WEBVTT 00:00:01.550 --> 00:00:05.990 And now here they are, Nick and Sue on Chatterbox. 00:00:06.129 --> 00:00:09.550 When the stars talk, they talk to Nick and Sue. 00:00:29.839 --> 00:00:32.159 Hello there and welcome back to the Chatterbox 00:00:32.159 --> 00:00:35.340 Redux podcast with Nick and Sue and today our 00:00:35.340 --> 00:00:58.250 special guest is Marty Wild. Nick and Sue are 00:00:58.250 --> 00:01:01.229 chatterbox giving you all you need to know about 00:01:01.229 --> 00:01:23.030 musical entertainment. Oh yeah! Chatterbox! And 00:01:23.030 --> 00:01:25.530 now in Chatterbox UK, we're just lucky enough 00:01:25.530 --> 00:01:28.750 to welcome back Marty Wilde. Marty, how are you? 00:01:28.950 --> 00:01:31.810 Welcome again. Hello, Marty. Thank you. Hello 00:01:31.810 --> 00:01:37.769 to you too. Lovely to see you. Marty, last time 00:01:37.769 --> 00:01:40.109 we spoke, it was lockdown. And you were saying 00:01:40.109 --> 00:01:43.810 what you were planning, you know, for when it 00:01:43.810 --> 00:01:45.650 actually got back to normal and you could turn 00:01:45.650 --> 00:01:48.689 and do things again. Quite a lot's happened since. 00:01:48.790 --> 00:01:52.810 And now you've got a new release you've also 00:01:52.810 --> 00:01:56.909 undertaking or just about to undertake a massive 00:01:56.909 --> 00:02:00.849 tour and that's to celebrate your 85th birthday. 00:02:02.069 --> 00:02:06.030 Yes, yeah it's still a busy time for me which 00:02:06.030 --> 00:02:10.469 is unusual for a man of my years to be doing 00:02:10.469 --> 00:02:13.370 all that work but I love it you know I just love 00:02:13.370 --> 00:02:16.449 this industry and I love I love making music 00:02:16.449 --> 00:02:19.530 and I love my tours, I love working, I really 00:02:19.530 --> 00:02:22.310 enjoy that. Stage work in particular, obviously. 00:02:22.810 --> 00:02:25.370 And recording, I mean, writing and, you know, 00:02:25.689 --> 00:02:27.330 the whole thing, the whole package, I'm very 00:02:27.330 --> 00:02:30.569 lucky. Even down to driving to the shows, I adore 00:02:30.569 --> 00:02:34.349 driving, and I love travelling. I get it always, 00:02:34.509 --> 00:02:39.210 you know, the only time it gets tough is sometimes... 00:02:39.069 --> 00:02:40.909 If you're getting home around about three in 00:02:40.909 --> 00:02:43.110 the morning and you're driving, then you start 00:02:43.110 --> 00:02:45.189 feeling a bit sorry for yourself. You get tired. 00:02:45.270 --> 00:02:48.129 But other than that, I feel great. Well, it's 00:02:48.129 --> 00:02:50.169 not like it's anything new to you, is it? You've 00:02:50.169 --> 00:02:52.770 been doing it a very long time. Just great, is 00:02:52.770 --> 00:02:55.509 it? I started to work out when your first hit 00:02:55.509 --> 00:03:00.789 was, was it 1957? So we are. I started in 57. 00:03:01.110 --> 00:03:04.669 I think 58 was my first hit, but I started in 00:03:04.669 --> 00:03:08.960 57. It's been a lot of years. It's over 60, I 00:03:08.960 --> 00:03:12.060 know that much. It's fantastic. I see, I was 00:03:12.060 --> 00:03:15.020 just going through the hits that you've had and 00:03:15.020 --> 00:03:17.699 towards the end, you brought out, I was looking 00:03:17.699 --> 00:03:20.800 in the USA, of course, Bad Boy, which you paint 00:03:20.800 --> 00:03:24.580 yourself, got in the top 50 there. And then I 00:03:24.580 --> 00:03:26.919 just looked down and Abba Goveni, which didn't 00:03:26.919 --> 00:03:30.139 do much, that became a hit in the USA as well, 00:03:30.400 --> 00:03:34.370 67 time, I think it was. You are known there, 00:03:34.389 --> 00:03:37.710 so that's pretty cool. And of course, not only 00:03:37.710 --> 00:03:40.610 in your name as an artist, of course, you've 00:03:40.610 --> 00:03:43.449 also known in America, of course, for penning 00:03:43.449 --> 00:03:49.229 or co -penning songs for Kim. Yeah, we had a... 00:03:49.229 --> 00:03:52.430 And particularly in Europe as well. Europe was 00:03:52.430 --> 00:03:55.789 our big stronghold, really. The UK and Europe. 00:03:56.469 --> 00:03:59.750 For Kim's records, it was great. It was terrific. 00:04:00.920 --> 00:04:04.740 Kim had a top 20, I think her number 12 was turn 00:04:04.740 --> 00:04:07.120 off or something like that for kids in America. 