Jools Holland

His favorite songs are "What Christmas Means To Me" by Stevie Wonder, "Get Away Jordan" by Dorothy Love Coates, "Silent Night" by 'Mahalia Jackson', "I Can Make It Thru The Days" by Ray Charles, "I'm Ready" by Fats Domino, "Message To My Son" by Solomon Burke and Eric Clapton, "May You Never" by John Martyn, "Walk Back In" by 'Keb' Mo', "If You Love Me" by Van Morrison and B.B. King and "Feel Like Going Home" by Charlie Rich. (Source: BBC Radio 2 "Tracks of My Years").
Keyboard player for Squeeze and the Jools Holland Big Band.
He was awarded the O.B.E. (Officer of the order of the British Empire) in the 2003 Queen's Birthday Honours List for his services to music.
The first single he bought was "For Once In My Life" by Stevie Wonder.
In 1990; he had his father charged, convicted & imprisoned for stealing his then girlfriend's £35,000 valued jewelry. his father was housesitting for his son & holland's girlfriend (christabel McEwen, now holland's wife) at their house where the theft occurred whilst the couple were away on holiday.

On being awarded the OBE (Officer of the Order of the British Empire) I am tremendously honoured to received this award and proud that the art of booge-ing has been officially recognised.
He (Ringo Starr) is one of the greats. I've played with him and he can not only do the boom-splat pretty well but as soon as you start to boogie he locks into that. I can see why The Beatles snapped him up. He invented a load of stuff and is one of the most important drummers in history.
Almost every group that is a success - The Beatles, Stones (The Rolling Stones), Oasis, Squeeze - they all start off with a drummer they have to sack and get another one in. You can get away with not being the best bassist or guitar player but the drummer has to be absolutely bang on it.
I think there's a view that only ghosts, lunatics and people on the sofa want to watch music programmes.
When I started on The Tube (1982), I realised I asked too many questions. Then I read this book by Commander Burt of Scotland Yard, who was the person who interrogated Nazi war criminals and got confessions out of all of them. His secret was to relax them and then say absolutely nothing. The person was so desperate to unburden themselves they just started talking.