This edition of the Chatterbox Redux podcast is brought to you in association with the Old Glory Iconic Music and Sports Superstore. More from them in a bit. Chatterbox. When the stars talk, they talk to Nick and Sue. Welcome back to the Chatterbox Redux podcast with Sue and Nick and today our special guest is Roger Moore's son, Geoffrey Jaffa Moore. This is Nick and Sue with Chatterbox giving you all you need to know
about music. My name is Michael Caine, and you are watching You and I. Now on Shatterbox UK, we're just lucky enough to welcome Jeffrey Jaffa Moore Jaffa. Welcome. How are you, sir? I'm very, very well. How are you? Thank you. Great. Thank you. And thank you for coming on Shatterbox. Okay, son of Roger Moore, godson to Frank Sinatra, and a friend to Hollywood's A -List. And you brought out a new album, single, and a wonderful all -star video to go along with it. And I urge
everyone to take a look at that. So, okay. Dad, great. My favorite, James Bond. So, and I understand you started in the music business, 1973, which I think was the year that he became Bond. So... Tell us all about how you got into it and how you got to where we are now with this album and single and so on. In 1985 I got a record deal with EMI and I worked with Mike Rutherford, Mike and the Mechanics. Moving forward to present day, I was writing for an artist at Universal.
and I was sending in the songs with the artist's notes on it and the, unfortunately, the artist couldn't show up on a couple of the songs and so they said, no, no, but send them anyway. I said, well, there's an engineer that's been doing a vocal, a guide so that they didn't waste time. So when they came in, they knew how to pitch and sort of deliver. the lines. And so he said, no, we'd like to meet the engineer. So I flew to London and I said, the engineer is coming.
And then after 10 minutes sitting in the room with John Cotton from Bright Recordings, Nova Universal, he said, he said, he's late. I go, well, actually, it's me. Okay, opposed to writing for somebody else. Now I'm writing for myself. And so So now that I'm writing for myself, like I said, the camera never lies, nor does the microphone. I feel far more confident and belief in what I'm singing. I remember singing a long time ago. And once again, I never call myself a singer.
I sort of come from a movie background, a film background. I did a film in 75 at Fox with John Huston. Being a son of an actor doesn't necessarily make me a good actor. see myself as the singer, so to speak. So now, yeah, I'm quite happy with the finished result. So I got up and sang at some party and someone came up to me and said, you know, you can really sing, you've got a great voice. So why don't you do this gig? I'll put
something on and invite some people. And I got up and I was... sweating the night before, because I go, oh my goodness, I mean, I really am not prepared for this. And there are so many people that are coming to hear me. And I look down in the audience and there was so -and -so and so -and -so and so -and -so. And I thought to myself, I'm really in trouble now. So I've got this sort of, where I'm really in trouble now when I get up on stage, but you're in more experience. So
I'll exhalate, but I still have that. that sort of cloud that lingers, you know, dark cloud that lingers every time I get up and sing, now that I'm speaking about it, I'm getting rid of the curse, so to speak. Well, I guess even when you did have those pre -stage nerves the night before, I guess the nerves are really the build -up to it, because once you're on that stage, and once that first note, you're singing the first note, you're there, you're doing it, and surely that
must be fine once you've done that. I would have thought. What was all the fuss? The issue, you know, when you get to a sort of certain age, have you heard the album? No, all I've done is heard the single so far. Absolutely wonderful. Of course, it's got the wonderful voice of the late Naya Riviera on there and Nile Rodgers as well. So I've heard the single and the single sounds absolutely amazing. So anyway, let's talk
about it. I mean the the point with Naya Rivera point with that she passed away I think in 2020 very sad and that so was she going to Release the song as a single as a solo or were you always
going to do do that with her? Yeah, this was this was part of My daughter Ambra helped me produce the video um was watching Glee and I walked by and I was mesmerized by her uh you know natural flamboyant um she just had such a sultry presence and such a beautiful voice as a god she'd be wonderful because you know let's face it we're going to make a video but if someone's hearing on the radio they don't know what what the girl looks like you can imagine
her voice that she's got to have, there's got to be, you know, she takes all the right boxes and her voice was just sensational. And so we said, right now we have to find a male singer to sing alongside her. I couldn't find anyone. So that's why I ended up singing alongside her. But no, this was part of the project she was giving her time. And I so wish she was here to talk about it with me. I know it would be amazing.