00:04:08.520 --> 00:04:11.439 But then she had number one with you keep hanging 00:04:11.439 --> 00:04:14.960 on. So but the thing is, you know, if you're 00:04:14.960 --> 00:04:16.560 going to do all that, you've got to go over to 00:04:16.560 --> 00:04:19.259 America, you've got to work really hard. At that 00:04:19.259 --> 00:04:22.079 point, there were other things going on and Kim 00:04:22.079 --> 00:04:24.779 didn't have the time to get out there. You really 00:04:24.779 --> 00:04:26.790 got to. If you're going to be a hit in America, 00:04:26.930 --> 00:04:29.009 you've got to really dedicate yourself out there 00:04:29.009 --> 00:04:31.930 for a while. And we couldn't do that, which was 00:04:31.930 --> 00:04:34.529 a shame in a way. But I think Kim's happier, 00:04:34.790 --> 00:04:37.529 to be honest with you, having just the European 00:04:37.529 --> 00:04:41.509 market and the UK market is big enough, I tell 00:04:41.509 --> 00:04:44.591 you. It's hard work because she's just been... 00:04:44.589 --> 00:04:46.889 She's been working all over the place. She works 00:04:46.889 --> 00:04:50.310 every European country you can think of. They 00:04:50.310 --> 00:04:53.149 love her there. So it's lovely that she's got 00:04:53.149 --> 00:04:55.449 those markets. But it is hard work. And I think 00:04:55.449 --> 00:04:59.870 America is particularly hard work. I'm not sure 00:04:59.870 --> 00:05:04.370 I could handle it myself personally. I don't 00:05:04.370 --> 00:05:06.810 know. I just think it was great with you as a 00:05:06.810 --> 00:05:10.069 songwriter. You've written some great songs over 00:05:10.069 --> 00:05:13.089 the years and it's brilliant to see that when 00:05:13.089 --> 00:05:15.329 you weren't recording yourself, and I don't know 00:05:15.329 --> 00:05:17.470 if you do much touring the early 80s, but it 00:05:17.470 --> 00:05:19.970 was great that you could be writing the songs 00:05:19.970 --> 00:05:22.009 for Kim. That was great. Keep it in the family. 00:05:22.829 --> 00:05:46.800 Very good. But I have got a fax here. that the 00:05:46.800 --> 00:05:50.519 I'm just one of those sort of guys who just keeps 00:05:50.519 --> 00:05:52.980 working and keeps his head down and trying to 00:05:52.980 --> 00:05:56.680 do his best. I mean, it's a nice thing, but I 00:05:56.680 --> 00:06:02.180 don't think about it too much. But nevertheless, 00:06:02.839 --> 00:06:06.160 it's an honor. It's very sweet, very nice. Nice 00:06:06.160 --> 00:06:09.019 for the people to remember as well. It's just 00:06:09.019 --> 00:06:12.379 brilliant. Now, we've got this single. We have 00:06:12.379 --> 00:06:16.110 already played it once on our Sunday show. week 00:06:16.110 --> 00:06:20.629 back. But yes, Two Eyes Streaming has released 00:06:20.629 --> 00:06:23.370 officially released on the 19th of April, and 00:06:23.370 --> 00:06:26.790 this is a release to celebrate your 85th birthday 00:06:26.790 --> 00:06:30.149 the same week. So tell us about that song. Why 00:06:30.149 --> 00:06:33.910 did you choose that? What's the meaning of the 00:06:33.910 --> 00:06:38.689 song to you? What is the idea was really the 00:06:38.689 --> 00:06:43.069 basis of the story of the song was somebody leaving 00:06:43.069 --> 00:06:48.009 you know a child and a woman or maybe you know. 00:06:49.269 --> 00:06:52.069 Yeah the child woman at the key side and the 00:06:52.069 --> 00:06:54.310 guys on a boat or submarine always going away 00:06:54.310 --> 00:06:57.660 on a plane. saying goodbye and saying that i 00:06:57.660 --> 00:07:00.199 will be back don't worry you know don't don't 00:07:00.199 --> 00:07:02.680 stand there crying all the time you know i will 00:07:02.680 --> 00:07:06.319 be back and things will come back to normal and 00:07:06.319 --> 00:07:09.740 they'll be peace again you know it's a. it's 00:07:09.740 --> 00:07:13.459 um yeah it's kind of it's like virulins will 00:07:13.459 --> 00:07:16.279 meet again but in a more modern idiom because 00:07:16.279 --> 00:07:18.540 he's going to come back and he's going to write 00:07:18.540 --> 00:07:22.240 letters and i might have got that wrong i'm not 00:07:22.240 --> 00:07:25.079 sure if anyone's abroad these days like in in 00:07:25.079 --> 00:07:27.420 the services that they do write letters i'm not 00:07:27.420 --> 00:07:31.079 sure whether they email or they do it that way 00:07:31.079 --> 00:07:34.120 anymore probably messenger or something i don't 00:07:34.120 --> 00:07:38.120 know yeah they should write nothing more special 00:07:38.120 --> 00:07:41.639 than a letter though of course but yeah um okay 00:07:41.639 --> 