Jools Holland
Julian Miles Holland OBE DL (born 24 January 1958) is an English pianist, bandleader, singer, composer and television presenter. He was an original member of the band Squeeze and has worked with many artists including Jayne County, Sting, Eric Clapton, Mark Knopfler, George Harrison, David Gilmour, Magazine, The The, Ringo Starr and Bono.
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| Birth name | Julian Miles Holland |
| Born | 24 January 1958 Blackheath, London, England |
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| Years active | 1974–present |
| Labels | EastWest, I.R.S. Records |
| Spouse(s) | Christabel McEwen (m. 2005) |
| Website | www |
From 1982 until 1987, he co-presented the Channel 4 music programme The Tube. Since 1992, he has hosted Later... with Jools Holland, a music-based show aired on BBC2, on which his annual show Hootenanny is based.[1] Holland is a published author and appears on television shows besides his own and contributes to radio shows. In 2004 he collaborated with Tom Jones on an album of traditional R&B music.
On BBC Radio 2 Holland also regularly hosts the weekly programme Jools Holland, a mix of live and recorded music and general chat and features studio guests, along with members of his orchestra.
Early life and education
Holland was born on 24 January 1958 in Blackheath, South East London. At the age of eight, he could play the piano fluently by ear. By his early teens he was appearing regularly in many of the pubs in South East London and the East End Docks.[2]
Holland was educated at Shooters Hill Grammar School in southeast London, from which he was expelled for damaging a teacher's Triumph Herald.[3]
Career
Holland began his career as a session musician. His first studio session was with Wayne County & the Electric Chairs in 1976 on their track "Fuck Off".[4]
Holland was a founding member of the British pop band Squeeze, formed in March 1974, in which he played keyboards until 1980, through its first three albums, the eponymous Squeeze, Cool for Cats and Argybargy, before pursuing his solo career.[citation needed]
Holland began issuing solo records in 1978, his first EP being Boogie Woogie '78. He continued his solo career through the early 1980s, releasing an album and several singles between 1981 and 1984. He branched out into TV, co-presenting the Newcastle-based TV music show The Tube with Paula Yates. Holland used the phrase, "be there, or be an ungroovy fucker" in one early evening TV trailer for the show, live across two channels, causing him to be suspended from the show for six weeks.[5] He referred to this in his sitcom The Groovy Fellers with Rowland Rivron.[citation needed] Holland also appeared as a guest host on MTV.
In 1983, Holland played an extended piano solo on The The's re-recording of "Uncertain Smile" for the album Soul Mining. In 1985, Squeeze (which had continued in Holland's absence through to 1982) unexpectedly regrouped including Holland as their keyboard player. Holland remained in the band until 1990, at which point he again departed to resume his solo career as a musician and a TV host.[citation needed]
In 1987, Holland formed the Jools Holland Big Band, which consisted of himself and for the show Gilson Lavis from Squeeze, which gradually grew and was renamed as Jools Holland's Rhythm and Blues Orchestra.[6] In May 2022, it was a 17-piece orchestra and included singers Louise Marshall, Ruby Turner and Holland's daughter Mabel Ray, as well as his younger brother, singer-songwriter and keyboard player, Christopher Holland.[6]
Between 1988 and 1990 Holland performed and co-hosted along with David Sanborn during the two seasons of the music performance programme Sunday Night on NBC late-night television.[7] Since 1992, he has presented the music programme Later... with Jools Holland, plus an annual New Year's Eve Hootenanny.
In 1996, Holland signed a recording contract with Warner Bros. Records,[4] and his records are now marketed through Rhino Records.
On 29 November 2002, Holland was in the ensemble of musicians who performed at the Concert for George, which celebrated the music of George Harrison. In January 2005 Holland and his band performed with Eric Clapton as the headline act of the Tsunami Relief Cardiff.[citation needed]
In March 2023, Jimmy Barnes announced the formation of supergroup The Barnestormers, featuring Barnes, Chris Cheney, Slim Jim Phantom, Jools Holland and Kevin Shirley. A self-titled album is set for release on 26 May 2023.[8]
Personal life
As a teenager, Holland lived with his grandparents,[9] which he mentioned anecdotally in a 2020 episode of Rhod Gilbert's Growing Pains.
