Jools Holland
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Julian Miles Holland Template:Post-nominals (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 Marc Almond, Jayne County, Tom Jones, José Feliciano, Sting, Eric Clapton, Mark Knopfler, George Harrison, David Gilmour, Ringo Starr, Dr. John, Bono, Rod Stewart, The The, Ruby Turner, and Amy Winehouse.
From 1982 until 1987, Holland 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. Holland is a published author and appears on television shows besides his own. He regularly hosted the programme Jools Holland on BBC Radio 2.
In 2004 he collaborated with Welsh singer Tom Jones on an album of traditional R&B music. He achieved his first UK number one album in 2024 with Swing Fever, a collaboration with Rod Stewart.
Early life and educationEdit
Holland was born on 24 January 1958 in Blackheath, southeast 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 southeast London and the East End Docks.<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref>
Holland was educated at Shooters Hill Grammar School in southeast London, from which he was expelled for damaging a teacher's Triumph Herald.<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref>
CareerEdit
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".<ref name="official">{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref>
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.<ref name="Squeeze AMG">{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref>
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.<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref> He referred to this in his sitcom The Groovy Fellers with Rowland Rivron.<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref>
In 1983, Holland played an extended piano solo on The The's re-recording of "Uncertain Smile" for their album Soul Mining.<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref> 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.<ref name="Squeeze AMG"/>
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.<ref name=":2" /> 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.<ref name=":2">{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref>
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.<ref>Sunday Night episodes 104 (1988), 113 (1989), 114 (1989), 121 (1989)</ref> Since 1992, he has presented the music programme Later... with Jools Holland, plus an annual New Year's Eve Hootenanny.<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref>
In 1996, Holland signed a recording contract with Warner Bros. Records,<ref name=official /> 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.<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref> In January 2005 Holland and his band performed with Eric Clapton as the headline act of the Tsunami Relief Cardiff.<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref><ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref>
In 2004 he collaborated with Welsh singer Tom Jones on an album of traditional R&B music.<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref>
On BBC Radio 2 Holland regularly hosted the programme Jools Holland, a mix of live and recorded music and general chat, featuring studio guests, along with members of his orchestra.<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref> Holland currently hosts the music magazine programme Earlier with Jools Holland on BBC Radio 3 at 12.00 - 13.00 on Saturdays.<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref>
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 was released on 26 May 2023.<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref>
He achieved his first UK number one album in 2024 with Swing Fever, a collaboration with Rod Stewart.<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref>
Personal lifeEdit
As a teenager, Holland lived with his grandparents,<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref> 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.<ref name=":0">{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref><ref name=":1">{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref> On 30 August 2005, Holland married Christabel McEwen, his girlfriend of 15 years and daughter of artist Rory McEwen.<ref name=":0" /><ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref> 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.<ref name=":1" /><ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref>
Holland lives in Westcombe Park, southeast 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.<ref name=official_biog>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref> He also owns a manor house near the medieval Cooling Castle in Kent.<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}Template:Cbignore</ref><ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref>
He appeared on the cover of Railway Modeller magazine in January 2019.<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref> In the attic of his house, Holland has spent ten years building a Template:Convert 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."<ref>Template:Cite newsTemplate:Cbignore</ref>
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.<ref>Template:London Gazette</ref> In September 2006, Holland was appointed a Deputy Lieutenant for Kent.<ref name=TelegraphAnorak>Template:Cite news</ref> Holland was appointed an honorary fellow of Canterbury Christ Church University at a ceremony held at Canterbury Cathedral on 30 January 2009.<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref> On 1 February 2011 he was appointed honorary colonel of 101 (City of London) Engineer Regiment.<ref>Template:London Gazette</ref> Holland has been the President of the British Watch & Clock Makers Guild since 2018,<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref> and an honorary liveryman of the Worshipful Company of Plumbers since 2019.<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref>
In June 2006, Holland performed in Southend for HIV/AIDS charity Mildmay,<ref>[1] Template:Dead link</ref> and in early 2007 he performed at Wells and Rochester Cathedrals to raise money for maintaining cathedral buildings.<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref> He is also patron of Drake Music.<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref>
A fan of the 1960s TV series The Prisoner,<ref name=official_biog/> 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.<ref name=official_biog/> Much of it was shot on location in Portmeirion, with archive footage of Patrick McGoohan. It featured musical selections by 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.