00:07:44.139 now do you have an interest uh with this tour 00:07:44.139 --> 00:07:47.279 you've got coming up is that the song that two 00:07:47.279 --> 00:07:49.220 eyes streaming is that the song that you finished 00:07:49.220 --> 00:07:51.439 with like a little bit of tongue in cheek that 00:07:51.439 --> 00:07:55.519 you'll be back again perhaps no no we no we we 00:07:55.519 --> 00:07:58.040 we funny enough we do it after um we do it after 00:07:58.040 --> 00:08:01.040 bad boy which was the very first hit um that 00:08:01.040 --> 00:08:07.430 i ever had uh as a writer with that was way back 00:08:07.430 --> 00:08:13.750 in 1959 I think and so we use that as like to 00:08:13.750 --> 00:08:16.129 balance on someone here's what I'm writing now 00:08:16.129 --> 00:08:18.910 it's one of the latest songs you know and because 00:08:18.910 --> 00:08:22.129 I've been non -stop writing really for quite 00:08:22.129 --> 00:08:27.389 some time now since well since really since the 00:08:27.389 --> 00:08:30.529 80s. I never paid a lot of attention to writing. 00:08:30.930 --> 00:08:33.610 I was writing hits without paying attention to 00:08:33.610 --> 00:08:36.269 being a writer. I was always doing other things. 00:08:36.490 --> 00:08:38.129 And I think, oh, I need a song. OK, I'll write 00:08:38.129 --> 00:08:42.850 this or whatever. But I thought with Kim's career, 00:08:42.950 --> 00:08:45.669 I started to concentrate a lot more on writing. 00:08:50.049 --> 00:08:53.190 I concentrated on writing lyrics and stories. 00:08:53.230 --> 00:08:57.460 I wanted to write stories. that's been something 00:08:57.460 --> 00:09:00.279 i've really enjoyed doing as well over the years 00:09:00.279 --> 00:09:03.620 bad boy was an amazing song though that was a 00:09:03.620 --> 00:09:06.379 great uh great one to have a first hit with and 00:09:06.379 --> 00:09:09.179 uh i remember asking you some years ago you probably 00:09:09.179 --> 00:09:11.840 thought i was being silly for asking it but i 00:09:11.840 --> 00:09:13.539 was like of course you've been happy about it 00:09:13.539 --> 00:09:16.960 all the way through which is amazing uh i have 00:09:16.960 --> 00:09:19.419 to ask you what the secret is sometime but uh 00:09:19.419 --> 00:09:23.679 sorry love that um it's uh very much a case of 00:09:23.679 --> 00:09:27.500 I remember asking you was that a from a personal 00:09:27.500 --> 00:09:30.240 experience said no no I just felt like writing 00:09:30.240 --> 00:09:33.779 it and then what a great song it was. It still 00:09:33.779 --> 00:09:35.879 sounds good to this day, it really does, I love 00:09:35.879 --> 00:09:38.460 it. Well, you have to, when you're writing lyrics, 00:09:38.600 --> 00:09:43.740 you know, sometimes I was listening to one of 00:09:43.740 --> 00:09:47.059 Tim Rice's lyrics, I Don't Know How To Love Him 00:09:47.059 --> 00:09:49.679 Today, which is from Jesus Christ Superstar. 00:09:50.799 --> 00:09:52.360 And of course, you see, you're a man putting 00:09:52.360 --> 00:09:56.720 yourself in the place of a woman, really, in 00:09:56.720 --> 00:10:00.840 that sort of idiom there. And I was always... 00:10:00.879 --> 00:10:03.399 trying to put myself in a place of what Kim would 00:10:03.399 --> 00:10:05.899 be, you know, what a woman would be thinking 00:10:05.899 --> 00:10:09.360 for when Kim sang the lyrics. And sometimes I 00:10:09.360 --> 00:10:12.220 never found it difficult, but it is a rather 00:10:12.220 --> 00:10:15.179 strange thing. You know, I write lyrics for men, 00:10:15.320 --> 00:10:18.440 but I'm happier writing lyrics for women, I think. 00:10:18.639 --> 00:10:32.710 Must be myself to touch. And of course, just 00:10:32.710 --> 00:10:35.629 a reminder, of course, you have written hits 00:10:35.629 --> 00:10:38.669 for other people other than Kim, of course. And 00:10:38.669 --> 00:10:41.370 of course, one that comes to mind that may be 00:10:41.370 --> 00:10:45.289 overlooked is, of course, Jessamine by The Casuals. 