Julian Miles Holland, OBE, DL is an English pianist, bandleader, singer, composer and television presenter. He has worked with many artists including Jayne County, Sting, Eric Clapton, Mark Knopfler, George Harrison, David Gilmour, Magazine, The The and Bono. Since 1992, he has hosted Later… with Jools Holland, a music-based show aired on BBC2.
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Julian Miles Holland, OBE, DL is an English pianist, bandleader, singer, composer and television presenter. He was an original member of the band Squeeze and has worked with many artists including Jayne County, Sting, Eric Clapton, Mark Knopfler, George Harrison, David Gilmour, Magazine, The The and Bono. Since 1992, he has hosted Later… with Jools Holland, a music-based show aired on BBC2, on which his annual show Hootenanny is based. Holland is a published author and appears on television shows besides his own and contributes to radio shows.
In 2004 he collaborated with Tom Jones on an album of traditional R&B music. In September 2006, Holland was appointed a Deputy Lieutenant for Kent. He received an OBE in the Queen’s Birthday Honours list for services to the British music industry in 2003. He lives in the Westcombe Park area of Blackheath in SouthEast London, where he had his studio, Helicon Mountain, built to his design and inspired by Portmeirion, the setting for the 1960s TV series The Prisoner. He also owns a manor house near medieval Cooling Castle in Kent.
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