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Paul Rodgers' Memoir: An EXCLUSIVE Update [Highlight From Episode 312] · Booked On Rock with Eric Senich

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  Speaker 1: Here's a highlight from a recent episode of Booked on Rock.
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  Speaker 1: Our guest is author, TV host, photographer percepting Paul Rogers
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  Speaker 1: a guy who deserves a book? Tell us about this?
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  Speaker 1: When's it coming out? When's a duout? What's it going
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  Speaker 1: to be?
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  Speaker 2: And he talked about us publicly, so I feel comfortable, okay,
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  Speaker 2: good while we were super quiet.
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  Speaker 3: But he talked about us when he was on Eddie
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  Speaker 3: Trunk and I met Paul. I'm a he interviewed him
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  Speaker 3: years ago and it wasn't you remembered that?
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  Speaker 2: But about a year or so ago, somebody representing him
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  Speaker 2: contacted me, somebody I had worked with, and said, you know,
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  Speaker 2: Paul needs a book.
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  Speaker 3: He's never really.
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  Speaker 2: Wanted to do it, but would you at least talk
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  Speaker 2: to him about it? And I said, I mean, I'm
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  Speaker 2: you don't have to ask twice. I mean, Paul Rodgers
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  Speaker 2: to me, is you know if any Rock Royalty truly exists?
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  Speaker 2: And he would hate me saying this because he's very
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  Speaker 2: humble and very modest, But come on, if you're if
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  Speaker 2: you grew up when we grew up, you know, a
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  Speaker 2: bad company and especially free for me, I was love,
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  Speaker 2: free everything else.
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  Speaker 1: Bad company.
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  Speaker 4: A firm that work did firm everything solo work. The
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  Speaker 4: guy's voice is velvet, legendary voice.
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  Speaker 2: And so we had a zoom call and I could
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  Speaker 2: tell he didn't want to do a book.
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  Speaker 3: We talked about it and joked a little bit, and
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  Speaker 3: I think he.
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  Speaker 2: Realized that the process could actually be fun, and it
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  Speaker 2: could be wistful and a little nostalgic. And he'd been
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  Speaker 2: through so many health things. I think that shifted his
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  Speaker 2: perspective as well, because all of a sudden, now no
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  Speaker 2: one's guaranteed anything, and how is he doing?
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  Speaker 4: By the way, he had a heart condition, great, he
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  Speaker 4: had a number of strokes and hard things.
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  Speaker 3: He's done great. We've been working on this.
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  Speaker 2: For a year. Our hope is that it's out next year.
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  Speaker 2: A lot of work's been done on it. I've done
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  Speaker 2: a ton of interviews for it. Paul and I have
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  Speaker 2: had dozens and dozens of sessions where he has shared
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  Speaker 2: wonderful stories from growing up through his entire career, from
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  Speaker 2: again the early days into Free into Bad Company, everything
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  Speaker 2: after that. So I think we have photos that are
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  Speaker 2: absolutely incredible and most people haven't seen.
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  Speaker 3: This book is going to be really special.
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  Speaker 2: This was all culminating around the fact that Bad Company
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  Speaker 2: finally got inducted into the rock and roll hole. Ceremonial
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  Speaker 2: will be this Fall, which is really exciting and a
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  Speaker 2: good thing for the.
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  Speaker 3: Book, and yeah, I am. I'm so excited.
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  Speaker 2: I think Paul is really he's one of the most
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  Speaker 2: graceful rock stars you'll ever meet, because he really is modest,
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  Speaker 2: and he really is. He doesn't carry himself in a
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  Speaker 2: way that some people do at that level. His humble
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  Speaker 2: nature I think belies the ferocity of what he brought us,
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  Speaker 2: the soulfulness, the.
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  Speaker 3: Blues based.
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  Speaker 2: Just you know, unmatchable passion that he brought to those
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  Speaker 2: hits and deep cuts and everything. So solid and amazing
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  Speaker 2: guitar player, which people don't know a lot about.
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  Speaker 3: Really.
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  Speaker 4: I saw a Bad Company with Lynyrd Skinner maybe ten
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  Speaker 4: fifteen years ago up in the sight of Woodstock there Bethlee,
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  Speaker 4: New York. Yeah, yeah, when he started, when they broke
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  Speaker 4: into Seagull. I mean the goosebumps, I mean just goosebumps
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  Speaker 4: listening to him sing that song that is That is
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  Speaker 4: my favorite deep track of his from Bad Company.
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  Speaker 3: It's a new tribute record comes up as Fall.
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  Speaker 2: It's announced where a bunch of artists have done Bad
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  Speaker 2: Company songs and Joe Elliott and Phil Collin to Siegull.
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  Speaker 3: So you'll love that.
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  Speaker 1: Oh, that's fantastic. Well, I cannot wait to have you
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  Speaker 1: on to talk about the book when it's out.
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  Speaker 3: I can't wait. Like I said, I am so excited.
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  Speaker 2: I with Paul, it's like when you realize who you're
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  Speaker 2: talking to and his seriousness to the That's the other
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  Speaker 2: thing too, the way he embraced the project and the
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  Speaker 2: seriousness with which he takes it. His wife Cynthia has
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  Speaker 2: been a remarkable help. Longtime manager David Spirou. Four of
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  Speaker 2: us are kind of like this team and what we've
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  Speaker 2: been working on the last year. I can't wait for
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  Speaker 2: the world to experience it.