00:10:45.590 --> 00:10:51.029 Yeah, Jessamine was a sweet song. I didn't think 00:10:51.029 --> 00:10:55.230 when we first demoed it, you know, all those 00:10:55.230 --> 00:10:57.289 years ago, I didn't think, I thought, well, it's 00:10:57.289 --> 00:11:01.000 a bit off the wall. It was a bit different to 00:11:01.000 --> 00:11:02.759 some of the other songs that were out at the 00:11:02.759 --> 00:11:05.399 time, and I thought, well, it won't make it, 00:11:05.559 --> 00:11:08.279 but never mind, let's just do it anyway because 00:11:08.279 --> 00:11:11.860 it's good fun. The bystanders recorded it, a 00:11:11.860 --> 00:11:14.220 Welsh group, a very fine Welsh group, and they 00:11:14.220 --> 00:11:17.470 did a brilliant version of it. It didn't hit. 00:11:17.610 --> 00:11:21.169 It didn't have that commercial sound that the 00:11:21.169 --> 00:11:25.190 casuals had. The casuals took it to another level, 00:11:25.190 --> 00:11:27.769 really. It's certainly in commerciality. Well, 00:11:28.009 --> 00:11:30.629 yeah, it stalled at number two, after all. So 00:11:30.629 --> 00:11:35.070 that's pretty good. You know, it was. Are you 00:11:35.070 --> 00:11:37.389 still I see you have had number ones in other 00:11:37.389 --> 00:11:40.590 countries, but are you still after that elusive 00:11:40.590 --> 00:11:46.519 number one in the UK? I think anyone, any writer 00:11:46.519 --> 00:11:50.899 would love to have a number one. I mean, but 00:11:50.899 --> 00:11:53.080 I'd be, you know, I'm happy, right? If I could 00:11:53.080 --> 00:11:55.600 get a top 10 or something like that, you know, 00:11:55.600 --> 00:11:58.519 I'm happy as a writer. It's very difficult. And 00:11:58.519 --> 00:12:01.200 I mean, now there are so many markets, you know, 00:12:01.200 --> 00:12:03.259 there are different charts, different things. 00:12:03.639 --> 00:12:07.320 And I see one chart and it will say that a certain 00:12:07.320 --> 00:12:11.259 artist is number one. And then I look at another 00:12:11.259 --> 00:12:15.840 one. I don't know what to believe in the end. 00:12:16.879 --> 00:12:20.000 I know there's vinyl, there's charts taking everything, 00:12:20.440 --> 00:12:22.700 there's downloads only, there's this chart, that 00:12:22.700 --> 00:12:25.240 chart, I know you're quite right, heritage charts 00:12:25.240 --> 00:12:29.159 and fab charts, yeah you're quite right. I'm 00:12:29.159 --> 00:12:31.600 in heritage charts, that I do know. Brilliant, 00:12:31.919 --> 00:12:35.090 fantastic. Let's hope we can get you in the CBUK 00:12:35.090 --> 00:12:37.210 Airplay Chart as well, that'd be good. I'm sure 00:12:37.210 --> 00:12:40.230 you will make it there as well. Sue, before we, 00:12:40.450 --> 00:12:41.990 we are going to just talk about your tour in 00:12:41.990 --> 00:12:43.730 a second, Marty, but have you got anything to 00:12:43.730 --> 00:12:46.110 ask Marty? Not at the moment. He's not going 00:12:46.110 --> 00:12:49.590 to be around for long. Question I have, can we 00:12:49.590 --> 00:12:52.620 go and see? Go to East Grinstead. We can go to 00:12:52.620 --> 00:12:55.200 East Grinstead and see Marty. We can't. You heard 00:12:55.200 --> 00:12:56.860 that, didn't you? We're going to see you in East 00:12:56.860 --> 00:12:59.220 Grinstead, apparently, Marty. So there you go. 00:13:01.000 --> 00:13:04.419 Right. Marty, it's great, sir. It has already 00:13:04.419 --> 00:13:08.440 started. But by the time this goes out. We are 00:13:08.440 --> 00:13:10.820 going to be looking at 24th of March, Browrie 00:13:10.820 --> 00:13:16.120 Hill Civic Hall, 31st of March, New Theatre Peterborough. 00:13:16.460 --> 00:13:20.559 Yes, so we come along to the show in East Grinstead. 00:13:21.460 --> 00:13:23.940 What can we expect? Have we got a warm -up group 00:13:23.940 --> 00:13:26.559 or is it you doing a concert with a break in 00:13:26.559 --> 00:13:31.990 the middle? It's just me and my band, the Wildcats, 00:13:32.490 --> 00:13:34.769 been with me a long time, over 40 years some 00:13:34.769 --> 00:13:39.110 of them, and so it's just us. We do both halves, 00:13:39.490 --> 00:13:43.210 the first half and second half, and it's just 00:13:43.210 --> 00:13:47.200 a lovely show. It's a very warm show. It's a 00:13:47.200 --> 00:13:49.440 fun show we don't take ourselves too seriously. 