The pianist, 65, tells Rich Pelley about swerving the army, being invited to leave school, his massive train-set and life-long love of boogie-woogie
‘I was playing pub shows and getting £10 a night, thinking, “We don’t need this school business”’: Jools Holland.‘I was playing pub shows and getting £10 a night, thinking, “We don’t need this school business”’: Jools Holland.The pianist, 65, on swerving the army, being invited to leave school, his massive train-set and life-long love of boogie-woogiethe piano. She liked old blues music, gospel, classical, as did my father. Growing up in the 1970s, I wasn’t into the charts.
Back then, if you said you were interested in music, they’d say: “Have you thought about joining the army?” I was playing pub shows and getting £10 a night, thinking, “We don’t need this school business.” I was lucky, which you need to be in music. Or I’d have probably have had to join the Grenadier Guards.of Rod Stewart, who’s got an enormous one. He said, put your train-set in the biggest room available and it’ll bring you great happiness. And he was right.
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