Rag’n’Bone Man on ‘Human’: It Doesn’t Feel Like An Album To Me

On the Record with Poppy Reid · May 19, 2025 · 36m

In 2017, a bearded baritone from East Sussex released a debut album that would catapult him into global superstardom. That album was Human — a raw, genre-defying collection of tracks that gave us one of the most streamed songs of all time.Fast-forward to 2025: Rag’n’Bone Man (aka Rory Graham) is three albums in, a global touring powerhouse, and a father. But what was it like living through the explosion of Human? Did he see it coming? And how did he navigate the intense spotlight that followed?In this episode of On The Record, Rory revisits the making of Human, the stories behind songs like…