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Biography
Infobox musical artist | name = Jools Holland| image = Jools Holland at the BAFTA's.jpg| caption = Holland at the British Academy Television Awards 2009 | image_size = | background = solo_singer| birth_name = Julian Miles Holland| alias =| birth_date = Birth date and age|1958|01|24|df=yes| birth_place = Blackheath, London|Blackheath , London, England| instrument = Piano, keyboard, guitar| genre = Boogie-woogie , jazz , blues , R& B | occupation = Musician , composer , Presenter|television presenter , bandleader | years_active = 1974–present| label =| associated_acts = Squeeze (band)|Squeeze Rhythm & Blues Orchestra| website = http://www.joolsholland.com/ Official site Julian Miles "Jools" Holland Order of the British Empire|OBE , Deputy Lieutenant|DL (born 24 January 1958) is an English pianist, bandleader, singer, composer, and television presenter. He was a founder of the band Squeeze (band)|Squeeze (1974-1980 & 1985-1990) and his work has involved him with many artists including Sting (musician)|Sting , Eric Clapton , George Harrison , David Gilmour , Magazine (band)|Magazine and Bono .
Holland is a published author and appears on television shows besides his own and contributes to radio shows. In 2004, he collaborated with Tom Jones (singer)|Tom Jones on an album of traditional R& B music. He currently hosts Later... with Jools Holland , a music-based show aired on BBC2 , on which his annual show Hootenanny (UK TV series)|Hootenanny , is based.cite web |url= http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b008rqnv |title=BBC Later With Jools Holland |accessdate=2011-04-13
Life and career
His great grandfather came from Ireland.cite news| url= http://www.telegraph.co.uk/family/familyhistory/3354288/Family-detective-Jools-Holland.html | location=London | work=The Daily Telegraph | first=Nick | last=Barratt | title=Family detective: Jools Holland | date=28 July 2007
Holland played as a session musician before finding fame, and his first studio session was with Wayne County & the Electric Chairs in 1976 on their track "F*ck Off."
Holland was a founding member of the British pop band Squeeze (band)|Squeeze , formed in March 1974, in which he played keyboards until 1981 and helped the band to achieve millions of record sales, before pursuing his solo career.
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 upon Tyne|Newcastle -based TV music show The Tube (TV series)|The Tube with Paula Yates . 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 six weeks.cite web |url= http://www.laughingpoliceman.com/swear.htm |title=Laughing Policeman Wireless Society: History of Swearing |accessdate=2011-04-13 He referred to this in his sitcom "The Groovy Fellers" with Rowland Rivron .
In 1987, Holland formed The Jools Holland Big Band which consisted of himself and Gilson Lavis from Squeeze. This gradually became his 18-piece Rhythm & Blues Orchestra.cite web|url= http://www.joolsholland.com/aboutjools.htm|title=About Jools – Official site|accessdate=4 July 2007
Between 1988 and 1990 he performed and co-hosted along with David Sanborn during the two seasons of the music performance program Sunday Night (American TV program)|Sunday Night on NBC late-night television."Sunday Night" episodes #104 (1988), #113 (1989), #114 (1989), #121 (1989) Since 1992 he has presented the music program Later... with Jools Holland , plus an annual New Year's Eve Hootenanny (UK TV Show)|Hootenanny .
In 1996, Holland signed a recording contract with Warner Bros. Records , and his records are now marketed through Rhino Records .
Holland has a touring band, The Rhythm And Blues Orchestra, which often includes singers Sam Brown (singer)|Sam Brown and Ruby Turner . In January 2005 Holland and his band performed with Eric Clapton as the headline act of the Tsunami Relief Cardiff .
Personal
Holland lives in the Westcombe Park area of Blackheath, London|Blackheath in South East London, where he had his studio, Helicon Mountain, built to his design, inspired by Portmeirion , the setting for the 1960s TV series The Prisoner .cite web|url= http://www.joolsholland.com/biography.htm|title=About Jools – Biography – Official site|accessdate=11 November 2010Holland owns costumes and props from the series and occasionally appears wearing the trademark brown-with-white-pipe blazer featured in the series. In 1987, Holland demonstrated his love of the series and starred in a satire|spoof Documentary film|documentary , The Laughing Prisoner , with Stephen Fry , Terence Alexander and Hugh Laurie . Much of it was shot on location in Portmeirion, with archive footage of Patrick McGoohan , and featuring musical numbers from Siouxsie and the Banshees , Magnum (band)|Magnum and XTC . Holland performed a number towards the end of the program. His younger brother, Christopher Holland|Christopher , also plays organ in the Rhythm & Blues Orchestra, as well as being a singer-songwriter .
Holland was an interviewer for The Beatles Anthology TV project, and appeared in the 1997 film Spiceworld (film)|Spiceworld as a musical director.
