Guy Pratt

Guy Adam Pratt (born 3 January 1962) is an English bassist. He has worked with artists including Pink Floyd, Roxy Music, Gary Moore, Madonna, Peter Cetera, Michael Jackson, the Smiths, Robert Palmer, Echo & the Bunnymen, Tears for Fears, Icehouse, Bananarama, Iggy Pop, Tom Jones, Debbie Harry, Whitesnake, Womack & Womack, Kirsty MacColl, Coverdale–Page, Lemon Jelly, the Orb, All Saints, Stephen Duffy, Robbie Robertson and A. R. Rahman.

Pratt was a member of the Australian rock band Icehouse, a founding member of the American rock band Toy Matinee, and is currently a member of the band Nick Mason's Saucerful of Secrets.

Pratt has also worked on TV and film soundtracks, including Dick Tracy (1990), Last Action Hero (1993), Hackers (1995), Still Crazy (1998) and Johnny English Reborn (2011). In 2005 he debuted a one-man music and comedy show.

Since 2020 Pratt has co-hosted the podcast Rockonteurs alongside Gary Kemp, which features famous musicians discussing their lives and careers and often ranks at #1 on Apple Music podcast charts.

Pratt has been nominated for two Ivor Novello Awards and was awarded an ARIA Award for his work with Icehouse.

Early life, family and education Pratt was born on 3 January 1962, in a flat above a shop on the Cut, London. His father, Mike Pratt, was an actor (co-starring as Randall in Randall and Hopkirk (Deceased), songwriter and screenwriter who died when Guy was 14 years old.

Career Pratt initially worked as a graphic designer, but he decided to concentrate on a music career. In 1981, at age 19, Pratt was asked to tour with the Australian band Icehouse. Icehouse supported David Bowie on his Serious Moonlight Tour, which was Bowie's longest, largest and most successful concert tour.

In 1986, the Smiths bassist Andy Rourke was arrested on drug possession charges shortly before the Smiths were scheduled to leave for a North American tour in support of The Queen Is Dead. Expecting that Rourke would be denied work visas for the US and Canada, the guitarist, Johnny Marr, asked Pratt to step in. Pratt spent nearly two weeks with the band, learning basslines and rehearsing. Shortly before the band was to leave Britain, Rourke received his visas and Pratt was not required.

While Pratt was playing with the Dream Academy in the 1980s, he met the Pink Floyd guitarist David Gilmour, who was producing them. thumb Producer and keyboardist Patrick Leonard approached Pratt in 1988 about forming a band, and helping him recruit members of what would become Toy Matinee. Pratt co-wrote many of the songs and played bass on all of the tracks on Toy Matinee's only studio album, released in 1990. Pratt played bass on Gary Moore's Dark Days in Paradise tour in 1997. Pratt played on the 1989 Madonna single "Like a Prayer" and the 1995 Michael Jackson single "Earth Song".

Pratt is a songwriter and composes music for TV and film. As a songwriter, Pratt co-wrote the UK number-one hit "Ain't No Doubt" by Jimmy Nail. He produced, co-wrote and played bass, guitar and keyboards on the music for the 1998 Channel 4 drama series The Young Person's Guide to Becoming a Rock Star. With regular collaborator Dom Beken, he provided the theme music to Spaced, where he also appeared as the character Minty. Pratt also acted in Linda Green and appeared in an episode of the remake of Randall & Hopkirk, starring Vic Reeves and Bob Mortimer. Pratt's father Mike had played the part of Jeff Randall in the original 1960s series. Pratt also played as a regular in the backing band for the BBC Radio 2 musical comedy show Jammin' with Rowland Rivron.

Pratt and Jimmy Cauty released a single "I Wanna 1-2-1 With You" as Solid Gold Chartbusters in 1999; Pratt and Cauty (a founder of the Orb) later teamed up with the other original member of the Orb, Alex Paterson, to form Transit Kings.

