichfield Cathedral in support of The Lichfield Festival
www.Lichfieldfestival.org for more information. For more information on Tony’s tour visit
www.tonyhadley.com
All proceeds from the show are being shared between St Giles Hospice and the Lichfeild Arts Festival.
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