Chords for Paul Young - Today Extra interview May 2016

_ A lot of tape on that microphone, isn't there?
Fantastic [A] voice.
Our next guest is behind some of the most loved songs
from the 80s.
And after a bit of a 20 year break,
[Am] Paul Young is back making music again.
Check [F] it out.
♪ Every time [Dm] you go, _
_ _ [Gm] you think of me.
[C] _
♪
In [F] the 80s, no mixtape would have been complete
[Dm] without a dose of Paul Young.
♪ Wherever [Eb] I'm laying my [F] head, that's [Bb] my home.
♪
[Gm] Over the years, he transitioned from front man
to [Bb] solo artist to fully fledged teen [F] idol.
For some reason, he's known as [C] a sex symbol
and I can't imagine [Eb] why.
Oh, Sir Bob, I could tell you why, because [F] he's awesome.
And his new album is called Good Thing, Paul Young.
Good to speak to [Am] you this morning.
That's [G] great to hear that quote from Bob.
Is that the most generous thing he's ever said to you? _
Probably, yeah, yeah.
I do bump into him quite a lot.
We've shared musicians over the years
and Bob is a character.
You cannot get the better of him.
Because you did Live Aid and no pressure.
[C] I remember picking that up and now [F] thinking about it now,
looking back, it was like,
oh my God, you were the first [A] person to sing on that.
It was sort of a make or break [C] album.
No one had ever done that before.
And you're the first sound we really hear.
In terms of success, I was the youngest star there.
[E] Because the Americans are still going,
[B] they're going, well, I know who boy George is.
That's George Michael over there.
Who's this guy?
Yeah.
Who's doing the first line.
So, and that's how new it was.
So I was a little bit in awe of everyone that was there.
Was it [F] an incredible experience?
Because you all were [C] stuck in the studio
for like 24 [D] hours or something, am I right?
They were making decisions as they were going along.
So it was, right, who's going to sing this part?
_ [Dm] _ [C] Shall we do all the regional accents that we can do now?
Yeah, that's it.
All right, who should be singing this one then?
Well, we don't want to give it to Paul.
No, that was Irish.
That's right.
You two all of a sudden [G] jumped in.
Now look, the 80s were a huge decade for you.
I mean, you had so many hits.
I've already told you off air
that I'm a massive fan of yours,
but you also, you met your wife.
So tell us about how you wooed her, Paul.
Yeah.
_ Yeah, I was doing,
I did the video for Come Back and Stay.
_ [Gb] And when I met the video director,
he said, right, we're going to cast a girl
because obviously she's pretty feisty.
Yeah.
So, because you've been messing around
and she's kicked you out.
So you want her back,
but she's not sure if she wants you back.
So they auditioned Stacey
and she had to slap me around a bit in the video
to teach me.
The error of my ways.
And we're still together.
Yes, what a great way to start,
is her really showing dominance
in the relationship early on.
Exactly, yeah.
[G] Now, that decade you got to meet so many legends.
You were talking about it before.
You got to meet David Bowie,
the late great David Bowie.
And you said that was a real pinch me moment.
Tell us about that. _
_ Yeah.
What it is with Bowie,
because he comes from the art school side of music
and I come from the kind of working class R&B side.
So the way he worked _ wouldn't be a natural thing for me.
So whenever [N] I'd buy Bowie albums,
I'd be kind of dissecting and going,
how did he decide to do this and to do that?
So meeting him,
one, I was in awe of him
because I really appreciated the music that he'd made.
And I wanted to know what his thinking was.
But also he was an absolute gentleman.
He was the quintessential [E] British gentleman.
[G] His manners were impeccable.
[F] I know he always talks about he had his downside
when he was deep into drugs and stuff like that.
But the essence of the person was that he was a gentleman.
And it's interesting you're talking about
the different styles of music you two had.
I mean, let's go back to when you started out
because as you say,
you're a bit working class boy [E] yourself,
different to David Bowie,
but you sort of had to overcome a stutter
and that's how you got into singing.
Is that right?
_ [Dm] _ Yeah, well, if I look back on it now,
using my psychologist side,
I would say that it [Gm] was a good thing
that I decided to do that
because the one thing they [G] teach you if you have a stutter
is if [F] you speak to a rhythm like this type of thing,
[Dm] then you're less likely to stutter.
And [Gm] so music does exactly the same thing.
[F] Yeah, it does indeed.
And [C] thank God you started to sing.
That's all I have to say.
You've got a new album.
I want to get onto this.
[G] You're first in 20 years.
Why have you kept us waiting so long?
_ _ Well, the thing is,
I created a rod for my own back
because I like a lot of different styles of music.
Well, it's time [Db] for a new tour down in Australia,
we think, Paul,
with a good new album that [F] you know,
you've got a lot of fans down here.
I told you, I called up a radio [Bb] station
to win an album of yours back as a young lad
in South Australia.
You've got to come back and tour.
_ [Gb] You don't have to ask me twice.
I'm just looking for the [A] weakest [E] excuse.
I'll be down [Gb] there.
All right, rubber arms, I'm going to hold you to that.
Paul Young's brand new album, Good Thing, is out now.
Go grab yourself a copy.
[C] Paul, what a great honour to speak to