Pratt's one-man music and comedy show, My Bass & Other Animals, debuted in August 2005 at the Edinburgh Festival Fringe. In 2007, he published a memoir with the same name. Pratt spent 2011 performing stand-up in Switzerland, Australia, and at the Edinburgh Fringe, as well as on a South American tour playing bass guitar for Dominic Miller.thumb Pratt in 2018In April 2010, Pratt joined the Argentine cover band the End Pink Floyd, with Durga McBroom and Jon Carin, in Buenos Aires, Argentina. He joined the Australian Pink Floyd Show on stage on 13 June 2011 for the Hampton Court Palace Festival for the song "Run Like Hell". He joined the UK Pink Floyd cover band Brit Floyd on stage on 9 November 2013 as a special guest during the Liverpool leg of their Pulse tour.

In 2018, Pratt and others formed a new band, Nick Mason's Saucerful of Secrets, to perform Pink Floyd's early psychedelic material. Along with Pratt, the band comprises Pink Floyd drummer Nick Mason, former Blockheads guitarist Lee Harris, vocalist and guitarist Gary Kemp of Spandau Ballet, and Pratt's collaborator keyboardist Dom Beken. The band toured Europe and North America in 2018 and 2019, with a third tour postponed to 2021 due to the COVID-19 pandemic. In September 2020, they released a live album and film, Live at the Roundhouse. During the COVID-19 pandemic, Pratt made a series of "Lockdown Licks" videos released on his YouTube channel, reminiscing about some of his best-known work. During and since the COVID-19 pandemic, Pratt has hosted the music-based podcast Rockonteurs with Gary Kemp.

Pratt has been nominated for two Ivor Novello Awards and was awarded an ARIA Award for his work with Icehouse.

Personal life Pratt married furniture designer Gala Wright, daughter of the Pink Floyd keyboardist Richard Wright, in 1996 in the Royal Borough of Kensington and Chelsea, London. The couple have a son. They later divorced.

In 2013, Pratt moved to Brighton. In 2019, he was announced as the general election candidate for the Renew Party in Brighton Kemptown. That March, he became engaged to the children's author Georgia Byng. Pratt now lives near Alfriston, where he rings church bells at St Andrew's Church.

Discography

1980s Year Title Artist 1984 Sidewalk Icehouse 1985 The Ups and Downs Stephen Duffy 1985 The Dream Academy The Dream Academy 1985 Riptide Robert Palmer 1985 "Discipline of Love" (single) Robert Palmer 1986 Measure for Measure Icehouse 1987 Luz Y Sombra Flans 1987 Remembrance Days The Dream Academy 1987 Bête Noire Bryan Ferry 1987 "Kiss and Tell" (single) Bryan Ferry 1987 "The Right Stuff" (single) Bryan Ferry 1988 One More Story Peter Cetera 1988 Delicate Sound of Thunder Pink Floyd 1989 Kite Kirsty MacColl 1989 Legend in a Loungeroom Andy Qunta 1989 Like a Prayer Madonna 1989 "Like a Prayer" (single) Madonna 1989 "Dear Jessie" (single) Madonna 1989 "Oh Father" (single) Madonna