00:13:49.940 --> 00:13:52.240 I'm not trying to be a big idol anymore I'm not 00:13:52.240 --> 00:13:54.220 trying to have to live up to things I just get 00:13:54.220 --> 00:13:56.720 out there and I talk to them like I'm talking 00:13:56.720 --> 00:13:59.940 to you in it I say whatever comes into my mind 00:13:59.940 --> 00:14:05.000 now that's dangerous sometimes but I do say my 00:14:05.000 --> 00:14:10.480 mind and sometimes the audience are like, I think 00:14:10.480 --> 00:14:13.860 they, I remember one comment, I won't say the 00:14:13.860 --> 00:14:16.460 line, but I said a line and the audience actually 00:14:16.460 --> 00:14:19.379 gasped. I thought, Marty, you've come too far, 00:14:19.659 --> 00:14:22.379 mate, you've come too far, stop that, stop that. 00:14:22.899 --> 00:14:25.679 But I do say what comes into my head, but I've 00:14:25.679 --> 00:14:27.970 wanted to... feel that kind of freedom and I 00:14:27.970 --> 00:14:30.190 wanted it to be genuine I didn't want to come 00:14:30.190 --> 00:14:33.309 out on stage in a big I mean I come out in a 00:14:33.309 --> 00:14:35.950 flash jacket but that's what you do this part 00:14:35.950 --> 00:14:38.090 of my and I love all that it's rock and roll 00:14:38.090 --> 00:14:40.590 it's not you know it's not church meeting so 00:14:40.590 --> 00:14:42.850 I thought okay we're rock and roll jacket but 00:14:42.850 --> 00:14:46.389 I'd have to talk to people naturally and and 00:14:46.389 --> 00:14:49.149 say things that are natural not you know not 00:14:49.149 --> 00:14:53.840 hide things you know you know people i like to 00:14:53.840 --> 00:14:58.240 be open on stage very open and um and i hope 00:14:58.240 --> 00:15:01.519 that comes across to people i want honesty i 00:15:01.519 --> 00:15:04.360 want an honesty in my show and that's fun honesty 00:15:04.360 --> 00:15:07.240 don't get me wrong i laugh at myself and my age 00:15:07.240 --> 00:15:09.320 and all the silly things that happens to people 00:15:09.320 --> 00:15:12.100 when they get to my age but it's fun you know 00:15:12.100 --> 00:15:14.820 it's it is there's a great humoring in getting 00:15:14.820 --> 00:15:18.159 older and if you but not many people can look 00:15:18.159 --> 00:15:21.309 at it and laugh but i do Some of the things that 00:15:21.309 --> 00:15:24.950 happen to me, you know, if your legs are getting 00:15:24.950 --> 00:15:27.730 stiff or whatever, you know, and you can't do 00:15:27.730 --> 00:15:30.629 the things you used to do, sometimes I just have 00:15:30.629 --> 00:15:35.190 to smile. And so I don't take it too seriously 00:15:35.190 --> 00:15:38.230 because I've been lucky to come this far. That's 00:15:38.230 --> 00:15:40.559 the way I view it. Well, fantastic. And I want 00:15:40.559 --> 00:15:43.139 to be talking to you when you've had your ninth 00:15:43.139 --> 00:15:47.279 decade of hits. So don't you go anywhere. I know 00:15:47.279 --> 00:15:49.740 you'll go as long as you can. And let's just 00:15:49.740 --> 00:15:52.100 wish that to happen. That'd be wonderful, I tell 00:15:52.100 --> 00:15:55.740 you. Let's ask you about your new song now. Going 00:15:55.740 --> 00:15:58.080 back, I think, am I right in saying that your 00:15:58.080 --> 00:16:02.590 son Rick was producing? Kim's songs, is that 00:16:02.590 --> 00:16:07.690 right? Yes, he still does. He's producing your 00:16:07.690 --> 00:16:09.590 songs now when you bring something out, is he? 00:16:09.990 --> 00:16:13.990 No, we split apart. Kim and Rick went one way 00:16:13.990 --> 00:16:16.870 and I went the other. And it was a good thing 00:16:16.870 --> 00:16:21.919 in a way because I didn't want to... sort of, 00:16:22.220 --> 00:16:25.200 you know, like, keep appearing on one of Kim's 00:16:25.200 --> 00:16:29.059 shows or appearing, you know, in her shows on 00:16:29.059 --> 00:16:30.940 stage. It wouldn't be fair. You know, she's got 00:16:30.940 --> 00:16:34.000 her career. And I like her to keep this separate. 00:16:34.279 --> 00:16:38.080 She comes on a few of my shows sometimes. The 00:16:38.080 --> 00:16:40.340 odd one once in a while, maybe twice a year, 00:16:40.440 --> 00:16:42.299 once a year, she'll come out on one of my shows 00:16:42.299 --> 00:16:46.320 and we sing together. We enjoy that. But by and 00:16:46.320 --> 00:16:47.960 large, I wanted her to have a separate career. 00:16:48.240 --> 00:16:53.720 So Rick still produces and works with Kim. I 00:16:53.720 --> 00:16:57.029 envy them a lot because they... Recently they've 00:16:57.029 --> 00:16:59.549 been touring all over Europe and I've been to 00:16:59.549 --> 00:17:03.230 Holland, Sweden, Germany, France. They were in 00:17:03.230 --> 00:17:06.029 Paris. Well, I love Paris as a city. I'd love 00:17:06.029 --> 00:17:09.549 to work there as well, but I'm not known in Paris, 00:17:09.609 --> 00:17:13.390 of course, but Kim is and she had a great, great 00:17:13.390 --> 00:17:17.309 night there. So, you know, it's it's it. We keep 00:17:17.309 --> 00:17:21.450 our careers two ways, two very separate and it's 00:17:21.450 --> 00:17:23.670 good, I think. That's