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Neil gave an interview to GMTV
at the beginning of 1996.
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show began with footage from Love At TheGreek |
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Details were
given about Neil's Tennessee Moon album |
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| Sol was there with Neil in the studio | |
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The interviewer, Sally Eden, remarked that many of the songs on the album were clearly very personal to Neil. Neil replied - You can get pretty heavily into it - it's kinda like a psychiatrist's couch when you are writing the lyrics and they are really about you. I would say half a dozen of the songs are clearly autobiographical. |
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More
studio shots of Neil. |
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Sally - You also wrote a song with your son - or he co-wrote a song with you, How difficult is that to do?
Neil - It was very interesting and very enlightening for me because first of all it was really enjoyable. If you ever want to be close to your kid, try creating something with them. I think a father always wants to impart whatever he knows to his children in some way. This is a silly thing to be teaching your child. I mean it is not a very practical thing to be a songwriter but this is the only thing I can teach him. |
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from LATG. This time it was Cracklin Rosie |
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Neil - Performing is one of my favourite things to do because it's just singing and I have been singing since I was a little boy. I have an audience that's there, they accept me and they enjoy the music and they're ready to have a good time. The performing thing is a fun thing for me to do.
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Sally - How do you prepare yourself for something like this? Neil - Well the first thing you do is get very nervous and once you get nervous then you find it hard to eat and when you find it hard to eat, then you start losing weight and when you start losing weight then you start looking pretty good. So the nerves do help - they put you on the mark, they say the games are about to begin. |
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Sally - Now you have just celebrated your 55th
birthday. Neil - Well I guess you could call it a celebration (laughs). Sally - Have you ever thought maybe it is time to hang up your guitar? Neil - I have thought about it, It's a nice thought but I don't think I would be happy. I would be cranky all the time. People wouldn't want to talk to me. I'd be out of sorts so I think it is better for me to keep working as long as I can. |
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Sally - You call this a milestone album. Neil - It's either a milestone or a tombstone. One of those stones .. I don't know which one it is. I'll be either out of the business or in it after this album.
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Then Neil and Sol said goodbye from the studio and off they went.
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Neil singing Cherry Cherry from the Up On The Roof video |
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| On a later edition of GMTV, another small glimpse from the same interview was shown during Sally's Entertainment section from Hollywood. | |
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Sally - I asked him if being older made it easier for him to write songs whether he could draw on more life experience and this is what he said - Neil - I am not sure if it gets easier as you get older because as you get older you need more nap time. So you know you got to break it up. I don't think it gets easier. Certainly you have more life experience but it's still about trying to catch that intangible kind of thing - that little bit of magic. |
| Lorraine Kelly - Neil was on BBC2 at the weekend singing from about twenty years ago and he hasn't aged too badly . Sally agreed. She thought he had a wonderful aura around him and she loved his dog! |
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