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Nick and today our special guest is Roger Moore's
son, Geoffrey Jaffa Moore. This is Nick and Sue
with Chatterbox giving you all you need to know
about music. My name is Michael Caine, and you
are watching You and I. Now on Shatterbox UK,
we're just lucky enough to welcome Jeffrey Jaffa
Moore Jaffa. Welcome. How are you, sir? I'm very,
very well. How are you? Thank you. Great. Thank
you. And thank you for coming on Shatterbox.
Okay, son of Roger Moore, godson to Frank Sinatra,
and a friend to Hollywood's A -List. And you
brought out a new album, single, and a wonderful
all -star video to go along with it. And I urge
everyone to take a look at that. So, okay. Dad,
great. My favorite, James Bond. So, and I understand
you started in the music business, 1973, which
I think was the year that he became Bond. So...
Tell us all about how you got into it and how
you got to where we are now with this album and
single and so on. In 1985 I got a record deal
with EMI and I worked with Mike Rutherford, Mike
and the Mechanics. Moving forward to present
day, I was writing for an artist at Universal.
and I was sending in the songs with the artist's
notes on it and the, unfortunately, the artist
couldn't show up on a couple of the songs and
so they said, no, no, but send them anyway. I
said, well, there's an engineer that's been doing
a vocal, a guide so that they didn't waste time.
So when they came in, they knew how to pitch
and sort of deliver. the lines. And so he said,
no, we'd like to meet the engineer. So I flew
to London and I said, the engineer is coming.
And then after 10 minutes sitting in the room
with John Cotton from Bright Recordings, Nova
Universal, he said, he said, he's late. I go,
well, actually, it's me. Okay, opposed to writing
for somebody else. Now I'm writing for myself.
And so So now that I'm writing for myself, like
I said, the camera never lies, nor does the microphone.
I feel far more confident and belief in what
I'm singing. I remember singing a long time ago.
And once again, I never call myself a singer.
I sort of come from a movie background, a film
background. I did a film in 75 at Fox with John
Huston. Being a son of an actor doesn't necessarily
make me a good actor. see myself as the singer,
so to speak. So now, yeah, I'm quite happy with
the finished result. So I got up and sang at
some party and someone came up to me and said,
you know, you can really sing, you've got a great
voice. So why don't you do this gig? I'll put
something on and invite some people. And I got
up and I was... sweating the night before, because
I go, oh my goodness, I mean, I really am not
prepared for this. And there are so many people
that are coming to hear me. And I look down in
the audience and there was so -and -so and so
-and -so and so -and -so. And I thought to myself,
I'm really in trouble now. So I've got this sort
of, where I'm really in trouble now when I get
up on stage, but you're in more experience. So
I'll exhalate, but I still have that. that sort
of cloud that lingers, you know, dark cloud that
lingers every time I get up and sing, now that
I'm speaking about it, I'm getting rid of the
curse, so to speak. Well, I guess even when you
did have those pre -stage nerves the night before,
I guess the nerves are really the build -up to
it, because once you're on that stage, and once
that first note, you're singing the first note,
you're there, you're doing it, and surely that
must be fine once you've done that. I would have
thought. What was all the fuss? The issue, you
know, when you get to a sort of certain age,
have you heard the album? No, all I've done is
heard the single so far. Absolutely wonderful.
Of course, it's got the wonderful voice of the
late Naya Riviera on there and Nile Rodgers as
well. So I've heard the single and the single
sounds absolutely amazing. So anyway, let's talk
about it. I mean the the point with Naya Rivera
point with that she passed away I think in 2020
very sad and that so was she going to Release
the song as a single as a solo or were you always
going to do do that with her? Yeah, this was
this was part of My daughter Ambra helped me
produce the video um was watching Glee and I
walked by and I was mesmerized by her uh you
know natural flamboyant um she just had such
a sultry presence and such a beautiful voice
as a god she'd be wonderful because you know
let's face it we're going to make a video but
if someone's hearing on the radio they don't
know what what the girl looks like you can imagine
her voice that she's got to have, there's got
to be, you know, she takes all the right boxes
and her voice was just sensational. And so we
said, right now we have to find a male singer
to sing alongside her. I couldn't find anyone.
So that's why I ended up singing alongside her.
But no, this was part of the project she was
giving her time. And I so wish she was here to
talk about it with me. I know it would be amazing.
rest in peace but left us something very very
special and of course i guess you know where
you've uh where you've written that yourself
you know exactly how it should be sung really
so uh it just works it works as you say very
sad out of interest um silly question you white
jaffa how did you get that nickname in the middle
ah okay great thank you and um talk about the
album What tracks, I mean, do you have a favourite
track from it or do you just love them all in
a different way? I tell you what, I think it's
the mood, I mean. You know, Do I, the first song
on the album is a real opera. There's a bit of
everything. It's rock, it's sort of, you know,
it's a tribute from the 70s where, you know,
live instruments... then eventually became electronic
ones in the eighties. And so the influence of
that and having spent so much time in America
is very much a west coast sound. And I was getting,
you know, there's a bit of Tom Petty, but it
is for fears. And I was thinking, God, these
are wonderful comparisons. I won't, I won't blush.