brilliant. And I do know 00:17:23.670 --> 00:17:25.769 that, you know, you said sometimes she comes 00:17:25.769 --> 00:17:28.369 on the show with you. I have spoken to you in 00:17:28.369 --> 00:17:31.220 recent years, I know where. Kim did some backing 00:17:31.220 --> 00:17:33.140 for you. Was it a Christmas song or something 00:17:33.140 --> 00:17:36.640 a while back? Yeah, it was. I remember having 00:17:36.640 --> 00:17:38.799 Roxanne on the show and chatting to her. It was 00:17:38.799 --> 00:17:41.579 really great fun, that was, to meet her as well. 00:17:41.960 --> 00:17:44.960 So just looking also, the songwriting, we have 00:17:44.960 --> 00:17:47.140 mentioned that before, but just for the sake 00:17:47.140 --> 00:17:49.480 of the listeners here, you've written things 00:17:49.480 --> 00:17:54.180 for Status Quo, Lulu, No Patrol, Tom Jones, Hot 00:17:54.180 --> 00:17:57.390 Chocolate, so brilliant. Absolutely brilliant. 00:17:58.130 --> 00:18:00.190 I and hopefully there's there's many more artists 00:18:00.190 --> 00:18:01.650 will take and there's no reason why they won't 00:18:01.650 --> 00:18:03.549 take your songs and but yeah I didn't know about 00:18:03.549 --> 00:18:07.750 status choir or snow patrol. So fantastic stuff. 00:18:07.930 --> 00:18:11.490 Well they they what happens there is artists 00:18:11.490 --> 00:18:14.349 pick up sometimes they pick up your song they'll 00:18:14.349 --> 00:18:18.750 hear a song and and I used to I go under a pseudo 00:18:18.750 --> 00:18:21.130 name on some of my sometimes I do in the old 00:18:21.130 --> 00:18:24.269 days in particular I never went under Marty Wilde 00:18:24.269 --> 00:18:26.750 because it was too otherwise people would never 00:18:26.750 --> 00:18:28.769 have cut jesamine they would have said oh you 00:18:28.769 --> 00:18:31.369 know he's he's he's a rock and roll singer what's 00:18:31.369 --> 00:18:33.710 this you know he can't write he doesn't write 00:18:33.710 --> 00:18:36.630 the stuff like this you know and i and i so i 00:18:36.630 --> 00:18:40.390 like to keep that side That kind of shy it's 00:18:40.390 --> 00:18:43.769 a shy way of approaching music as those but it 00:18:43.769 --> 00:18:46.890 also is the best because otherwise people people 00:18:46.890 --> 00:18:49.390 are inclined to put you into a box you know box 00:18:49.390 --> 00:18:52.029 and that's what you are and i'm not i'm not in 00:18:52.029 --> 00:18:55.069 that box i don't i never have been i never have 00:18:55.069 --> 00:18:59.130 been with music my choice in music is eclectic 00:18:59.130 --> 00:19:01.779 i. I love, you know, spend a lot of time listening 00:19:01.779 --> 00:19:04.539 to classical music. And so it's not just, you 00:19:04.539 --> 00:19:08.460 know, there again, I can listen to Elvis or Carl 00:19:08.460 --> 00:19:10.619 Perkins singing rock and roll and totally love 00:19:10.619 --> 00:19:15.940 it. But I do like to mix my music up. You know, 00:19:16.019 --> 00:19:20.339 I still watch the American charts, the top 50, 00:19:20.759 --> 00:19:25.940 and I watch the UK top. uh 50 as well so um but 00:19:25.940 --> 00:19:28.960 yeah so i'm still i'm still interested in music 00:19:28.960 --> 00:19:42.880 in all forms fantastic what did you think going 00:19:42.880 --> 00:19:46.480 way back when you were given the name the stage 00:19:46.480 --> 00:19:48.500 name Marty Wilde. Did you think what's this or 00:19:48.500 --> 00:19:52.119 did you like it straight away? It was great. 00:19:53.660 --> 00:19:55.920 A manager gave that to you. I think he was in 00:19:55.920 --> 00:19:58.019 charge of a whole load of you and Mark Winter 00:19:58.019 --> 00:20:00.460 was there so he called him Mark Winter and you 00:20:00.460 --> 00:20:03.559 Marty Wilde. What did you think when you first 00:20:03.559 --> 00:20:05.099 given that name? Did you like the sound of it? 00:20:05.559 --> 00:20:09.259 No, I didn't. I thought it was Marty sounding 00:20:09.259 --> 00:20:14.109 like some red -faced American schoolboy. sucking 00:20:14.109 --> 00:20:16.210 an ice lolly, you know, and I thought, no, no, 00:20:16.210 --> 00:20:20.329 that's not me. And wild, well, you know, I thought, 00:20:20.490 --> 00:20:23.210 well, yeah, sometimes, you know, there is a wild 00:20:23.210 --> 00:20:26.230 side to me, no question of that, I guess. I was 00:20:26.230 --> 00:20:29.089 doing this with everyone, but the Marty side 00:20:29.089 --> 00:20:32.289 I didn't like. And then