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Julian Miles "Jools" Holland OBE

Order of the British Empire

The Most Excellent Order of the British Empire is a United Kingdom order of chivalry established on 4 June 1917 by George V of the United Kingdom....
, DL

Deputy Lieutenant

In the United Kingdom, a Deputy Lieutenant is one of several deputies to the Lord-Lieutenant of an English ceremonial counties of England, Welsh preserved counties of Wales, Scottish lieutenancy areas of Scotland, or Northern Irish county borough or counties of Ireland....
(born 24 January 1958) is an English

England

Pianist

A pianist is a musician who plays the piano. A professional pianist can perform solo pieces, play with an musical ensemble or orchestra, or accompany one or more singers, solo instrumentalists, or other performers....
, bandleader

Bandleader

A bandleader is the leader of a band of musicians. The term is most commonly, though not exclusively, used with a group that plays popular music as a small combo or a big band, such as one which plays jazz, blues, rhythm and blues or rock and roll music....
and television presenter. His work has involved him with many of the biggest names in the contemporary rock and popular music industry, such as Sting, David Gilmour, Tom Jones and Bono.

in Blackheath

Blackheath, London

London

London is the capital of both England and the United Kingdom, and the most populous municipality in the European Union. An important settlement for two millennia, History of London goes back to its founding by the Roman Empire....
, Holland was a founding member of the band Squeeze

Squeeze

Squeeze are an England musical ensemble that came to prominence in the United Kingdom during the New Wave period of the late 1970s, and continued recording successfully in the 1980s and 1990s....
which formed in March 1974. Holland played the keyboard with the group until after the band produced its third album in 1980 when Holland left to forge a solo career.

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Julian Miles "Jools" Holland OBE

Order of the British Empire

The Most Excellent Order of the British Empire is a United Kingdom order of chivalry established on 4 June 1917 by George V of the United Kingdom....
, DL

Deputy Lieutenant

England

Pianist

Bandleader

Biography

Born in Blackheath

Blackheath, London

London

Squeeze

Squeeze are an England musical ensemble that came to prominence in the United Kingdom during the New Wave period of the late 1970s, and continued recording successfully in the 1980s and 1990s....
, he was regularly seen smoking Cuban cigars.

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

Newcastle upon Tyne

Newcastle upon Tyne is a City status in the United Kingdom and metropolitan borough of Tyne and Wear, in North East England. Situated on the north bank of the River Tyne, the city developed from a Roman Empire settlement called Pons Aelius, though it owes its name to the Newcastle Castle built in 1080, by Robert Curthose, the eldest son of...
-based TV music show The Tube
The Tube (TV series)

The Tube was an innovative United Kingdom pop/rock music television programme, which ran for five series, from 5 November 1982 until 1987....
with Paula Yates

Paula Yates

Paula Elizabeth Yates was a British television presenter and writer, best known for her work on two iconic television Television programs, The Tube and The Big Breakfast....
. Holland achieved notoriety by inadvertently using the phrase "groovy fuckers" in a live, early evening TV trailer for the show, causing it to be suspended for three weeks. He later referred back to this in his sitcom "The Groovy Fellers" with Rowland Rivron

Rowland Rivron

Rowland Rivron is a British comedian, musician, writer and a television presenter. He was brought up in Hillingdon, West London.Rivron first came to fame through his appearances as the comedy character of "Dr Scrote" on the Jonathan Stephen Ross chat show The Last Resort, before appearing on Night Network's Bunker Show....
.

In 1983 Jools played an extended piano solo on The The

The The

The The are an England musical and multimedia group that have been active in various forms since 1979, with singer/songwriter/frontman Matt Johnson being the only constant band member....
'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 re-grouped. Holland was once again the keyboard player for the band until 1990. At that point, he again departed Squeeze on amicable terms to resume his solo career as both a musician and a TV host.

In 1987, Holland formed The Jools Holland Big Band which consisted of himself and Gilson Lavis

Gilson Lavis

Gilson Lavis was the drummer for Squeeze from 1976 until 1992. More recently, he has been drumming for Jools Holland's Rhythm & Blues Orchestra....
from Squeeze. This gradually became his 18-piece Rhythm & Blues Orchestra.

