Robert Llewellyn is a British actor, comedian, presenter and writer. He plays the mechanoid Kryten in the TV sci-fi sitcom Red Dwarf and formerly presented the TV engineering gameshow Scrapheap Challenge. He also presents a YouTube series, Fully Charged. Llewellyn was born in Northampton, Northamptonshire, England. Llewellyn's first foray into the world of show business started out as a hobby, organising a few amateur cabaret evenings in a riverside warehouse overlooking Tower Bridge in London. The shows were a great success and he eventually helped form an alternative comedy theatre group called the Joeys. Within six months he had stopped working as a shoemaker and started performing professionally with the group alongside Bernie Evans, Nigel Ordish and Graham Allum. The group toured Britain and France in the early 1980s with an initial idea of exploring sexual politics between men. Llewellyn wrote much of the material, and also began writing novels. The group split in 1985, having toured for years and done thousands of shows.
Lyrics to the song that was inspired by the interview:
ELECTRIC MAYBELLENE
As I was motivatin' over the hill
I saw Maybellene in a Coupé de Ville
A Cadillac a-rollin on the open stretch
Nothin' will outrun my Tesla S
The Cadillac doin' 'bout 95
She bumper to bumper, rollin' side by side
Oh Maybellene well you won't get far
Nothing outruns an electric car
The Cadillac pulled up at 104
The Tesla hot and wouldn't do no more
It done got cloudy and started to rain
I tooted my horn for the passin' lane
The rain water blowin' all under my hood
I knew that wasn't doin' my battery good
Maybellene well you won't get far
Nothing outruns an electric car
Breaker breaker
You got your ears on caddy?
What's your 20?
Seen a county mounty
in a plain white wrapper
10-4
The motor cooled down, the heat went down
And that's when I heard that highway sound
Cadillac sittin' like toad on a lake
A 110, a half mile ahead
The Cadillac lookin' like it's sittin' still
And I caught Maybellene at the top of the hill
Maybellene well you won't get far
Nothing outruns an electric car
Oh Maybellene, why can't you be true?
You done started back doin' the things you used to do
Maybellene, why can't you see?
You're draining my batteries
Maybellene, why can't you be true?
Why do you do? The things you do?
Maybellene, please see
How you're draining my batteries
ELECTRIC CARS (ft. Helen Austin)
Electric cars, electric cars
Why's it taking so long?
If you want your air clean, forget dirty gasoline
Switch to an electric car
Electric cars, electric cars
Funkier by far
Never have I seen a sexier machine
I want to get in an electric car
I want to give joy to all whom I meet
Don't want to leave behind smelly streets
Electric cars, electric cars
Come on now it's common sense
With so much air pollution, can you think of a solution?
Dumbo, get in an electric car
Electric cars, electric cars
The time has come time to change
If you want your air clean, forget dirty gasoline
Switch to an electric car
I want to give joy to all I meet
Don't want to leave behind smelly streets
I want to soar
I want to surge
A revolution
We're on the verge
I want fresh air
That's pure a clean
Like the future
Of my dreams
Electric cars, electric cars
Where were you all of my life?
Only when you've met one will you know you're gonna get one
There's no way back from electric cars
Electric cars, electric cars
Why's it taking so long?
If you want your air clean, forget dirty gasoline
Switch to an electric car
I want to give joy to all whom I meet
Don't want to leave behind smelly streets