Today Eurorock has the undoubted pleasure of interviewing Danny Peyronel. What better way to start the week? Problem for me is, where the hell do you start? This is a guy whose career has taken him from the Heavy Metal Kids (great band!), to UFO, and Tarzen, and that’s just for starters.
He wrote “Midnight At The Lost & Found” for Meatloaf. He has written for Sade, Nick Mason, and David Gilmour; produced bands; and released Make The Monkey Dance, a solo album that really deserves to be heard. One of rock’s unsung heroes, he is both horribly talented and a really nice guy, despite being a Juventus FC and a Ferrari fan.
So here goes, I hope you enjoy the interview and follow it up by visiting Danny’s site. Don’t forget to grab a copy of that album whilst there.
We first got in touch when I started pestering you about the new Heavy Metal Kids album. So how’s it going?
The album is going at a steady pace, and of course, taking way longer than we hoped. We did our first album in nine days, and the second in ten. This will probably clock in at a good six months!
As you know I am up here in the wet, cold bit of France and you are down there in the sunny south. You have moved around a fair bit: Argentina, London, Los Angeles, Spain, Milan. How long have you been down in the south of France?
We’ve been here for five years now and we love it.
You were born in Argentina, is that where you grew up?
The question of where I grew up is not an easy one to answer. For starters, three of my grandparents were from the north of Italy and one from the French Pyrénées, so Italian and French in various dialects, was spoken at home, as well as Spanish.
When I was seven we moved to the U.S. for a couple of years and, after having attended an English Day School down in Argentina for a couple of years previous and not getting very far with the lingo, I returned a fully-fledged yank kid who thought he spoke much better than any of his teachers. Probably true, as well.
As a teenager, I lived in New York City and attended music school there. I then moved to London, where I spent what I consider my most formative years, starting my pro career, meeting my girl, and starting our family, etc. This period was so formative for me, that I like to consider myself a Londoner. I have more in common with another Londoner of a similar age, than with anybody from any other place. It’s a cultural thing, of course: the telly, the music, the scene in general.
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