Excellent comments Pete, you and I come from the era where we called a spade a spade! End of.

“The further a society drifts from the truth, the more it will hate those who speak it.” - George Orwell

It's the death of honesty.

Always enjoy watching and listening to Pete. He is one guy I would like to meet and chat with.

So true. What we need at this time is more people expressing their opinion.

Johnny Rotten wont bend the knee to that rubbish.

Great content. Enjoyable to hear his opinions on a broader topic base.. not just music... but very appreciated! thanks @GBNEWS

We live in such a weird society now and I can’t see anyway out of all this nonsense it appears to be getting worse if anything

We tell each other lies and distrust everyone. Just the way the Left like it.

15 thumbs down? Channel 4 fans up early today. This man, Pete Waterman, is a music God.

You can express what you want as long as it does not involve our diverse culture who can do no wrong.

My biggest fear is being in a coma- with Ed Shearan's music playing on a never ending loop- though if that happens, I'm already dead and Lucifer's the DJ.

Working class hero …. Absolutely 👍 (Interesting you mentioned Jonny Rotten ! Have a listen to some of John Lyndon’s recent rants! He makes a great deal of sense.)

Aw Pete 🤗❤️ he’s a good egg 🥚

Mr Waterman is a good egg. Also has the largest model railway in Britain, confirming his status for nuts like me.

Gab, telegram, meet in public, go to the pub.... Oh I dunno maybe just abandon the parasite controlled platforms.

I'd always thought SAW music as happy music. It brought so much joy to me even now. Music today is sadly lacking in that department and it would have to be something special to get me up boogieing.

I auditioned for Popstars, the Rivals.....lol, I met Pete Waterman on the steps of the Lowry a few days before, and thought I'd hand him a copy of a demo I'd made of a song I thought would be right up his street. He brushed me off and said it was against the rules. I didn't know about the contest or what he was going on about. Anyway I decided to go for it after talking to my workmates who encouraged me, if only to get back at Pete! He of course recognised me when I was in the crowd with my guitar entertaining the troops singing songs by Sparks. I was interviewed on Granada twice, which thankfully friends had seen that day. It was hilarious...I did my audition later in the day with four other auditionees and sang "New Age" by Lou Reed. The others were doing the usual predictable audition repertoire. I performed well but never got past that initial stage, but hey, the judge said "It's nice to hear music for a change.." That said it all for me.

Great man. Great talent in his own right

Stock, Aitken & Waterman wrote some fantastic songs. Pete is a legend. We're losing these great people.

Speech seperates us from the Animal Kingdom, elevates us as a Species in communication and intelligence. Speech acts as a 'pressure valve' and enables us to air our grievences with each other without Violence. Take that vocal ' pressure valve' away by curtailing Free Speech and you create a condition where Violence to settle dissagreements then becomes inevitable.

Pete Waterman is awesome. Great interview.

Pete Waterman is a great guy , produced some fantastic music and he has a passion for railways both model and the real thing like myself. So Ive got to be a fan!! Steam on Pete!!

I'm.. 50 a.n.d m.y. husband 54 we are both retired with over $3 million in net worth and no dept's. Currently living smart and frugal with our money.serving and investing life style in the stock market made it possible for us this early even till now we earn weekly. Thanks to fire movement.

But Pete, none of those songs you wrote for the ponies in your stable had anything to say either.

we all should ware a yellow star to remind people where the rats in our government are taking us all. if we let them. public hangings nothing less will do.

"To the grave," if certain public figures are to be believed...

I know it's all too convenient now to play a song on KZfaq etc but I still love to own the real McCoy on CD/Cassette/Vinyl + regardless we will always get music in it's hard form for xmas and birthdays

Nice one Pete. Big up the Cov massive.❤️

I appreciate that he continues to speak so highly of Donna Summer. She was my all-time favorite, and the album they did together was brilliant.

What a lovely, sensible bloke

Oh the nostalgia. You never know what you've got till it's gone 😢😕🙄😔

Interesting to hear his take on current issues but the idea that he, Cowell and the rest of the cookie-cutter 'star' manufacturing operations of that ilk was about creating great music is a joke. They operated a conveyor belt of prefabricated bands and solo artists with as much attention to quality and innovation as MFI used to put into their flat-pack furniture. They weren't choosing the best artists, they were choosing the ones that would fit nicely into pre-defined marketing slots, it was a very slick operation of course, very clever and very lucrative, but it wasn't about music. There was a big clue in the name 'Hit Factory'. The fact that some of their 'creations' did so well was almost entirely down to marketing and hype, and, sadly, a lamentably undiscriminating public. Musical talent or genuine creativity on the part of the artists was an incidental bonus. Nothing against the guy, he's a very successful producer and businessman, and probably a good laugh to have a drink with but seeing pop idol as some kind of golden age of great music is just a reflection of how awful and tawdry the current mainstream 'music', is. A very small number of notable exceptions aside, but they almost invariably didn't get created by a producer.

YOU CAN'T CONTROL A PLANET that's so arrogant

Why do people think they can't express their opinions?

Great interview, really enjoyed it.

*What about Diversity "taking the knee" during Black Lives Matter themed Britain's Got Talent !*

You need to bring on young people who will positively influence their peers on these issues. With respect they will not listen to Pete however correct he may be.

Definitely a generational thing. The youth is woke. The future is woke. Will the pendulum swing the other way or is it stuck forever?

But when sportsmen and women or musicians express their opinions, then the gammons get triggered and complain.

Well said Pete

Great interview, Thanks what a hero!

Hurtful truths or comforting lies!

