Chords for Hugh Laurie meets Jazz Trombonist Chris Barber at Abbey Road Studios

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For the last 30 years, I have supported myself by pretending to be other [Bm] people.
[D] _ English toffs, _ thugs, [C] clowns, _ other English toffs.
[Bb] But all that time, I have been nurturing a secret, which I confess to you now.
[G] My name is Hugh Laurie, _ [D] and I love the blues. _
_ Well, he'll [G] bring me flowers while I'm living.
_ _ _ Back in the _ [C]
1950s, very [Dbm] few people in this country had even [G] heard of blues music.
There was one Englishman who knew what we were missing [Dm] and decided to change that.
[G] In so doing, he changed my life, and probably yours too,
because he changed the course of popular music.
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_ _ _ [Abm] _ _ _ He's a real hero of mine, and I'm [D] lucky enough to have the chance to meet him here at Abbey Road Studios for The One [Eb] Show.
I'm about to meet _ [Gb] the trombone [Eb] legend, Chris Barber.
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Your father was a violinist.
[Gb] He bought me a little fiddle, [Db] _ a child's house one, when I was seven.
And then [B] at school, during World War II, I had violin [Eb] lessons.
I stopped trying with the violin very quickly.
So you got your first trombone_ Much later. _ _ _ _ _ _
_ I had [G] heard some jazz on the radio.
[Cm] Someone said, that's jazz, [Eb] or whatever it was.
So I began to be interested.
One day I saw a sign [Ab] in a record shop, [G] a poster saying there'd be a jazz concert.
_ [G] Now, I had never [F] for a moment thought _ [Ab] that all I'd read and heard
would imply that anyone was going to play it in England.
So this was [Eb] from across the ocean?
Yeah, well, _ _ Mars, or _ something.
So I went to this concert, and [Ab] I walked down the aisle to get the seat, and there's music.
_ [A] The king of smokestack lightning, Howling [Gb] Wolf. _ _ _
_ Chris Barber [E] introduced a wave of American blues performers to this [N] country.
It had a massive influence on [D] those lucky enough to see them.
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_ _ So when you brought over these extraordinary legends,
what was the [Am] reaction of the audience?
They loved it.
They absolutely loved it.
They were surprised, I would say.
They got the strength of acceptance, of _ love for it, [Gb] immediately.
The sound of it was amazing.
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We were determined to [Gb] do what we could to get the music _ accepted at all in the first place,
but to get it understood and loved [D] by [C] more people. _ _ _
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Basically, it inspired a generation of British bands who would go [D] on to conquer the [G] world.
And the music that I play on [Eb] my own records, yes, [Bb] I had to get that in somewhere,
[Eb] has been directly influenced by Chris [Gb] Barber [Bb] and the artists he [Eb] brought to this country. _ _ _ _ _ _
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[Ebm] _ _ _ [Cm] _ [Ebm] You are in this extraordinary [Ab] position of _ brokering these [Cm] talents
going backwards and forwards across the [C] Atlantic.
Do you feel [Ab] a little like a man with a mission?
Of course, yes.
The mission was [Eb] to get people to understand how [D] important the music was
and take it seriously, [G] all of it.
[E] [Bb] And [Eb] I feel the same about it.
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