Jools Holland

Jools Holland has parlayed his considerable skill as a boogie-woogie pianist into superstardom as a television host, a gig so popular in his British homeland he was awarded an OBE. It was an unlikely journey for a keyboardist who first came to fame as a founding member of Squeeze, one of the leading New Wave bands of the 1970s and 1980s. Holland left Squeeze just prior to their greatest commercial success, winding up co-presenting The Tube with Paula Yates. Holland would later return to Squeeze for a spell, forming his jump blues outfit the Jools Holland Big Band along the way...