Between 1988 and 1990 he performed and co-hosted along with David Sanborn

David Sanborn

David Sanborn is an United States alto saxophone saxophonist. Though Sanborn has worked in many genres, his solo recordings typically blend jazz with instrumental Pop music and R&B....
during the two seasons of the acclaimed music performance program Sunday Night

Sunday Night

Sunday Night, later named Michelob Presents Night Music, was a late-night television show which aired for two seasons between 1988 and 1990 as a showcase for jazz and eclectic musical artists....
on NBC late-night television.

Since 1992 he has presented the eclectic music program Later with Jools Holland
Later with Jools Holland

Later... with Jools Holland is a contemporary United Kingdom music Television program hosted by Jools Holland. A spin-off of The Late Show , it has been running without a break since 1992 and is a part of BBC Two's late-night line-up, usually around 11PM....
, plus an annual New Year's Eve "Hootenanny

Hootenanny (UK TV Show)

Hootenanny is an annual New Year's Eve music show presented by Jools Holland as an off-shoot of his Later with Jools Holland series. It is broadcast between 11pm on 31 December to around 1am the following morning....
", and has shaken off his "bad boy" image to become a respected musician.

In 1996 Holland signed a record deal with Warner Bros. Records

Warner Bros. Records

Warner Bros. Records Inc. is an United States record label that operates as a wholly owned subsidiary of Warner Music Group. It is also affectionately known as "Warners" and 'the Bunny', based on the Bugs Bunny cartoons released by Warner Bros....
.

Singers Sam Brown and Ruby Turner

Ruby Turner

Ruby Turner is a United Kingdom soul music singing, songwriter and actor. Turner moved to Handsworth, West Midlands, Birmingham, England when she was nine years old, in 1967....
often join his touring band, The Rhythm And Blues Orchestra.

Holland is a fan of the cult 1960s TV series The Prisoner
The Prisoner

The original The Prisoner was a 17-episode, British Dramatic programming broadcast in the late 1960s....
. He owns some of the costumes and props from the series, and occasionally appears wearing the trademark brown-with-white-pipe blazer featured in the series. Holland lives in the Westcombe Park

Westcombe Park

Westcombe Park is a largely residential area close to the Blackheath Standard area of Blackheath, London in the London Borough of Greenwich, south-east London, England....
area of Blackheath

Blackheath, London

Blackheath is an area in southeast London, centred around a section of open public grassland and straddling the boundary of the London Borough of Lewisham and the London Borough of Greenwich....
in south-east London, where he has had his studio, Helicon Mountain built to his own design, heavily inspired by Portmeirion

Portmeirion

Portmeirion is an Italianate resort village in Gwynedd, on the coast of Snowdonia in Wales. The village is located near Penrhyndeudraeth, on the estuary of the River Dwyryd, two miles southeast of Porthmadog, and one mile from the Minffordd railway station at Minffordd, which serves both the narrow gauge railways Ffestiniog Railway and Arriva...
, the setting for The Prisoner.

In 1987, Jools Holland demonstrated his love of the series and starred in a spoof

Satire

Satire is often strictly defined as a literary genre; although, in practice, it is also found in the graphic arts and performing arts. In satire, human or individual vices, follies, abuses, or shortcomings are held up to censure by means of ridicule, derision, burlesque, irony, or other methods, ideally with the intent to bring about improv...
documentary

Documentary film

Documentary film is a broad category of visual expression that is based on the attempt, in one fashion or another, to "document" reality. Although "documentary film" originally referred to movies shot on film stock, it has subsequently expanded to include video and new media productions that can be either direct-to-video or made for a televis...
, The Laughing Prisoner, with Stephen Fry

Stephen Fry

Stephen John Fry is an England actor, comedian, author and television presenter. With Hugh Laurie, as the comedy double act Fry and Laurie, he co-wrote and co-starred in A Bit of Fry and Laurie, and the duo also played the title roles in Jeeves and Wooster....
, Terence Alexander

Terence Alexander

Terence J. Alexander is an English people film and television actor. He is best known for his role as Charlie Hungerford in the United Kingdom TV drama Bergerac....
and Hugh Laurie