rest in peace but left us something very very special and of course i guess you know where you've uh where you've written that yourself you know exactly how it should be sung really so uh it just works it works as you say very sad out of interest um silly question you white jaffa how did you get that nickname in the middle ah okay great thank you and um talk about the album What tracks, I mean, do you have a favourite track from it or do you just love them all in
a different way? I tell you what, I think it's the mood, I mean. You know, Do I, the first song on the album is a real opera. There's a bit of everything. It's rock, it's sort of, you know, it's a tribute from the 70s where, you know, live instruments... then eventually became electronic ones in the eighties. And so the influence of that and having spent so much time in America is very much a west coast sound. And I was getting, you know, there's a bit of Tom Petty, but it
is for fears. And I was thinking, God, these are wonderful comparisons. I won't, I won't blush. This is great. But in terms of, you know, the, the one song I think you and I is that you're going to have to take that song to the desert island. I think that's the one you probably could listen to. more than in the other one, whether it's the better song. I think across the board, they're all good enough, if you see what I mean. I get that. That's hopefully amazing. So yeah,
I'm quite happy and I can't wait. If this thing really does fly, I can't wait for the second album because I've improved. I've learnt a lot from this writing process. And I mean, to put it all together, it took about a year in total to sing all the songs. and then sort of seven year build up to it. And I sort of just didn't feel I had enough body of work. And then after COVID, I wrote like 20 different songs on top
of what I've done now. So I know that if this works, the label are gonna go, all right, number two, let's go. And so I won't be wasting time
with that. As we say the video as you say in your press release is a must see and now we've an all -star lineup Michael Cain, Joan Collins, Joanna Lumley, Stephen Fry, Liam Neeson, Paris Hilton they're all there and more and it's just a great video and if people can get the opportunity it's on YouTube if you get the opportunity to see it please do I urge you to it's amazing absolutely
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really well for you. Now a couple of little stories, in fact you've got millions of them, in your press release it says one of your sort of anecdotes is being stalked by Michael Jackson. Am I allowed to ask you about that? It's funny how these things sort of snowball into something. I wasn't really stalked. I was at an Oscar party that was hosted by Swifty Lazar, who was one of the greatest publicists and he basically, I don't know if
you recall, from Nixon and Frost. he put he was the one that the bridge that interview yes yes yes yes yes and so uh swifty was it was a pioneer and he was the only one that that could throw an after after you know after the oscars the party and so they had this little restaurant in in uh in west hollywood called my maison and on every table a table of maybe 10 there were maybe seven tables of 10 and on every table there was four four or five oscars So everyone who
was a recipient or was close to getting it were invited. And so it was just to see a room of these gold statues everywhere. And I was the youngest guy there. I was in a renter tux. That's how young I was. And I go into the restroom and he walks in and I look up and I thought to myself, today, when I look back, I think, goodness, if I would have had a smartphone. Because no one would believe me in school, so I just never said
anything. He walked in with a glove and the Carrera glasses, you know, when he was just, you know, thriller. And he said, who, you know, hey, what's going on, man? I said, well, I'm here. My dad gave an award. Who's your dad? I said, Simon Templer. And he said, my mother's favorite. Can I meet him? So I walked across this room and I noticed that everyone was turning their heads. So he was definitely a big deal. And I bring him over to my dad's table and they sit and he
says, Come and have a seat. Nice to meet you, young man. Come and have a seat. And so thereafter, we sort of stayed in touch. And then I'm sitting in Sinatra's dressing room, and Sammy David brings him in to meet Frank, and Sammy says, Frank, this is... He goes, yeah, I know who he is. How you doing, kid? He said, I'm great, Mr. Sinatra. How are you? I'm fantastic. And I was sitting on this couch in the corner. And then he turns and looks at me and goes, hey, Jeff, how's it
going? You should have seen the look on the face of Sammy Davis and Frank Sinatra. What the heck did you deserve to be called Jeff, you know, better than us. Terrific. Terrific. That was my war hole moment. And one other one. One last story. You apparently you had your first alcoholic drink in a Las Vegas casino with Frank Sinatra, among many others. So, yeah. Yes, yes, I had five whiskey old fashions and at the time I was, it wasn't actually in Vegas, it was in the south
of France. in in in monaco very strange flavors of all places and yes he he kept ordering me a drink and i just think he was he was testing me to see how i could handle it on this fifth drink um i would still like you know tapping the glass on the table going no problem keep them coming you know and then by the time i had my fifth i could barely walk and i felt his his hand on my shoulder and he said i got you kid keep walking Lovely. I love that very much. It
was my first experience, yes. Brilliant. So, Jaffa, okay, let's do your social media stuff and chuck it all at them now so they can have a look at you and your website, et cetera, et cetera, whatever you have. You know what, the joke is, you know, our generation invented this technology. I'm the last to know how to use it. Can I? How do I get this to you? I tell you what, I can do something. And Jaffer, I see you've got some social media. So we have a Facebook
profile. That's easy to find. And Twitter is twitter .com forward slash more Swiss, as in spelled by L surname, more Swiss. and also instagram
nice and easy to find is instagram .com forward slash jeffrey moore so a nice social media presence there so that's the single you and i featuring uh naya uh rivera uh bless her and niall rogers and the album is called photograph what else brilliant Every success, Jaffer, and it's been an absolute pleasure having you on Chatterbox, and I'll get a copy of you to hear via your social media. Okay, sir? Thank you. It's been an absolute pleasure having you. Thank you so much. Thanks
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