Holland has a son, George, and daughter, Rose, with his former partner Mary Leahy.[10][11] On 30 August 2005, Holland married Christabel McEwen, his girlfriend of 15 years and daughter of artist Rory McEwen.[10][12] The couple have a daughter, Mabel, and McEwen has a son, Frederick Lambton, Viscount Lambton, by her former marriage to Ned Lambton, the 7th Earl of Durham.[11][13]
Holland lives in Westcombe Park, south east London, where he had his studio, Helicon Mountain, built to his design and inspired by Portmeirion, the setting for the 1960s TV series The Prisoner.[14] He also owns a manor house near the medieval Cooling Castle in Kent.[15][16]
He appeared on the cover of Railway Modeller magazine in January 2019.[17] In the attic of his house, Holland has spent ten years building a 100-foot (30 m) model railway. It is full of miniature buildings and landscapes that stretch from Berlin to London. He started with photographs and paintings from early 1960s London. According to The Daily Telegraph, "In the evenings, he builds some trains and buildings before switching on some music, pouring a glass of wine and switching on the trains to watch them move around the room."[18]
He received an OBE in 2003 in the Queen's Birthday Honours list, for services to the British music industry as a television presenter and musician.[19] In September 2006, Holland was appointed a Deputy Lieutenant for Kent.[20] Holland was appointed an honorary fellow of Canterbury Christ Church University at a ceremony held at Canterbury Cathedral on 30 January 2009.[21] On 1 February 2011 he was appointed honorary colonel of 101 (City of London) Engineer Regiment.[22]
In June 2006, Holland performed in Southend for HIV/AIDS charity Mildmay,[23] and in early 2007 he performed at Wells and Rochester Cathedrals to raise money for maintaining cathedral buildings.[24] He is also patron of Drake Music.[25]
A fan of the 1960s TV series The Prisoner,[14] in 1987 Holland demonstrated his love of the series and starred in a spoof documentary, The Laughing Prisoner, with Stephen Fry, Terence Alexander and Hugh Laurie.[14] Much of it was shot on location in Portmeirion, with archive footage of Patrick McGoohan, and featuring musical numbers from Siouxsie and the Banshees, Magnum and XTC. Holland performed a number towards the end of the programme.
Holland was an interviewer for The Beatles Anthology TV project, and appeared in the 1997 film Spiceworld as a musical director.
In 2009, Holland commissioned TV series Bangla Bangers (Chop Shop) to create a replica of the Rover JET1 for personal use. Holland has previously owned cats.
in 2018, Holland became the President of the British Watch & Clock Makers Guild.[26]
Writing
His 2007 autobiography, Barefaced Lies and Boogie-Woogie Boasts, was BBC Radio 4 "Book of the Week" in the week beginning 8 October 2007 and was read by Holland.[27]
Discography
Albums which charted and received certifications
| Year | Album | Peak chart positions | Certifications (sales thresholds) [28] | |
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| 1996 | Sex & Jazz & Rock & Roll | 38 | – | |
| 1998 | The Best Of | 90 | – |
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| 2000 | Hop The Wag | – | – |
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| 2001 | Small World Big Band | 8 | 23 |
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| 2002 | SWBB Volume Two: More Friends | 17 | 44 |
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| 2003 | Jack O The Green (SWBB Friends 3) | 39 | – |
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| 2004 | Tom Jones & Jools Holland | 5 | – |
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| 2005 | Swinging the Blues, Dancing the Ska | 36 | – | |
| 2007 | Best of Friends | 9 | – |
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| 2011 | Finding The Keys – The Best of | 127[31] | – | |
