Jools Holland 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 '80s. 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, but television was his calling. In 1992, he launched Later…With Jools Holland, a live music program that became a British institution in the ensuing decades, staying on the air into the 2020s. While Later remained on the air, Holland continued recording and touring with the Jools Holland Big Band.