# Leo Sayer has met everyone – rock legends, sport superstars, future presidents …

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Podcast: [Word In Your Ear](https://stenobird.com/podcast/word-in-your-ear-4162240)
Published: 2026-06-02T11:26:56+00:00
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## Resource

Leo Sayer burst onto national telly in 1973 dressed as a Pierrot with the Show Must Go On launching a 50-year career in colourful company – songwriters, boxing legends, swindling managers, scurrilous socialites – and learning a great deal in the process. “Don’t underestimate the idiots!” is the hard-won advice. He’s touring in October and joins us here from Australia to look back at …   … how he and Linda Ronstadt escaped from Trump’s gruesome penthouse   … walking through Memphis dressed as a clown   … seeing Lonnie Donegan invent skiffle, Dylan at the Albert Hall and Bob Marley at the Lyceum from the side of the stage   … when Paul Kossoff asked him to audition for Free   … designing record sleeves for Marley, Roger Daltrey, Humble Pie and Quintessence   … “I’m the Forrest Gump of the music industry – nearly there!”   … “working with Adam Faith was like having Marlon Brando as your acting coach”   … the advice Paul McCartney gave him in 1973   … “Do you mind if I vomit in your shoe?”   … and a week in a training camp with Muhammad Ali.   Order Leo Sayer tickets here: https://tix.to/LeoLive26   Order the ‘Leothology’ box-set here: https://www.roughtrade.com/product/leo-sayer/leothology-the-studio-albums-1973-now Help us to keep The Longest Continuous Conversation In Rock going: https://www.patreon.com/wordinyourear Help us to keep The Longest Continuous Conversation In Rock'n'Roll going: https://www.patreon.com/wordinyourear Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

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