I had to put me foot down with the first record company. It was about 1975, when singers were being given names like Gary Glitter and Alvin Stardust, so they wanted to call me Benny Santini just because me dad's an Irish-Italian with an ice-cream business!
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I actually, truly do love my family. It's not a public relations exercise.
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I do have this big weakness: I over-cooperate with people. People say it's because I'm Irish-Italian from Middlesbrough, and me dad was always like that, y'know - 'Get the job done.'
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When I came down south and was put together with big producers, I always thought that they knew best. I never thought for a minute that they might have another agenda.
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I live halfway between London and the airport, which means I can operate my European career and get home every night. It costs a lot of money, but it's worth it.
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The record companies didn't want 'Stony Road,' and it ended up being a gold album. They didn't want 'Blue Guitars,' and we did 165,000 books.
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I'm never happy with anything I've done! If you sat me down and played everything I've ever recorded, I'd just sit there going, 'No... that could be better.'
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You can't have F1 without Ferrari - you just can't have it. It's part of the theme that is the red car, and a lot of it is to do with the colour.
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I never got the chance to put drums on 'Watersigns,' because the company was in a rush to release it - and me.