He received an Order of the British Empire|OBE in 2003 in the Queen's Birthday Honours list, for services to the British music industry as a television presenter and musician. In September 2006 Holland was appointed a Deputy Lieutenant for Kent .cite news | last = Farndale | first = Nigel | authorlink = Nigel Farndale | title = A man in touch with his inner anorak | work = (Interview with Jools Holland) | publisher = Telegraph.co.uk | date = 19 November 2006 | url = http://www.telegraph.co.uk/culture/3656666/A-man-in-touch-with-his-inner-anorak.html | accessdate = 2009-08-19 | location=London He is also known for his charity work: in June 2006 he performed in Southend for HIV/AIDS charity Mildmay,cite web |url= http://www.thenetco.co.uk/mildmaynew/events.aspx? pg=events-joolshollandconcert |title=Jools Holland rocks the Park for Charity |accessdate=5 December 2007Dead link|date=September 2010|bot=H3llBot and in early 2007 he performed at Wells Cathedral|Wells and Rochester Cathedral s to raise money for maintaining cathedral buildings.cite web |url= http://www.easier.com/view/Lifestyle/Entertainment/Going_Out/article-95595.html |title=Jools Holland To Play UK Charity Concerts |date=25 January 2007 |accessdate=5 December 2007 He is also patron of the Drake Music Project http://www.drakemusicproject.org/makepage.asp? page=3b patrons, trustees and staff - Drake Music Project and has raised many thousands of pounds for the charity.
Holland was appointed an Honorary Fellow of Canterbury Christ Church University at a ceremony held at Canterbury Cathedral on 30 January 2009.cite web | title = Widdecombe, Holland and Underwood are appointed honorary fellows | publisher = Canterbury Christ Church University | date = 3 February 2009 | url = http://www.canterbury.ac.uk/News/newsRelease.asp? newsPk=1301 | accessdate = 2009-08-19
On 29 August 2005 Holland married Christabel McEwen, his girlfriend of 15 years (between 1983 and 1995 she had been married to Edward Lambton, 7th Earl of Durham , before they divorced). The wedding, at St James's Church, Cooling, Kent| Cooling near Rochester, Kent|Rochester , was attended by many celebrities, including Ringo Starr , Robbie Coltrane , Stephen Fry , Lenny Henry , NoelGallagher , Dawn French and Jennifer Saunders . http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/entertainment/4196900.stm BBC News 30 August 2005: Wedding bells for Jools Holland
Holland is also a patron for The Milton Rooms , an Arts centre in Malton, North Yorkshire , along with Bill Nighy , Imelda Staunton and Kathy Burke . http://www.themiltonrooms.com/ The Milton Rooms homepage
Writing
His 2007 biography, Barefaced Lies and Boogie Woogie Boasts was BBC Radio 4 "Book of the Week" in the week beginning 8 October 2007 and was read by Holland. He is the author or joint author of four other books.
Discography
See Also|Squeeze (band)|l1=Squeeze|Squeeze discography|l2=Squeeze discography
Albums that have charted and gained Certifications
Year
Album
Peak chart positions
Certifications List of music recording sales certifications
"Rolling Stones": A Life on the Road , (with Dora Loewenstein), Viking/Allen Lane (1998), (ISBN 0-670-88051-5)
Beat Route: Journeys Through Six Counties , Weidenfeld & Nicholson (1998), (ISBN 0-575-06700-4)
Ray Charles: Man and Music , (with Michael Lydon), Payback Press (1999), (ISBN 0-86241-929-8)
Hand That Changed Its Mind , International Music Publications (2007), (ISBN 1-84328-645-9)
Barefaced Lies and Boogie-woogie Boasts , Michael Joseph Ltd (2007), (ISBN 0-7181-4915-7)
References
Reflist
External links
Official website| http://www.joolsholland.com
IMDb name|0390735
BBC programme|b00738f4|Jools Holland's Radio 2 show
bbc.co.uk|later|Later...with Jools Holland
SqueezeBBC Radio 2Use dmy dates|date=March 2011
Persondata|NAME=Holland, Julian Miles |ALTERNATIVE NAMES=Holland, Jools |SHORT DESCRIPTION=Musician and television personality |DATE OF BIRTH=24 January 1958 |PLACE OF BIRTH=Blackheath, London, England |DATE OF DEATH= |PLACE OF DEATH= DEFAULTSORT:Holland, Jools Category:1958 births Category:Living people Category:Boogie-woogie pianists Category:English rock pianists Category:English television presenters Category:Officers of the Order of the British Empire Category:Bandleaders Category:Squeeze (band) members Category:I.R.S. Records artists Category:People from Blackheath, London Category:BBC Radio 2 presenters Category:Deputy Lieutenants of Kent Category:British people of Irish descent Category:English people of Irish descent
