Mark King and Level 42 have just announced 2025 tour dates and he talks to us here about …

… the value of what you learn in covers bands from being ignored.

… why being thrown out of home for being thrown out of school was the best thing that ever happened to him.

… Level 42’s first gig, kicked off after four songs.

… Chile, Turkey and other new markets on the “flatter world” tour circuit.

… supporting the Police, Tina Turner, Queen and Madonna in the ‘80s.

… how John McLaughlin (from Doncaster) and Allan Holdsworth (Bradford) inspired other people “from far-flung places like us”.

… Rockin’ Robin, Long-Haired Lover From Liverpool and playing three nights a week in an Isle of Wight novelty act, aged 11.

… the onstage dynamic between Dave Grohl and Taylor Hawkins.

… the complications of having to book big venues two years in advance.

… being the bassist in the Prince’s Trust house band backing Bowie and Mick Jagger.

… Billy Cobham, Chick Corea, Stanley Clarke and “the genius” of Steve Winwood.

An exclusive interview with legendary singer and bassist Mark King of Level 42.

Courtesy of Kim Brouns/Tessa Frissen Media/RTV Parkstad

Mark King of Level 42 interviewed by Music-News.com Editor – Marco Gandolfi – at the O2 Silver Clef Awards, Grosvenor House Hotel on London’s Park Lane on June 30th 2023.

Interview with Mark King, before the show on the Night of the Proms Summer Edition 2023 in Koksijde. (BEL) About the Night of the Proms crew family, looking back tot he 80’s and what about his first bass guitar? Mark’s favourite Level 42 album cover? And how did the song ‘Hot Water’ come about?