Hugh Laurie

James Hugh Calum Laurie, Order of the British Empire is an English actor, comedian, writer and musician. He first reached fame as one half of the Fry and Laurie double act, along with his friend and comedy partner, Stephen Fry, and then as a cast member of Blackadder....
. Much of it was shot on location in Portmeirion

Portmeirion

Patrick McGoohan

Patrick Joseph McGoohan was an American-born actor, raised in Ireland and England, with an extensive stage and film career, most notably in the 1960s television series Danger Man , and the Cult television classic The Prisoner....
, and featuring musical numbers from Siouxsie & the Banshees

Siouxsie & the Banshees

Siouxsie & the Banshees were a British Rock music band formed in 1976 by vocalist Siouxsie Sioux and bassist Steven Severin, the only constant members....
, Magnum

Magnum

'Magnum' from Latin ...
and XTC

XTC

XTC were a New Wave band from Swindon, England, active between 1976 and 2005. Though the band enjoyed some significant chart success , they are more known for their long-standing critical success than for making hit records....
. Holland himself also performed a number towards the end of the program. Also appearing was Stanley Unwin

Stanley Unwin (comedian)

Stanley Unwin , sometimes billed as Professor Stanley Unwin, was a United Kingdom comedian and comic writer, and the inventor of his own language, "Unwinese," referred to in the film Carry On films as Gobbledygook....
.

He was also one of the interviewers for The Beatles Anthology

The Beatles Anthology

The Beatles Anthology is the name of a documentary series, a series of three albums and a book, all of which focus on the history of The Beatles....
TV project. Although he wasn't supposed to be seen or heard during the program, on a couple of occasions his presence is detectable. For example, he is in the boat that Paul McCartney

Paul McCartney

Sir James Paul McCartney Member of the Order of the British Empire is a multiple Grammy Award-winning England singer-songwriter, poet, composer, multi-instrumentalist, entrepreneur, record producer, film producer, Painting, and Animal rights....
was steering.

Holland appeared in the 1997 film Spiceworld
Spiceworld (film)

Spice World is a feature film starring England pop music girl group the Spice Girls directed by Bob Spiers and written by Kim Fuller and Jamie Curtis....
as a musical director.

He received an OBE

Order of the British Empire

The Most Excellent Order of the British Empire is a United Kingdom order of chivalry established on 4 June 1917 by George V of the United Kingdom....
in 2003 in the Queen's Birthday Honours list, for services to the British music industry as a television presenter and musician. He is also a published author and appears regularly on television shows besides his own and contributes to radio shows. In 2004, he collaborated with Tom Jones

Tom Jones (singer)

Sir Thomas John Woodward Officer of the British Empire , known by his stage name Tom Jones, is a Welsh singer-songwriter, particularly noted for his powerful voice and wide vocal range....
on an album of traditional R&B music. In January 2005 Jools and his band performed with Eric Clapton

Eric Clapton

Eric Patrick Clapton Order of the British Empire is an English blues-rock guitarist, singer, songwriter and composer. He is "probably most famous for his mastery of the Stratocaster guitar." Clapton has been inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame as a member of the Yardbirds, of Cream , and as a solo performer, being the only person to...
as the headline act of the Tsunami relief concert

Tsunami Relief Cardiff

Tsunami Relief Cardiff was a charity music concert held at the Millennium Stadium in Cardiff on 22 January 2005, in aid of the victims of the 2004 Indian Ocean earthquake, which had occurred the month before....
in Cardiff's

Cardiff

Cardiff is the Capital , largest city and most populous Unitary authority#Wales in Wales. The city is Wales' chief commercial centre, the base for many national cultural and sport institutions, the Welsh national media, and the seat of Welsh Assembly Government ....
Millennium Stadium

Millennium Stadium

The Millennium Stadium is the national stadium of Wales, located in the capital Cardiff. It is the home of the Wales national rugby union team and the Wales national football team but is also host to many other large scale events, such as Wales Rally Great Britain stage of the World Rally Championship, Speedway Grand Prix of Great Britain,...
.

