EP144 - Mark Cooper - Co-creator 'Later... with Jools Holland' + Record Mirror Music Journalist

Episode 144: Mark Cooper... Co-creator and founding
producer of 'Later... with Jools Holland' and the annual
Hootenanny plus Record Mirror Magazine Music Journalist and
more...


My podcast guest on Episode 144 has a completely unique story
from music journalist in the time of The Jam to co-creator of a
music TV show that has featured Paul Weller more than any other
artist.


Mark Cooper is another stunner of a guest, and
WOW... What a storyteller!.


We dive in to the early days of The Jam as punk and new wave hits
the US, finding Mark as a student who starts writing about gigs
stateside. He then lands a job back home for Record Mirror,
reviewing albums and singles, interview bands, musicians, singers
and songwriters including Paul Weller in a wonderful interview
with the headline of The Jam: Whine, Women and
Song in the issue published on 17 July 1982


We also dig in to the incredible story of Later… with
Jools Holland.


Mark is the co-creator and founding producer of the show and of
the annual Hootenanny, booking and shaping both for 26 years
without missing a single recording. So we hear all about it's
creation to it's build into a musical and TV institution.... and
so many stories of appearances and collaborations from our
podcast subject - Paul Weller...


Mark also led the BBC's TV coverage of Glastonbury from a muddy
1997 until a locked down 20020 and executive producer over 250
BBC music documentaries including the Britannia and America
strands and the year-by-year Top of the Pops histories.


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