| 2012 | The Golden Age of Song | 11[32] | – |
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| 2015 | Jools & Ruby | 39[33] | – | |
| 2017 | As You See Me Now (with José Feliciano) | 24 | – | |
| 2018 | A Lovely Life to Live (with Marc Almond) | 61 | – | |
Releases
- 1978 "Boogie Woogie '78" (EP)
- 1981 Jools Holland and His Millionaires
- 1984 Jools Holland Meets Rock 'A' Boogie Billy (US release only)
- 1990 World of His Own
- 1991 The Full Complement
- 1992 "Together Again" (single with Sam Brown)
- 1992 The A–Z Geographer's Guide to the Piano
- 1994 Solo Piano
- 1994 Live Performance
- 1996 Sex & Jazz & Rock & Roll
- 1997 Lift the Lid
- 1998 Best Of
- 1999 Sunset Over London
- 2000 Hop the Wag
- 2001 Small World Big Band
- 2001 Jools Holland's Big Band Rhythm & Blues
- 2002 SWBB Volume Two: More Friends
- 2003 Jack O the Green (SWBB Friends 3)
- 2004 Tom Jones & Jools Holland
- 2005 Beatroute
- 2005 Swinging the Blues, Dancing the Ska
- 2006 Moving Out to the Country
- 2007 Best of Friends
- 2008 The Collection
- 2008 The Informer (with Ruby Turner)
- 2008 "The Informer" (single with Ruby Turner)
- 2009 "I Went By" (single with Louise Marshall)
- 2010 Rockinghorse
- 2011 Finding the Keys: The Best of Jools Holland
- 2012 The Golden Age of Song
- 2014 Sirens of Song (UK No. 25)
- 2015 Jools & Ruby (with Ruby Turner)
- 2016 Piano
- 2017 As You See Me Now (with José Feliciano)
- 2018 A Lovely Life to Live (with Marc Almond)
- 2021 Pianola. Piano & Friends
Film and television
- 1981 Otway & Barrett Live
- 1981 Urgh! A Music War
- 1982 Police: Around the World
- 1982–1987 The Tube (Host for 121 editions)
- 1983 Rebellious Jukebox: Compere
- 1984 The Young Ones: punk (episode entitled "Cash")
- 1985 Walking to New Orleans (Jools Holland in New Orleans)
- 1987 Eat the Rich: Sun Reporter
- 1987 Filthy Rich & Catflap: Strip Show Pianist (Episode No. 1.3)
- 1987 The Laughing Prisoner: No. 7
- 1987 French and Saunders (Episode 1.5)
- 1988 Sunday Night: Host (unknown episodes)
- 1989-1990 Juke Box Jury: Host (unknown episodes)
- 1989 The Groovy Fellers Himself, 6 episodes
- 1990-1992 Jools Holland's Happening (Noel Gay Productions 37 episodes (BSB 1990-1991); 12 episodes (Channel 4, 1991-1992). Entire series believed lost[35][36])
- 1991 Mr Roadrunner (Jools Holland in Memphis)
- 1994 There's No Business...: Pianist (uncredited)
- 1994–1995 Don't Forget Your Toothbrush
- 1995 The Beatles Anthology
- 1997 Spice World: Musical Director
- 1997 Name That Tune: Host and Pianist
- 1998 Beat Route: Round the World with Jools Holland: Host and Pianist
- 2001 Astley's Way: Tribute to composer Edwin Astley[37]
- 2003 Jools' History of the Piano: Presenter
- 2007 Fairport@Forty: Interview
- 2007 Top Gear: Star in a reasonably priced car.
- 2009 Chop Shop Rover Concept: The Jet 1 Car : Customer
- 2012 Jools Holland – London Calling: Presenter
- 2014 The Life of Rock with Brian Pern as himself
Current television programmes
- 1992–present Later... with Jools Holland
- 1993–present Hootenanny
- 2020–present Celebrity Gogglebox with Vic Reeves
Books
- "Rolling Stones": A Life on the Road (with Dora Loewenstein), Viking/Allen Lane (1998) (ISBN 0-670-88051-5)
- Beat Route: Journeys Through Six Counties, Weidenfeld & Nicolson (1998) (ISBN 0-575-06700-4)
- Ray Charles: Man and Music, (with Michael Lydon), Payback Press (1999) (ISBN 0-86241-929-8)
- Hand That Changed Its Mind, International Music Publications (2007) (ISBN 1-84328-645-9)
- Barefaced Lies and Boogie-woogie Boasts, Penguin Books (2007) (ISBN 9780718149154)
References
- ^ "BBC Later With Jools Holland". BBC. Retrieved 13 April 2011.
- ^ "Jools Holland | Official Web Site | About Jools | Biography".
- ^ Farndale, Nigel (19 November 2006). "A man in touch with his inner anorak". Telegraph.co.uk. Retrieved 21 September 2018.
