Jools Holland

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Julian Miles "Jools" Holland, OBE, born 24 January 1958, is an English pianist, bandleader, guitarist, composer, and television presenter.

He was a founding member of Squeeze, and his collaboration with many musicians including Sting, Eric Clapton, Mark Knopfler, George Harrison, The The and Bono. He has hosted Later... with Jools Holland, a music-based show on BBC2, where his annual show Hootenanny is based.

Holland is a published author and appears on television shows other than his own, as well as contributing to radio programs.

He collaborated with Tom Jones on an album of traditional R&B music in 2004. On BBC Radio 2, Holland also hosts Jools Holland, a mix of live and recorded music, general chat, and members of his orchestra.

Education

Holland was educated at Shooters Hill Grammar School in southeast London, from which he was banned for damaging a teacher's Triumph Herald.

Personal life

Holland lived with his grandparents as a child, which he described anecdote in a 2020 episode of Rhod Gilbert's Growing Pains.

George Leahy and his sister Rose, along with his ex girlfriend Mary Leahy, have a son and daughter, Rose. On August 30, 2005, Holland married Christabel McEwen, his girlfriend of 15 years and niece of artist Rory McEwen. Mabel Lambton, the couple's daughter, and McEwen has a son, Frederick Lambton, Viscount Lambton, by her ex-marriage to Ned Lambton, the 7th Earl of Durham.

Holland lives in Westcombe Park, south east London, where he created Helicon Mountain, which was inspired by Portmeirion, the setting for the 1960s TV series The Prisoner. In Kent, he also has a manor house near the medieval Cooling Castle.

In January 2019, he appeared on the front page of the Railway Modeller magazine. Holland has spent ten years on a 100-foot (30 m) model railway in the attic of his house. It is brimming with miniature buildings and landscapes from Berlin to London. He began with photographs and paintings from the early 1960s in London. "He builds some trains and buildings in the evenings before turning on some music, pouring a glass of wine, and watching them move around the room," The Daily Telegraph says.

In 2003, he was awarded an OBE for his contributions to the British music industry as a television host and performer. Holland was named as a Deputy Lieutenant for Kent in September 2006. At a service held at Canterbury Cathedral on January 30, 2009, Holland was named an honorary fellow of Canterbury Christ Church University. He was named honorary colonel of 101 (City of London) Engineer Regiment on February 1, 2011.

Holland performed in Southend for HIV/AIDS charity Mildmay in June 2006, and in early 2007, he performed at Wells and Rochester Cathedrals to raise funds for maintaining cathedral buildings. He is also a fan of Drake Music.

In 1987, a fan of the 1960s TV show The Prisoner, a film director who starred in a spoof documentary titled The Laughing Prisoner with Stephen Fry, Terence Alexander, and Hugh Laurie. The majority of the film was shot on location in Portmeirion, France, with archive footage of Patrick McGoohan and Siouxsie and the Banshees, Magnum, and XTC. Towards the end of the program, Holland did a few things.

Holland appeared in the 1997 film Spiceworld as a musical producer, and as an interviewer for The Beatles Anthology TV project.

In 2009, Holland commissioned Bangla Bangers (Chop Shop) to produce a recreation of the Rover JET1 for personal use. Cats have also owned cats in Holland.

Holland was elected President of the British Watch & Clock Makers Guild in 2018.

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Career

Holland began his career as a session pianist. Wayne County & the Electric Chairs' first studio session was in 1976 on their track "Fuck Off."

Holland, a founding member of the British pop band Squeeze, formed in March 1974, played keyboards until 1980, the eponymous Squeeze, Cool for Cats, and Argybargy before starting his solo career.

In 1978, Holland began releasing solo records, with his first EP being Boogie Woogie '78. He continued his solo career into the early 1980s, recording an album and several singles between 1981 and 1984. He branched out into television, co-presenting the Newcastle-based TV music show The Tube with Paula Yates. In one early evening TV trailer for the show, Holland used the phrase, "be there or be an ungroove fucker," causing him to be banned from the program for six weeks. Rowland Rivron, a comedian, referred to this in his sitcom The Groovy Fellers. On MTV, Holland also appeared as a guest host.

Holland performed a long piano solo on The The's re-recording of "Uncertain Smile" for the album Soul Mining in 1983. Squeeze (which had existed in Holland during the 1980s) unexpectedly regrouped, with Holland as their keyboard player. Holland remained in the band until 1990, when he departed to resume his solo career as a musician and a TV host.

Holland formed the Jools Holland Big Band, which consisted of himself and the show Gilson Lavis of Squeeze, which later grew to Jools Holland's Rhythm and Blues Orchestra, which was renamed as Jools Holland's Rhythm and Blues Orchestra. Louise Marshall, Ruby Turner, Holland's daughter Mabel Ray, Mabel Ray's younger brother, singer-songwriter, and keyboard player Christopher Holland performed in May 2022.

During the two seasons of the music performance series on NBC late-night television, Holland performed and co-hosted alongside David Sanborn between 1988 and 1990. Eve Hootenanny, an annual New Year's Eve, has been hosting the music festival Later This Summer with Jools Holland.

Holland signed a recording deal with Warner Bros. Records in 1996, and his albums are now available on Rhino Records.

Holland appeared at the Concert for George on November 29, 2002, which celebrated George Harrison's music. In January 2005, Holland and his band appeared with Eric Clapton as the Tsunami Relief Cardiff headline act.

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