Chords for Elkie Brooks Interview on Loose Women

[Eb] I'll be never under partition,
[Db] happy coming of the new [Cm] one,
and _ _ [Fm] _ no reason why [Db] I can't [Bb] give him all my love.
I'm gonna make [Gm] you love me,
_ yes I will,
_ [F] yes I will. _ _
[Bb] I'm gonna make you [Gm] love me, _
[Gm] yes I will,
_ yes I [Fm] will.
Woo!
Please welcome Anki [Eb] Brock!
Woo! _
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[C] _ _ _ _ [N] I can't believe it, Elkie Brock!
Oh my God, I loved watching you and hearing you.
It was just fantastic.
You took us right back then you did, Elkie.
I loved that.
Look at those outfits.
Little brassy top and the whole_
Yeah, I'm still wearing them, you know.
_ _ You're funny. _
Now, I started reading this book,
I haven't gone quite to the end,
but Elkie Brock's Finding My Voice,
your autobiography.
Why now?
_ Oh, well, I thought, you know,
if I don't do it, somebody else will.
And they'll make me do it.
And get it all wrong, you know.
My dear husband Trevor said, you know,
you gotta do it, you gotta do it,
and a great friend of mine, Wolf Pine,
who was the executive producer on my album,
suggested, yep, Elk, go on, you gotta do it.
Somebody will do it and get it all wrong.
Did you like going back, though, to the beginning
and going over all the memories and everything?
Was it upsetting sometimes?
_ _ Well, yeah, but, you know, what I did,
I got all my old press cuttings out,
I got all the old photographs,
and then I did it like that, you know,
in chronological order.
You know, I can just about say that,
I'm not in that agreement. _ _
Chronological.
I was doing this thing yesterday,
a literary lunch, and it took me ages,
you know, to sort of say, literary, literary, literary.
Literary lunch.
Yeah, you know, because I get tongue-tied.
I hate doing sort of like talking,
I specialise, I sing.
Elkie, you were on the stage at 13.
I know, but I sing, I specialise in singing.
Yeah, different.
But talking, you know, oh, dear.
Yesterday they wanted me to do this speech
and I went, oh, no.
I'll tell you what, Elkie, you should have sang the speech
if you got up and sung it.
Yeah, that's true.
Well, this is what I thought, you know,
if it all goes wrong, you know,
because they just wanted me to do just a few words
and then read the first chapter of the book.
And I used to be terrible at school.
I mean, I know you weren't, you know,
the Queen of Britain over there.
But, you know, I used to be terrible.
I was always stuttering and I said to them, I said,
look, if I cock up, I said I'm sorry.
You know, and now, but I knew that if all else fails,
I'll sing them a song.
_ Can I ask you one question?
I know you started singing in clubs and touring
when you were only 13 years old,
but I want to know what it was like
to be on stage with the Beatles.
_ _ _ Well, actually_
You did two weeks ago, didn't you?
Yeah, well, yeah, I think it was a week,
to be honest, Janet.
_ _ The girls were all screaming through the show and everything.
It wasn't just me, it was all the other artists
on the show as well.
Where was it?
Which, where was it?
Well, it was then the Hammersmith Odeon,
which is now the Apollo.
Yeah, yeah.
Which, funnily enough, I was there in _ 2010,
I think it was, when we did a tribute to Humphrey Littleton.
Well, a celebration, really, of his music.
And I had the same dressing room there
that I had when I was with the Beatles.
But, to be honest with you,
I never really got to know any of them.
You know, I can't sort of say that I did, really.
Were you supporting them?
Oh, yes, loads of other artists were as well.
The Yardbirds were on there.
Were you in Vinegar Joe at that time, then?
Oh, no, no, no, this was _ 1964.
You must have been about four.
No, you were only four years old.
_ I saw the Beatles then and I was one of the screamers.
Oh, you, oh, God.
I'm amazed you're still speaking to me.
_ I've done that sort of thing.
And they still do it today.
I don't understand it.
But, Elfie, tell me about being in Vinegar Joe,
cos it was such a fantastic vibe.
Oh, yes, well, we certainly had our ups and downs, you know.
Lots of booze.
Lots of touring.
Lots of touring and lots of other things as well,
but, you know, we won't talk about that on here.
Robert Palmer was in the band, wasn't he?
Oh, yes, there's a beautiful photograph.
You've got to see the photograph.
I'll find it.
Of Robert and I taken by_
Oh, there it is.
By Garrod Mankiewicz.
He's a great pic.
It's great.
Robert is most devilishly handsome.
I mean, he looked amazing there, didn't he?
Was he a lovely man?
Well, you know, he could have his on and off days.
I mean, it's very difficult when you're working with people 24-7.
It really is, you know.
There were moments where, you know, we could be a bit uppity,
but I treasure the moments when we used to go
and have a little _ drink together
and go to the bistro instead of just sort of like, you know,
going to the local cafe like all the band used to do.
That was lovely, you know, and we'd have a bottle of wine.
So I treasure those moments, I really do.
He was a wonderful man.
You in your day were a very controversial singer.
Do you think that people are still controversial today
or do you feel it a bit boring now?
I think there's always been an element of people being a bit, you know_
Yeah, but is it better now or worse or did you enjoy your time
or what do you think of today?
Well, to me, I hated the 60s.
Me too.
I really, really, really did because I just didn't seem to fit in.
The 70s for me were fantastic because I was in Dada
and then later Vinegar Joe. _ _
Unfortunately, the band, it folded and I had to go on my own
and it's taken me a long time now
to actually feel comfortable in the business, you know.
I mean, I'm actually enjoying it and I'm enjoying my music, I really am.
And you're still very active, aren't you?
I mean, touring and records and all sorts of different things.
Oh, yeah, yeah, yeah.
You know, it keeps the weight off.
_ _ _ _ _ _ I work at it, I really do.
Do you?
Yeah, I'm careful what I eat and I exercise a lot.
I exercise every morning.
You do hula hooping as well?
I do hula hooping.
They got a hula hoop for me yesterday at this literary lunch. _
I couldn't believe it.
This guy got a hula hoop.
I thought, well, that'll break the ice, won't it?
And there I was doing the hula hoop this way.
Fantastic.
Well, you heard that I said on the radio
that I could give Grace Jones a run for her money.
She did that, didn't she?
I've got a proper weighted one like she's got.
But, you know, she can sing that song of hers all the way through.
You know, that's about a four-minute song and still keep it going.
But as I say, I'm getting there. _
_ _ Well, all the best with your hula hooping
and obviously with the touring and everything
and particularly with your book, Elkie Brooks,
Finding My Voice, her autobiography.
Elkie, thank you so much for being live on the news.
Thank you, Elkie Brooks. _ _ _ _ _
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