- ^ a b "About Jools". Joolsholland.com. Retrieved 4 July 2007.
- ^ "Laughing Policeman Wireless Society: History of Swearing". Laughingpoliceman.com. Retrieved 13 April 2011.
- ^ a b "Jools Holland | Official Web Site | About Jools | The Rhythm & Blues Orchestra". joolsholland.com. Retrieved 5 May 2022.
- ^ Sunday Night episodes 104 (1988), 113 (1989), 114 (1989), 121 (1989)
- ^ "The Barnestormers Reveal Debut Album Details". Noise11. 10 March 2023. Retrieved 10 March 2023.
- ^ "Jools Holland: My family values". The Guardian. 2 June 2012.
- ^ a b Edge, Simon (28 June 2011). "Jools Holland rules". Express.co.uk. Retrieved 7 April 2022.
- ^ a b "The Pied Piper of cool rubs shoulders with royalty yet still retains the common touch". www.scotsman.com. Retrieved 7 April 2022.
- ^ "Musician Jools Holland and Christabel McEwen pose at their wedding at..." Getty Images. Retrieved 7 April 2022.
- ^ "Face of the Day". HeraldScotland. Retrieved 7 April 2022.
- ^ a b c "About Jools – Biography – Official site". Joolsholland.com. Retrieved 11 November 2010.
- ^ Dyer, Chris; Bird, Steve (17 March 2018). "Jools Holland wins battle over late night music from wedding venue neighbour". Telegraph.co.uk. Archived from the original on 10 January 2022.
- ^ "Jools Holland in wedding venue noise row". Bbc.co.uk. 16 March 2018.
- ^ "RAILWAY MODELLER". Peco-uk.com. Retrieved 10 October 2019.
- ^ Horton, Helena. "Jools Holland reveals 100ft long model railway in his attic that he spent 10 years building". The Daily Telegraph. Archived from the original on 10 January 2022. Retrieved 26 February 2019.
- ^ "No. 56963". The London Gazette (1st supplement). 14 June 2003. p. 11.
- ^ Farndale, Nigel (19 November 2006). "A man in touch with his inner anorak". (Interview with Jools Holland). London: Telegraph.co.uk. Retrieved 19 August 2009.
- ^ . Canterbury Christ Church University. 3 February 2009. Archived from the original on 20 July 2011. Retrieved 19 August 2009.
- ^ "No. 59986". The London Gazette (1st supplement). 6 December 2011. p. 23310.
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- ^ "Jools Holland To Play UK Charity Concerts". Easier.com. 25 January 2007. Retrieved 5 December 2007.
- ^ "Leaders in Music, Disability & Technology". Drake Music. 20 June 2014. Retrieved 27 December 2015.
- ^ "who's who – The British Watch and Clock Makers' Guild". Retrieved 23 April 2022.
- ^ "BBC Radio 4 - Book of the Week, Barefaced Lies and Boogie-Woogie Boasts, Greenwich". BBC. October 2007. Retrieved 26 December 2022.
- ^ [2] 14 May 2011 at the Wayback Machine
- ^ "Jools Holland | full Official Chart history". Official Charts Company. Retrieved 1 December 2018.
- ^ Steffen Hung. "Discography Jools Holland". charts.nz. Retrieved 12 April 2012.
- ^ "Chart Log UK: New Entries Update: Chart Date 18 June 2011". Zobbel.de. Retrieved 18 December 2012.
- ^ . Officialcharts.com. Archived from the original on 28 April 2012. Retrieved 18 December 2012.
- ^ Copsey, Rob (11 December 2015). "Adele beats Coldplay to Number 1 on the Official Albums Chart". Officialcharts.com. Retrieved 27 December 2015.
- ^ "Jools Holland - Album Discography". AllMusic. Retrieved 5 May 2022.
- ^ Lost UK TV Shows Search Engine: Jools' Holland's Happening 1990-1991 5 July 2015 at the Wayback Machine. Publisher: Kaleidoscope Publishing. Retrieved: 29 May 2015.
- ^ Lost UK TV Shows Search Engine: Jools' Holland's Happening (1991-1992) 4 March 2016 at the Wayback Machine. Publisher: Kaleidoscope Publishing. Retrieved: 29 May 2015.
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