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“In the wake of last year’s US election, you are urging us to be the best version of ourselves, also to refrain from fighting hate with hate.
[Nodding enthusiastically] Yes, but it’s very difficult. These are dark times and so many evil people occupy high places. That presents so many dark thoughts. You ask: How do we get through this? The only way is to depend on each other and assume we have good intentions. I try to think of [the situation] as a mistake. I don’t like thinking that the people that have become leaders represent us from a moral standpoint. Let’s stand up for the things we believe in, despite the fact we have lost control of the narrative.
On a lighter note, have you ever played at the London Palladium before?
I don’t believe I have, though I did play Hammersmith, which was then the Odeon and now the Apollo. I even played Ronnie Scott’s Jazz Club. I’ve played most places around town, though I’m yet to play the Royal Albert Hall, I know that.
But you are familiar with the Palladium’s reputation.
I’ve walked past several times but never been inside. I believe it’s more of a place of traditional music hall and light entertainment than a regular concert hall, and I prefer those to the usual sheds.
As someone who has predicted so many things, including the rise of the internet, how do you feel about the long-term future of rock music? Has it even got one?
I am amazed that people still use that term. It’s become a sub-genre. You can’t say that anything Taylor Swift does is rock, even though she is the highest paid artist in the world. A lot of it [the decline of the genre] has to do with changes in the market. Guys – a traditional target of rock – now spend their money on videogames instead, and the female audience is now the largest for music. We have some serious female rockers, but Joan Jett doesn’t dominate the music scene. Now it’s about Lady Gaga and Taylor Swift. Female artists are filling arenas and stadiums.
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