Great interview.. wish it was longer. Always enjoy listening to what PW has to say. I dont agree with his climate change views but as he said ' you have to express your opinion'.

There has never been a time in any liberal democracy where anything can be ‘expressed’ without consequences.

If there is really a 'cancel culture', who's controlling it? No one has cancelled freedom of expression in UK. Sure we have the Equality Act, but it's up to every one of us to keep EXPRESSING our opinions - out of genuine belief and not pure prejudice - and *as importantly* to LISTEN respectfully to the opinions of others. Replacing conversation with rant has created much of bad feeling and causing offence when opinions shouldn't do. To some extent the reality/ talent show/ instant celeb TV 'industry' that PW helped to create dug its own pit in creating a soft, luvvy, cuddly, glitzy, self-congratulatory environment for young people. No wonder many now feel so falsely emboldened and entitled that they easily take offence when a different opinion is voiced.

He had me until he said HS2 will save the planet

You can express your opinion anywhere as long as you accept it might be wrong if you don't have the knowledge to support it, every one has a right to an opinion however every opinion is not right

Legend

What does Pete call people with a cervix?

Pete was the funniest ever on the Peter kay show.

Big up Pete speaking it proper and true

Top bloke

You can stick by a decision and still have regrets.

Spot on

This fuel crisis was engineered by people who to use it to argue we need to move away from oil. The was no need to let the public the will will be a shortage of fuel when they knew people will panic buy.

Brilliant!

OK granddad, whatever you say. "Insipid?" Pot, meet kettle

Here's a thought, is the lefty MP Angela Raynor allowed a free opinion too? Maybe we could lead by example and allow her 'scum' comments - even if we disagree

Could not express my opinions on what he did to the so called music industry.

Not nostalgic for pop stars or X factor at all. It ushered in the death of the charts which meant the death of top of the pops. That said, he’s produced some incredible songs in his time

You need to bring Pete on again! Perhaps on Talking Pints?

On point

You are allowed to have political songs now as long as its the right politics, otherwise you'll be cancelled or the media will be overly dramatic with you

It's not where you go, but where you tell them to go.

Great to see the 'hitman' again, and this is it for me, all the talk was of pop idol or whatever it was but for me, there was only one program worth getting home from the pub for back in the late 80's 'The Hitman and Her'. I was around 18 at the time and was in love with the show, the music, and of course, Michaela Strachen.

Go to Milton Keynes Marshall arena on the weekend of mid October if you want to meet him in real life and enjoy his main hobby love in life of his very long accurate model railway layout on display at the Hornby trai show . I met him at similar ones and got a photo with him too and a long train chat and guaranteed no security of his around !

Say what you think and feel! How someone reacts is down to them and whatever their going through! Truth of the matter is im basically giving myself advice here as to how i should really be around people when realistically im the polar opposite to this!

😂 👍 hilarious

I miss the 90s and 00s. Simon Cowell wouldn't last long on TV now. It was only the 2010s when he was last big.

I have always said that if you cannot sit down opposite people you disagree with and talk about the disagreement, then there is only one direction the situation can go. You do not even need to come to a conclusion, but you at least need the ability to work things out. Once diplomacy is over conflict becomes the only option left. Always beware of those people who try to silence the other side. Personally I always welcome people I disagree with to openly state their ideas and intentions, that way I either get to examine the situation more closely or I get to be the smartest guy in the room if their ideas are terrible... win/win!

There have always been controls on artists such as film stars contracted to studios from the earliest days. In more recent times, The Beatles found there were consequences for saying the 'wrong thing' and so it is today. The difference now is social media where keyboard warriors react without thinking.

PETE IS OK... IT'S THAT OTHER ONE

But, Pete, you ARE expressing your opinion, aren't you?

Imagine the scenes if they had Darius on too for a debate!

Good ol' Pete!

With HS2, it should be a monorail, it should be magneto, it shouldn’t be 18th-century buildings

I can honestly see this all turning to civil war

Peter Waterman is it true u use WOLF skins in your cars?

Where do we go ? To the labour party of course !☺

Anyone who slates Stock, Aitken and Waterman wasn't enjoying mainstream nightclub life late 80s early 90s. And yes I equally enjoyed the Madchester or acid house scene at that, time, but some nights you just wanted to go out and have a blast on a bird called Sharon in stilettos and that was the music of love 🍆

Who says that GB news don't give diverse opinions on broader topics other than right wing views

We can all go to the gulag

Didn’t know you worked with Donna Summer. 😎👍

Seems like you're supposed to hand over the keys, then quietly walk into the sea.

Hitman and her...always on tv after nightclub

You can always talk to a wall...

Save the planet, Build HS2!!! Oh dear pete😒Stick to your model trains👍

To 4chan of course, or Tor.

There's still some that have the guts to go solo and be independent that also put the work into getting seen. Tom MacDonald is the most straight talking of them all a Canadian living in America, but his songs cut across the borders because of how widespread the issues are now

That is why i listern to oi! british music that tells the truth from a working class point of view. And yes it was branded racist and the truth is NO MANIPULATION OR CURRUPTION and it dont go with there agenda. Have a listern you might learn some thing?

Ask Dan Andrews...

Pete always talks common sense

To the gulag Pete eventually ….

I HATED Stock Aitken and Waterman back in the day. But looking back now some of the tunes were pretty good and you have to admire Pete's achievements considering his difficult background.

What are “singooze”? Does he mean singles?

HS2, can't see how getting from London to Birmingham, Manchester and Leeds quicker will save the planet.

A brexiteer :-)

My mother Told us to tell the truth and shame the devil. I do and I'm still upsetting people but I'm not bothered you don't like it sorry I'm still not bothered

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