On 29 August 2005 Holland married his girlfriend of fifteen years, Christabel McEwen, the former wife of Edward Lambton, 7th Earl of Durham. The wedding at St James's Church, Cooling

Cooling

Cooling is the Heat transfer of thermal energy via thermal radiation, heat conduction or convection. It may also refer to:...
near Rochester, was attended by stars including Ringo Starr

Ringo Starr

Richard Starkey Order of the British Empire , better known by his stage name Ringo Starr, is an England musician, singer-songwriter and actor, best known as the drummer for The Beatles....
, Robbie Coltrane

Robbie Coltrane

Robbie Coltrane, Order of the British Empire , is a Scottish actor, comedian and author....
and Stephen Fry

Stephen Fry

Lenny Henry

Lenworth George Henry Order of the British Empire is an England actor, writer and comedian....
and his wife Dawn French

Dawn French

'Dawn Roma French' is an United Kingdom actor, writer and comedian. In her career, she has been nominated for six BAFTA Television Award. She is best-known for starring in and writing her sketch comedy, French and Saunders, alongside her comedy partner Jennifer Saunders, and for playing the lead role of Geraldine Granger in the sitcom Th...
, Jennifer Saunders

Jennifer Saunders

Jennifer Jane Saunders is a BAFTA Award and Emmy Award-winning England comedienne, screenwriter and actress.She first came into widespread attention in the 1980s and the early 1990s when she became a member of The Comic Strip after graduating from the Central School of Speech and Drama....
and her husband Adrian Edmondson

Adrian Edmondson

Adrian Charles "Ade" Edmondson is an England actor, comedian, film director and writer. He is probably best known for his comedic roles as the stereotypical violent punk rocker Vyvyan Basterd in The Young Ones , and Eddie Hitler in Bottom , which he also wrote together with co-star Rik Mayall, his long-time double act....
, film director Tim Pope

Tim Pope

Timothy Michael Pope is a film director most famous for his music videos, having directed film, and for a brief pop music career....
with girlfriend actress Victoria Scarborough, and singer Lulu

Lulu (singer)

Lulu Kennedy-Cairns, Order of British Empire, , best known by her stage name Lulu, is a Scotland singer-songwriter, actress, model and television personality, who has been successful in the entertainment business from the 1960s through to the present day....
.

In September 2006 he was appointed a Deputy Lieutenant

Deputy Lieutenant

Capital Gold

Gold is a network of oldies radio stations which was formed by the merger of the Capital Gold network and the Classic Gold Digital Network in August 2007....
.

Holland is also a Hammond organ

Hammond organ

The Hammond organ is an electronic organ which was invented by Laurens Hammond in 1934 and manufactured by the Hammond Organ Company. While the Hammond organ was originally sold to Church as a lower-cost alternative to the wind-driven pipe organ, in the 1960s and 1970s, it became a standard keyboard instrument for jazz, blues, Rock and r...
player, and was seen demonstrating his skills to Jo Brand

Jo Brand

Josephine "Jo" Grace Brand is an England comedienne....
in the BBC documentary series Play It Again
Play It Again

Play It Again is a Documentary film Television program on BBC One, featuring celebrity trying to learn to play musical instruments. The series is produced Diverse Production and started on 25 March 2007 and is narrator by Tamsin Greig....
.

He is also known for his charity work; in June 2006 he performed in Southend for HIV / AIDS charity Mildmay, and in early 2007 he performed at Wells

Wells Cathedral

Wells Cathedral is a Church of England cathedral in Wells, Somerset, England. It is the seat of the Bishop of Bath and Wells, who lives at the adjacent Bishop's Palace, Wells....
and Rochester Cathedral

Rochester Cathedral

Rochester Cathedral, or the Cathedral Church of Christ and the Blessed Virgin Mary, is a Norman architecture church in Rochester, Kent. Bishop of Rochester is second oldest in England: only Canterbury is older....
s to raise money for maintaining cathedral buildings. He is also patron of the - and has raised many thousands for the charity.

Jools Holland was awarded an honorary fellow of Canterbury Christ Church University at a ceremony held at Canterbury Cathedral on 30th January, 2009.