1990s Year Title Artist1990 Wild and Lonely The Associates 1990 Naked Blue Pearl 1990 I'm Breathless Madonna 1990 Toy Matinee Toy Matinee1991 Ripe Banderas 1991 Pop Life Bananarama 1991 Long Road Junior Reid 1991 Electric Landlady Kirsty MacColl 1991 Storyville Robbie Robertson 1991 A Different Kind of Weather The Dream Academy 1991 The Orb's Adventures Beyond the Ultraworld The Orb 1992 Masterfile Icehouse 1992 Growing Up in Public Jimmy Nail 1992 U.F.Orb The Orb 1993 Debravation Debbie Harry 1993 Donna De Lory Donna De Lory 1993 Call Me Nightlife Nokko 1993 Elemental Tears for Fears 1994 Billy Pilgrim Billy Pilgrim 1994 Mamouna Bryan Ferry 1994 Well... Katey Sagal 1994 The Division Bell Pink Floyd 1994 "Take It Back" (single) Pink Floyd 1994 Heitor TP Heitor Pereira 1994 The Next Hundred Years Ted Hawkins 1994 Meanwhile Third Matinee 1994 Fruit of Life Wild Colonials 1995 Euroflake in Silverlake Gregory Gray 1995 HIStory: Past, Present and Future, Book I Michael Jackson 1995 Pulse Pink Floyd 1995 A Spanner in the Works Rod Stewart 1996 Raise the Pressure Electronic 1997 Dark Days in Paradise Gary Moore 1997 Blood on the Dance Floor: HIStory in the Mix Michael Jackson 1997 The Next Hundred Years [Gold Edition] Ted Hawkins 1997 Restless Heart David Coverdale & Whitesnake 1998 Dil Se.. for the song Dil Se Re A. R. Rahman 1998 Messiah Meets Progenitor Messiah 1998 The Ted Hawkins Story: Suffer No More Ted Hawkins 1999 What Are You Going to Do with Your Life? Echo & the Bunnymen 1999 Michael Hutchence Michael Hutchence 1999 Reload Tom Jones

2000s Year Title Artist 2000 Lemonjelly.ky Lemon Jelly 2000 Ronan Ronan Keating 2000 Somewhere in the Sun: Best of the Dream Academy The Dream Academy 2001 Born Bond 2001 Crystal Days: 1979-1999 Echo & the Bunnymen 2001 Jacob Young Jacob Young 2001 Bring Down the Moon Naimee Coleman 2001 White Lilies Island Natalie Imbruglia 2001 Read My Lips Sophie Ellis-Bextor 2001 Mixed Up World Pt. 2 Sophie Ellis-Bextor 2001 They Called Him Tin Tin Stephen Duffy 2001 Mink Car They Might Be Giants 2001 Toy Matinee: Special Edition Toy Matinee 2002 Watching Angels Mend Alex Lloyd 2002 Born [Japan Bonus Tracks] Bond 2002 Shine Bond 2002 Lost Horizons Lemon Jelly 2002 Festival Paola & Chiara 2003 Remixed [Japan Bonus Tracks] Bond 2003 Journey into Paradise Dr. Alex Paterson 2003 The Outer Marker Just Jack 2003 Shoot from the Hip Sophie Ellis-Bextor 2003 Reload [Bonus Tracks] Tom Jones 2004 Mistaken Identity Delta Goodrem 2004 Live at Montreux, 1997 Gary Moore 2005 Explosive: The Best of bond Bond 2005 A Million in Prizes: The Anthology Iggy Pop 2006 On an Island David Gilmour 2006 "Arnold Layne" (single) David Gilmour 2006 So Still Mozez 2006 Living in a Giant Candle Winking at God Transit Kings 2007 Dylanesque Bryan Ferry 2008 Live in Gdańsk David Gilmour

2010s Year Title Artist 2010 Olympia Bryan Ferry 2010 No Decoder Yogi Lang Band 2011 Everything Changes Julian Lennon 2012 Concerto for Group and Orchestra Jon Lord 2014 The Endless River Pink Floyd 2014 Avonmore Bryan Ferry 2015 Rattle That Lock David Gilmour 2017 Live at Pompeii David Gilmour 2019 Tales from Outer Space RPWL

2020s

Filmography Year Title Director(s) Studio(s) 1990 Dick Tracy Warren Beatty Touchstone PicturesSilver Screen PartnersMulholland Productions 1993 Last Action Hero John McTiernan Columbia Pictures 1995 Hackers Iain Softley United Artists 1998 Still Crazy Brian Gibson Columbia Pictures 2011 Johnny English Reborn Oliver Parker StudioCanalRelativity MediaWorking Title Films