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Speaker 1: The podcast Playground on Buds Night. I'm the next Taking

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Speaker 1: a Walk podcast. Welcome, Gilbert oh Sullivan. What motivated you

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Speaker 1: to start writing songs? Two things. One one had the

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Speaker 1: piano and the garden shed and stuff. And because of

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Speaker 1: the Beatles arriving in sixty two with Love Me Do

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Speaker 1: and then Please Please Mate, we all wanted to be

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Speaker 1: in the band, so that started it off. And then

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Speaker 1: I was in a school band, then a youth club band,

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Speaker 1: then a more serious band, and it's during that period

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Speaker 1: I started to write. The big influences were Lendon McCartney

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Speaker 1: for songwriting, Bacarack and David Daffening came Sadaka Greenfield, all

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Speaker 1: the great songwriting teams, and of course from a voice

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Speaker 1: point of view, Bob Dinner was a huge influence because

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Speaker 1: I don't have a great voice, but I do have

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Speaker 1: I think, a distinctive voice, and he certainly had a

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Speaker 1: distinctive one. So they the combination of being influenced by

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Speaker 1: Lendon mccarne and then being influence vocally by about doing.

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Speaker 1: If you heard some of my early demos were the

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Speaker 1: mid sixties, you probably understand where that influence was going.

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Speaker 1: That's next time I'm taking a walk,