This is great. But in terms of, you know, the,
the one song I think you and I is that you're
going to have to take that song to the desert
island. I think that's the one you probably could
listen to. more than in the other one, whether
it's the better song. I think across the board,
they're all good enough, if you see what I mean.
I get that. That's hopefully amazing. So yeah,
I'm quite happy and I can't wait. If this thing
really does fly, I can't wait for the second
album because I've improved. I've learnt a lot
from this writing process. And I mean, to put
it all together, it took about a year in total
to sing all the songs. and then sort of seven
year build up to it. And I sort of just didn't
feel I had enough body of work. And then after
COVID, I wrote like 20 different songs on top
of what I've done now. So I know that if this
works, the label are gonna go, all right, number
two, let's go. And so I won't be wasting time
with that. As we say the video as you say in
your press release is a must see and now we've
an all -star lineup Michael Cain, Joan Collins,
Joanna Lumley, Stephen Fry, Liam Neeson, Paris
Hilton they're all there and more and it's just
a great video and if people can get the opportunity
it's on YouTube if you get the opportunity to
see it please do I urge you to it's amazing absolutely
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I appreciate that What's Next could be a second
album, so let's hope this first one does really
really well for you. Now a couple of little stories,
in fact you've got millions of them, in your
press release it says one of your sort of anecdotes
is being stalked by Michael Jackson. Am I allowed
to ask you about that? It's funny how these things
sort of snowball into something. I wasn't really
stalked. I was at an Oscar party that was hosted
by Swifty Lazar, who was one of the greatest
publicists and he basically, I don't know if
you recall, from Nixon and Frost. he put he was
the one that the bridge that interview yes yes
yes yes yes and so uh swifty was it was a pioneer
and he was the only one that that could throw
an after after you know after the oscars the
party and so they had this little restaurant
in in uh in west hollywood called my maison and
on every table a table of maybe 10 there were
maybe seven tables of 10 and on every table there
was four four or five oscars So everyone who
was a recipient or was close to getting it were
invited. And so it was just to see a room of
these gold statues everywhere. And I was the
youngest guy there. I was in a renter tux. That's
how young I was. And I go into the restroom and
he walks in and I look up and I thought to myself,
today, when I look back, I think, goodness, if
I would have had a smartphone. Because no one
would believe me in school, so I just never said
anything. He walked in with a glove and the Carrera
glasses, you know, when he was just, you know,
thriller. And he said, who, you know, hey, what's
going on, man? I said, well, I'm here. My dad
gave an award. Who's your dad? I said, Simon
Templer. And he said, my mother's favorite. Can
I meet him? So I walked across this room and
I noticed that everyone was turning their heads.
So he was definitely a big deal. And I bring
him over to my dad's table and they sit and he
says, Come and have a seat. Nice to meet you,
young man. Come and have a seat. And so thereafter,
we sort of stayed in touch. And then I'm sitting
in Sinatra's dressing room, and Sammy David brings
him in to meet Frank, and Sammy says, Frank,
this is... He goes, yeah, I know who he is. How
you doing, kid? He said, I'm great, Mr. Sinatra.
How are you? I'm fantastic. And I was sitting
on this couch in the corner. And then he turns
and looks at me and goes, hey, Jeff, how's it
going? You should have seen the look on the face
of Sammy Davis and Frank Sinatra. What the heck
did you deserve to be called Jeff, you know,
better than us. Terrific. Terrific. That was
my war hole moment. And one other one. One last
story. You apparently you had your first alcoholic
drink in a Las Vegas casino with Frank Sinatra,
among many others. So, yeah. Yes, yes, I had
five whiskey old fashions and at the time I was,
it wasn't actually in Vegas, it was in the south
of France. in in in monaco very strange flavors
of all places and yes he he kept ordering me
a drink and i just think he was he was testing
me to see how i could handle it on this fifth
drink um i would still like you know tapping
the glass on the table going no problem keep
them coming you know and then by the time i had
my fifth i could barely walk and i felt his his
hand on my shoulder and he said i got you kid
keep walking Lovely. I love that very much. It
was my first experience, yes. Brilliant. So,
Jaffa, okay, let's do your social media stuff
and chuck it all at them now so they can have
a look at you and your website, et cetera, et
cetera, whatever you have. You know what, the
joke is, you know, our generation invented this
technology. I'm the last to know how to use it.
Can I? How do I get this to you? I tell you what,
I can do something. And Jaffer, I see you've
got some social media. So we have a Facebook
profile. That's easy to find. And Twitter is
twitter .com forward slash more Swiss, as in
spelled by L surname, more Swiss. and also instagram
nice and easy to find is instagram .com forward
slash jeffrey moore so a nice social media presence
there so that's the single you and i featuring
uh naya uh rivera uh bless her and niall rogers
and the album is called photograph what else
brilliant Every success, Jaffer, and it's been
an absolute pleasure having you on Chatterbox,
and I'll get a copy of you to hear via your social
media. Okay, sir? Thank you. It's been an absolute
pleasure having you. Thank you so much. Thanks
for having me. Thank you. Cheers. Bye -bye. Bye
-bye. Bye. My name is Michael Caine, and you
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