19/09/2025
📢 is most famous for the song song Cuddly Toy, which has been a mainstay of radio airplay for over three decades and at its peak was selling 33,000 copies a day. Since then, he’s carved out a career for himself as one of the most compelling, and consistent, rock and soul artists the UK has produced. He has released 10 studio albums, several greatest hits collections, been invited to write for other artists including , and , and toured with contemporaries including and . For the past nine years, he has been part of +theMechanics, recording and playing live around the world with ’s post-Genesis band. Raised in south-east London, he comes from a musical family, his father is a drummer, his uncle a saxophonist whom Roachford was out on the road with from the age of 14. By 15, he was working in a studio with and in his early 20s, he signed a seven-album deal with Columbia, going on to be one of the label’s most successful acts for the next decade, with a string of hit singles and international successes. With talent that transcends the times, Roachford shows no signs of stopping and in this latest podcast interview, the team get his take on just what it takes to remain successful in the music industry.