around about, oh, about 00:20:32.289 --> 00:20:36.009 three months. three months into my career I saw 00:20:36.009 --> 00:20:38.089 there was a hoarding and it had my and and I 00:20:38.089 --> 00:20:41.869 was a very I was put onto one of the bills as 00:20:41.869 --> 00:20:44.829 because I was beginning starting off and it said 00:20:44.829 --> 00:20:48.089 and an early appearance of Marty well I looked 00:20:48.089 --> 00:20:50.650 at the on the billing and I thought wow it looks 00:20:50.650 --> 00:20:54.190 pretty good actually it was better than Reg Reg 00:20:54.190 --> 00:20:56.549 Patterson which was what the name I was going 00:20:56.549 --> 00:21:03.289 under oh And so, you know, it was like Elton 00:21:03.289 --> 00:21:07.369 John and Reg, you know, he was a Reg and they 00:21:07.369 --> 00:21:10.170 changed him to Elton. So it was a good move, 00:21:10.210 --> 00:21:14.190 no question. And my father found it difficult 00:21:14.190 --> 00:21:17.390 all those years ago. I think he must have wondered 00:21:17.390 --> 00:21:19.789 what the hell was happening. But my mother took 00:21:19.789 --> 00:21:23.470 to it immediately. And within a few days, I didn't 00:21:23.470 --> 00:21:26.369 hear the word Reg. I just said, Marty, there's 00:21:26.369 --> 00:21:30.500 a phone call. Oh, wow. really well it's done 00:21:30.500 --> 00:21:34.859 you no harm has it so uh we'll let you go in 00:21:34.859 --> 00:21:37.039 just a moment and uh give Sue a chance if she 00:21:37.039 --> 00:21:38.660 wants to ask you something that's one another 00:21:38.660 --> 00:21:42.680 question about the marty wild thing the all these 00:21:42.680 --> 00:21:45.619 years on do you like when you finish with me 00:21:45.619 --> 00:21:48.240 do you go back to being yourself and you just 00:21:48.240 --> 00:21:50.720 become marty well to speak to me or or you go 00:21:50.720 --> 00:21:53.740 on that stage and you become marty wild and can 00:21:53.740 --> 00:21:56.579 you keep the two parts parts of your life separate 00:21:56.579 --> 00:21:59.430 is that it's too easy Yeah, I do. I do. I've 00:21:59.430 --> 00:22:03.410 managed to do that for a number of years. You 00:22:03.410 --> 00:22:07.190 know, all my friends, it's never mentioned. I 00:22:07.190 --> 00:22:10.289 don't talk about none of my friends, none of 00:22:10.289 --> 00:22:13.450 my close friends, apart from my family, know 00:22:13.450 --> 00:22:15.789 anything about my work, my songs or anything. 00:22:16.230 --> 00:22:18.150 And sometimes they'll say, oh, we saw you in 00:22:18.150 --> 00:22:22.069 the paper. and I just shrug you know because 00:22:22.069 --> 00:22:25.490 it's best to and it's best that way as well I 00:22:25.490 --> 00:22:28.789 don't want you know all my friends treat me just 00:22:28.789 --> 00:22:31.450 you know like some ordinary boring bloke you 00:22:31.450 --> 00:22:34.410 know which you can all be at times so you know 00:22:34.410 --> 00:22:37.829 and I'm very happy that way the only time I change 00:22:37.829 --> 00:22:41.549 is on the day of a show when I once I started 00:22:41.549 --> 00:22:44.170 getting ready and I'm and I go out that starting 00:22:44.170 --> 00:22:47.410 to go out the door I'm Marty Wild And from then 00:22:47.410 --> 00:22:49.809 on in, right the way through till after that 00:22:49.809 --> 00:22:53.970 show, when I get in the car and going home, gradually 00:22:53.970 --> 00:22:58.470 I'm coming down into being a reg again, you know. 00:22:59.589 --> 00:23:02.390 But up to that point, I'm a pure Marty Wild on 00:23:02.390 --> 00:23:04.970 that particular moment of those days when I need 00:23:04.970 --> 00:23:07.309 it, you know. But you've got to keep the two 00:23:07.309 --> 00:23:10.289 separate. Otherwise, this business could drive 00:23:10.289 --> 00:23:11.890 you around the bend. If you start taking yourself 00:23:11.890 --> 00:23:14.730 seriously, you'll end up in a psychiatric ward. 00:23:14.869 --> 00:23:17.869 You know, you've got to... You've got to remember 00:23:17.869 --> 00:23:22.470 who you are, where you came from, and how good 00:23:22.470 --> 00:23:25.049 you are and how bad you are. You've got to analyze 00:23:25.049 --> 00:23:31.170 it. I have to constantly remember as well how 00:23:31.170 --> 00:23:36.829 lucky I am. Near me, there's a gentleman who's 00:23:36.829 --> 00:23:40.589 been very handicapped. I often see him, and when 00:23:40.589 --> 00:23:44.049 I do, I'll be driving down, I'll see this man 00:23:44.049 --> 00:23:47.710 in the shop sometimes, And it makes me think, 00:23:47.849 --> 00:23:50.450 Marty, you'd stop moaning and don't you dare 00:23:50.450 --> 00:23:53.450 moan anymore today and how lucky you are, you 00:23:53.450 --> 00:23:56.690 know, so. Well, I thank you. There's not many 00:23:56.690 --> 00:23:58.710 people we have the opportunity to ask something 00:23:58.710 --> 00:24:00.910 like that. And I really appreciate you sharing 00:24:00.910 --> 00:24:02.809 that with us. That's brilliant. Thank you, Marty. 