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Julian Miles Holland (born 24 January 1958) is an English
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, bandleader, singer, composer and television presenter. He was an original member of the band Squeeze and has worked with many artists including
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. From 1982 until 1987, Holland co-presented the
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music programme ''
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''. Since 1992, he has hosted '' Later... with Jools Holland'', a music-based show aired on
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, on which his annual show ''
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'' is based. Holland is a published author and appears on television shows besides his own. He regularly hosted the programme ''Jools Holland'' on
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. In 2004 he collaborated with Welsh singer Tom Jones on an album of traditional R&B music. He achieved his first UK number one album in 2024 with ''
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'', a collaboration with Rod Stewart.


Early life and education

Holland was born on 24 January 1958 in Blackheath, southeast London. At the age of eight, he could play the piano fluently by ear. By his early teens he was appearing regularly in many of the pubs in southeast London and the East End Docks. Holland was educated at Shooters Hill Grammar School in southeast London, from which he was expelled for damaging a teacher's
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.


Career

Holland began his career as a
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. His first studio session was with
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in 1976 on their track "
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". Holland was a founding member of the British pop band Squeeze, formed in March 1974, in which he played keyboards until 1980, through its first three albums, the eponymous '' Squeeze'', '' Cool for Cats'' and '' Argybargy'', 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
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-based TV music show ''
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'' with
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. Holland used the phrase, "be there, or be an ungroovy fucker" in one early evening TV trailer for the show, live across two channels, causing him to be suspended from the show for six weeks. He referred to this in his sitcom ''The Groovy Fellers'' with
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. In 1983, Holland played an extended piano solo on
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's re-recording of "Uncertain Smile" for their album ''
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''. In 1985, Squeeze (which had continued in Holland's absence through to 1982) unexpectedly regrouped including Holland as their keyboard player. Holland remained in the band until 1990, at which point he again departed to resume his solo career as a musician and a TV host. In 1987, Holland formed the Jools Holland Big Band, which consisted of himself and for the show
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from Squeeze, which gradually grew and was renamed as
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. In May 2022, it was a 17-piece orchestra and included singers Louise Marshall,
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and Holland's daughter Mabel Ray, as well as his younger brother, singer-songwriter and keyboard player,
Christopher Holland Christopher William Holland is an English keyboard player, singer and songwriter. He is the younger brother of pianist and band-leader Jools Holland. Career Holland left school at 16 to concentrate on his first band, B Sharp, with twin brot ...
. Between 1988 and 1990 Holland performed and co-hosted along with
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during the two seasons of the music performance programme '' Sunday Night'' on
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late-night television. Since 1992, he has presented the music programme '' Later... with Jools Holland'', plus an annual New Year's Eve ''
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''. In 1996, Holland signed a
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with
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, and his records are now marketed through
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. On 29 November 2002, Holland was in the ensemble of musicians who performed at the
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, which celebrated the music of
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. In January 2005 Holland and his band performed with
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as the headline act of the
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. In 2004 he collaborated with Welsh singer Tom Jones on an album of traditional R&B music. On
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Holland regularly hosted the programme ''Jools Holland'', a mix of live and recorded music and general chat, featuring studio guests, along with members of his orchestra. Holland currently hosts the music magazine programme ''Earlier with Jools Holland'' on
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at 12.00 - 13.00 on Saturdays. In March 2023,
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announced the formation of supergroup The Barnestormers, featuring Barnes,
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,
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, Jools Holland and
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. A self-titled album was released on 26 May 2023. He achieved his first UK number one album in 2024 with ''
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'', a collaboration with
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.


Personal life

As a teenager, Holland lived with his grandparents, which he mentioned anecdotally in a 2020 episode of ''
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's Growing Pains''. Holland has a son, George, and daughter, Rose, with his former partner Mary Leahy. On 30 August 2005, Holland married Christabel McEwen, his girlfriend of 15 years and daughter of artist Rory McEwen. The couple have a daughter, Mabel, and McEwen has a son, Frederick Lambton, Viscount Lambton, by her former marriage to Ned Lambton, the 7th Earl of Durham. Holland lives in
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, southeast London, where he had his studio, Helicon Mountain, built to his design and inspired by
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, the setting for the 1960s TV series ''
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''. He also owns a manor house near the medieval
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in Kent. He appeared on the cover of ''
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'' magazine in January 2019. In the attic of his house, Holland has spent ten years building a
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. It is full of miniature buildings and landscapes that stretch from
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to London. He started with photographs and paintings from early 1960s London. According to ''
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'', "In the evenings, he builds some trains and buildings before switching on some music, pouring a glass of wine and switching on the trains to watch them move around the room." He received an
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in 2003 in the
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list, for services to the British music industry as a television presenter and musician. In September 2006, Holland was appointed a Deputy Lieutenant for
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. Holland was appointed an
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of
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at a ceremony held at
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on 30 January 2009. On 1 February 2011 he was appointed honorary colonel of
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. Holland has been the President of the British Watch & Clock Makers Guild since 2018, and an honorary
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of the
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since 2019. In June 2006, Holland performed in
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for HIV/AIDS charity Mildmay, and in early 2007 he performed at Wells and
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s to raise money for maintaining cathedral buildings. He is also patron of Drake Music. A fan of the 1960s TV series ''The Prisoner'', in 1987 Holland demonstrated his love of the series and starred in a spoof documentary, ''The Laughing Prisoner'', with
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,
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and
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. Much of it was shot on location in Portmeirion, with archive footage of
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. It featured musical selections by
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, Magnum and
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. Holland performed a number towards the end of the programme. Holland was an interviewer for ''
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'' TV project, and appeared in the 1997 film '' Spiceworld'' as a musical director. In 2009, Holland commissioned TV series '' Bangla Bangers'' (''Chop Shop'') to create a replica of the
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for personal use.


Writing

His 2007
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, ''Barefaced Lies and Boogie-Woogie Boasts'', was
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's "Book of the Week" in the week beginning 8 October 2007 and was read by Holland.


Discography


Charting and certified albums


Releases


Guest appearances


Film and television


Current television programmes

* 1992–present '' Later... with Jools Holland'' * 1993–present ''
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'' *2020–present ''
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'' with ''
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''


Books

* ''"Rolling Stones": A Life on the Road'' (with Dora Loewenstein), Viking/Allen Lane (1998) () * ''Beat Route: Journeys Through Six Counties'', Weidenfeld & Nicolson (1998) () * ''Ray Charles: Man and Music'', (with Michael Lydon), Payback Press (1999) () * ''Hand That Changed Its Mind'', International Music Publications (2007) () * ''Barefaced Lies and Boogie-woogie Boasts'',
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(2007) ()


References


External links

* * *
''Earlier... with Jools Holland''
(BBC Radio 3)
''Later...with Jools Holland''
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