WritingEdit
His 2007 autobiography, Barefaced Lies and Boogie-Woogie Boasts, was BBC Radio 4's "Book of the Week" in the week beginning 8 October 2007 and was read by Holland.<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref>
DiscographyEdit
Charting and certified albumsEdit
| Year | Album | Peak chart positions | Certifications (sales thresholds) | ||
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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<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation | CitationClass=web
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| 2012 | The Golden Age of Song | 11<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation | CitationClass=web
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| 2015 | Jools & Ruby | 39<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation | CitationClass=web
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| 2017 | As You See Me Now Template:Small | 24 | – | ||
| 2018 | A Lovely Life to Live Template:Small | 61 | – | ||
| 2024 | Swing Fever Template:Small | 1 | – |
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ReleasesEdit
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Guest appearancesEdit
| Year | Album | Artist | Details | Ref. | |
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| 1977 | The Count Bishops | The Count Bishops | Piano | <ref name="AllMusic">{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation | CitationClass=web
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| The Electric Chairs | Wayne County & the Electric Chairs | Keyboards | <ref name="AllMusic" /> | ||
| 1978 | The Image Has Cracked | Alternative TV | Piano on "Viva La Rock 'n' Roll", Moog synthesizer on "Alternatives" |
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| 1979 | Dilemma | Streetband | Keyboards | <ref name="AllMusic" /> | |
| Thriller | Eddie and the Hot Rods | Keyboards | <ref name="AllMusic" /> | ||
| 1983 | Soul Mining | The The | Piano on "Uncertain Smile" | <ref name="AllMusic" /> | |
| 1985 | Black and White | Terraplane | Organ | <ref name="AllMusic" /> | |
| 1986 | Deep in the Heart of Nowhere | Bob Geldof | Keyboards | <ref name="AllMusic" /> | |
| 1988 | Angst | Chrome Molly | Keyboards | <ref name="AllMusic" /> | |
| The Raw & the Cooked | Fine Young Cannibals | Piano on "Good Thing" | <ref name="AllMusic" /> | ||
| Wolf | Hugh Cornwell | Piano on"Cherry Rare", organ on "Dreaming Again" |
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| 1992 | Mirmama | Eddi Reader | Piano, Hammond organ | <ref name="AllMusic" /> | |
| 1994 | Jewel | Marcella Detroit | Piano on "Detroit", Hammond organ on "James Brown" |
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| 1996 | Guilty | Ruby Turner | Piano | <ref name="AllMusic" /> | |
| Homage | The Blues Band | Piano, organ | <ref name="AllMusic" /> | ||
| A Night in London | Mark Knopfler | Piano | <ref name="AllMusic" /> | ||
| 1997 | Deuces Wild | B. B. King | Piano | <ref name="AllMusic" /> | |
| Heavy Soul | Paul Weller | Wurlitzer on "Golden Sands" | <ref name="AllMusic" /> | ||
| 1998 | Anutha Zone | Dr. John | Hammond organ | <ref name="AllMusic" /> | |
| 1999 | Straight Up | Leo Green | Hammond organ | <ref name="AllMusic" /> | |
| 2000 | ReBoot | Sam Brown | Piano on "In Light of All That's Gone Before" | <ref name="AllMusic" /> | |
| 2002 | Brainwashed | George Harrison | Piano on "Between the Devil and the Deep Blue Sea" |
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| 2003 | Frank | Amy Winehouse | Deluxe edition Piano on "Teach Me Tonight" (live) |
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| 2004 | Roll the Dice | Big Town Playboys | Piano | <ref name="AllMusic" /> | |
| Thank You Brother Ray | The Blues Band | Keyboards | <ref name="AllMusic" /> | ||
| 2005 | A Hyperactive Workout for the Flying Squad |
Ocean Colour Scene | Piano and Hammond organ on "Waving Not Drowning" |
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| 2006 | On an Island | David Gilmour | Piano on "The Blue" | <ref name="AllMusic" /> | |
| 2007 | Stardom Road | Marc Almond | Piano on "Backstage (I'm Lonely)" | <ref name="AllMusic" /> | |
| 2011 | Hold On Tight | Solomon Burke and De Dijk | Piano on "What a Woman" | <ref name="AllMusic" /> | |
| 2015 | Making Life Rhyme | Lulu | Piano | <ref name="AllMusic" /> | |
| Rattle That Lock | David Gilmour | Piano on "The Girl in the Yellow Dress" | <ref name="AllMusic" /> | ||
| Suddenly I Like It | Paul Jones | Piano, Hammond organ | <ref name="AllMusic" /> | ||
| 2016 | Soulsville | Beverley Knight | Featured on "Hound Dog" | <ref name="AllMusic" /> | |
| 2017 | Daylight | The Selecter | Piano on "Daylight" | <ref name="AllMusic" /> | |
| Life Love Flesh Blood | Imelda May | Piano on "When It's My Time" | <ref name="AllMusic" /> | ||
| 2020 | Gospel | Mica Paris | Piano on "Take My Hand, Precious Lord" | <ref name="AllMusic" /> | |
| Royal Tea | Joe Bonamassa | Co-composer, piano on "Lonely Boy" | <ref name="AllMusic" /> |
Film and televisionEdit
Current television programmesEdit
- 1992–present Later... with Jools Holland
- 1993–present Hootenanny
- 2020–present Celebrity Gogglebox with Vic Reeves
BooksEdit
- "Rolling Stones": A Life on the Road (with Dora Loewenstein), Viking/Allen Lane (1998) (Template:ISBN)
- Beat Route: Journeys Through Six Counties, Weidenfeld & Nicolson (1998) (Template:ISBN)
- Ray Charles: Man and Music, (with Michael Lydon), Payback Press (1999) (Template:ISBN)
- Hand That Changed Its Mind, International Music Publications (2007) (Template:ISBN)
- Barefaced Lies and Boogie-woogie Boasts, Penguin Books (2007) (Template:ISBN)
ReferencesEdit
External linksEdit
- Template:Official website
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- Earlier... with Jools Holland (BBC Radio 3)
- Later...with Jools Holland (BBC Two)