00:24:03.150 --> 00:24:04.750 Have you got a question for Marty before we let 00:24:04.750 --> 00:24:07.269 him go? Yes, Marty, where would you like to be 00:24:07.269 --> 00:24:10.549 in two years time? Where I'd like to be in two 00:24:10.549 --> 00:24:15.940 years time, not in a box. We don't want you in 00:24:15.940 --> 00:24:18.259 one. No, I don't want to be I don't want to be 00:24:18.259 --> 00:24:25.799 dust in a little box. I would like to be in all 00:24:25.799 --> 00:24:29.279 honesty. I don't I want to live as long as my 00:24:29.279 --> 00:24:34.650 my good lady without her. I would think I'd be 00:24:34.650 --> 00:24:38.829 a very lonely man so I wouldn't and I wouldn't 00:24:38.829 --> 00:24:41.250 I know I wouldn't enjoy life to its full which 00:24:41.250 --> 00:24:43.369 I can now because she's been such a great asset 00:24:43.369 --> 00:24:48.589 to me so yeah I just want I'll just keep I'd 00:24:48.589 --> 00:24:51.890 like to I'd like to stay around as long as she 00:24:51.890 --> 00:24:54.950 is because we're staying together and maybe we'll 00:24:54.950 --> 00:25:02.109 leave the planet together, who knows. Okay let's 00:25:02.109 --> 00:25:04.609 do the social media bit Marty, you've got a website 00:25:04.609 --> 00:25:11.569 which is www .martywild .com that's www .martywild 00:25:11.569 --> 00:25:16.359 .com if we click on that we can find or the listeners 00:25:16.359 --> 00:25:19.759 can find your dates that are booked so far. I 00:25:19.759 --> 00:25:21.799 appreciate it's being updated all the time as 00:25:21.799 --> 00:25:24.779 new dates are added. And then if we scroll down 00:25:24.779 --> 00:25:27.420 to the bottom, we can find your other social 00:25:27.420 --> 00:25:31.220 media such as Facebook, Twitter, which I still 00:25:31.220 --> 00:25:34.339 can't get used to calling it X. That's there. 00:25:34.480 --> 00:25:37.440 And a little click for your YouTube channel as 00:25:37.440 --> 00:25:39.839 well. So it's all there for people like to go 00:25:39.839 --> 00:25:43.250 and have a look. Marty Wilde, it just leaves 00:25:43.250 --> 00:25:46.269 me to say thank you for chatting about your new 00:25:46.269 --> 00:25:49.029 tour, your new song, and your thoughts as well. 00:25:49.190 --> 00:25:50.789 That means a lot. It's been an honour, Marty, 00:25:50.869 --> 00:25:53.190 and thank you. Take care, Marty. It's my honour. 00:25:53.329 --> 00:25:55.569 Thank you to you and Sue. It's my honour, and 00:25:55.569 --> 00:25:58.650 especially at this time of my life. So thank 00:25:58.650 --> 00:26:01.700 you. Be lucky. Have a great, great show. Thank 00:26:01.700 --> 00:26:03.940 you. And we'll see your links wasted. You just 00:26:03.940 --> 00:26:06.460 keep up the great work. You're a good team. Thank 00:26:06.460 --> 00:27:02.279 you, Marty. Thank you. Take care. Bye -bye. This 00:27:02.279 --> 00:27:05.500 edition of the Chatterbox Redux podcast was presented 00:27:05.500 --> 00:27:08.579 by Nick and Sue. We thank our special guest, 00:27:08.799 --> 00:27:13.039 who was Marty Wild. Our email address is nickelbum 00:27:13.039 --> 00:27:17.880 at myyahoo .com. Alternatively, we have a postal 00:27:17.880 --> 00:27:21.299 address, which is PO Box 26, the old Observer 00:27:21.299 --> 00:27:24.519 Building, Telford Road, St. Leonard's -on -Sea, 00:27:24.720 --> 00:27:30.339 East Sussex, England, TN389LZ. We thank you very 00:27:30.339 --> 00:27:32.759 much for your company and look forward to welcoming 00:27:32.759 --> 00:27:36.240 you again next time for another Chatterbox Redux 00:27:36.240 --> 00:27:39.759 podcast when our guest will be Eden Kane. Catch 00:27:39.759 --> 00:28:33.599 you then. Bye bye. This is Nick and Sue with 00:28:33.599 --> 00:28:36.559 Chatterbox giving you all you need to know about 00:28:36.559 --> 00:28:45.920 musical entertainment Chatterbox the best interviews 00:28:45.920 --> 00:28:50.460 with Nick and Sue the best news