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EP144 - Mark Cooper - Co-creator 'Later... with Jools Holland' + Record Mirror Music Journalist
EP144 - Mark Cooper - Co-creator 'Later... with Jools Holland' + Record Mirror Music Journalist
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Length:
73 minutes
Released:
May 9, 2023
Format:
Podcast episode
Description
Episode 144: Mark Cooper... Co-creator and founding producer of 'Later... with Jools Holland' and the annual Hootenanny plus Record Mirror Magazine Music Journalist and more...My podcast guest on Episode 144 has a completely unique story from music journalist in the time of The Jam to co-creator of a music TV show that has featured Paul Weller more than any other artist.Mark Cooper is another stunner of a guest, and WOW... What a storyteller!. We dive in to the early days of The Jam as punk and new wave hits the US, finding Mark as a student who starts writing about gigs stateside. He then lands a job back home for Record Mirror, reviewing albums and singles, interview bands, musicians, singers and songwriters including Paul Weller in a wonderful interview with the headline of The Jam: Whine, Women and Song in the issue published on 17 July 1982We also dig in to the incredible story of Later… with Jools Holland.Mark is the co-creator and founding producer of the show and of the annual Hootenanny, booking and shaping both for 26 years without missing a single recording. So we hear all about it's creation to it's build into a musical and TV institution.... and so many stories of appearances and collaborations from our podcast subject - Paul Weller...Mark also led the BBC's TV coverage of Glastonbury from a muddy 1997 until a locked down 20020 and executive producer over 250 BBC music documentaries including the Britannia and America strands and the year-by-year Top of the Pops histories. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
Released:
May 9, 2023
Format:
Podcast episode
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