Writing

His autobiography, Barefaced Lies and Boogie Woogie Boasts (Michael Joseph Ltd, October 2007) was BBC Radio 4

BBC Radio 4

BBC Radio 4 is a domestic UK radio station that broadcasts a wide variety of spoken-word programmes, including news, drama, comedy, science and history....
Book of the Week in the week beginning 8 October 2007 and was read by Holland himself. He is the author or joint author of four other books.

Discography

1978 "Boogie Woogie '78" (EP
Gramophone record

A gramophone record is an analog signal sound storage medium consisting of a flat disc with an inscribed modulated spiral groove usually starting near the periphery and ending near the centre of the disc....
)
1981 Jools Holland and His Millionaires
1984 Jools Holland Meets Rock 'A' Boogie Billy (U.S. release only)
1990 World Of His Own
1991 The Full Complement
1992 "Together Again" (single
Single (music)

In the record industry, a single is a song usually used from a current or upcoming album to promote the album. Singles are distributed through a number of ways; originally, they were packaged as "single" records with one or two other songs and sold before the release of the album....
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
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
Single (music)

In the record industry, a single is a song usually used from a current or upcoming album to promote the album. Singles are distributed through a number of ways; originally, they were packaged as "single" records with one or two other songs and sold before the release of the album....
with Ruby Turner
Ruby Turner

Ruby Turner is a United Kingdom soul music singing, songwriter and actor. Turner moved to Handsworth, West Midlands, Birmingham, England when she was nine years old, in 1967....
)

Film and television

1981 Urgh! A Music War
Urgh! A Music War

Urgh! A Music War is a United Kingdom film released in 1981 in film featuring performances by punk rock, New Wave music, and post-punk acts, filmed in 1980....
1982 Police: Around the World
1982 The Tube (Episodes 1.5-1.9)
1983 Rebellious Jukebox: Compere
1984 The Young Ones: Punk (Episode entitled "Summer Holiday")
1985 Walking To New Orleans (Jools Holland in New Orleans)
1987 Eat the Rich: Sun Reporter
1987 Filthy Rich & Catflap: Strip Show Pianist (Episode #1.3)
1987 The Laughing Prisoner: No. 7
1987 French and Saunders (Episode 1.5)
1988 Sunday Night: Host (unknown episodes)
1989 Juke Box Jury: Host (unknown episodes)
1992 - present: Later with Jools Holland
Later with Jools Holland

Later... with Jools Holland is a contemporary United Kingdom music Television program hosted by Jools Holland. A spin-off of The Late Show , it has been running without a break since 1992 and is a part of BBC Two's late-night line-up, usually around 11PM....
(presenter)
1994 There's No Business: Pianist
1997 Spice World: Musical Director
2000 Jools Holland's Annual Hootenany
2001 Jools Holland's Annual Hootenany
2002 Jools Holland's Annual Hootenany
2003 Jool's History of the Piano : Presenter
2003 Jools Holland's Annual Hootenany
2004 Jools Holland's Annual Hootenany
2005 Jools Holland's Annual Hootenany
2006 Jools Holland's Annual Hootenany
2007 Fairport@Forty: Interview
2007 Top Gear
Top Gear (current format)

Top Gear is a BAFTA, multi-National Television Awards and International Emmy Award-winning BBC television series about motor vehicles, primarily automobile....
: Star in a reasonably priced car.
2007 Jools Holland's Annual Hootenany
2008 Jools Holland's Annual Hootenany

Books

"Rolling Stones": A Life on the Road, (with Dora Loewenstein), Viking/Allen Lane (1998), (ISBN 0670880515)
Beat Route: Journeys Through Six Counties, Weidenfeld & Nicholson (1998), (ISBN 0575067004)
Ray Charles: Man and Music, (with Michael Lydon), Payback Press (1999), (ISBN 0862419298)
Hand That Changed Its Mind , International Music Publications (2007), (ISBN 1843286459)
Barefaced Lies and Boogie-woogie Boasts , Michael Joseph Ltd (2007), (ISBN 0718149157)

Jools Holland

Biography

Writing

Discography

Film and television

Books

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