BEST known for his work producing the fledgling Sex Pistols, and his 1975 top 20 hit Motor Biking, guitar hero Chris Spedding is still very much a working musician.

In the week his latest album Joyland is released Spedding talks about how the album came together and his love of the city music scene.

“I was in Burgess Hill for a while from 2008. I played a lot in Brighton, doing some of Herbie Flowers’ Jazz Breakfasts at the Brighton Dome Corn Exchange and some Brighton Beach Boys concerts, too, when their regular guitarist was indisposed. When I finally moved here I was already familiar with the vibrant Brighton music scene. There's a lot of good stuff going on and there are some really talented musicians here.

“The Joyland album came together after I'd guested on a couple of albums for LA-based independent record company Cleopatra. They must have liked my contributions because they asked me to do my own record with my own guests. It was all their idea!

“I've been collaborating on and off with Steve Parsons since we had a band together – the Sharks – in the early 1970s. The band broke up but we didn't. The tracks came together quite quickly. It got a bit complicated when our chosen guests weren't always available and we had to wait for some of them to come on board. But we finally got everything done, and we're very pleased with everyone's contribution. About half the material was already written and half was written – or adapted – for a specific guest once we knew they were on board.

“It’s not practical to tour this album because we'd never get all the guests together at once! [Joyland features appearances from Johnny Marr, Bryan Ferry, Andy MacKay, Arthur Brown and Ian McShane].If there’s enough interest I’ll do some shows with my trio and if one or two of my guests are up for it, who knows...?

“I have some ambitions left, but Elvis is dead and Bob Dylan must have lost my phone number.”

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