THE last-ever interview with Batley-born rock legend Robert Palmer is to be screened on TV tomorrow.

The hour-long documentary, My Kinda People, goes out on Yorkshire Television at 11.30pm.

Palmer, 54, recorded the programme on September 24 at Ronnie Scott's club in Soho, London.

Just two days later he died of a heart attack while staying at a Paris hotel with his long-time partner, Mary Ambrose.

The programme was given the go-ahead to be broadcast by Palmer's family and his manager, Mick Cater, who had worked with him since 1974.

Palmer presents the documentary and examines his musical influences using television archive material, some of it not seen for more than 40 years.

Among the artists featured are blues stars Willie Dixon and Sonny Boy Williamson - from a 1963 programme I Hear The Blues - and Billie Holiday, from her last ever TV appearance on the 1959 Granada programme Chelsea at 9.

Palmer's rock and roll influences included Jerry Lee Lewis and Little Richard, whose performances from Granada shows in 1964 are both aired for the first time in nearly 40 years.

The show ends with rare archive of Otis Redding playing at London's Hammersmith Odeon, just nine months before he died in a plane crash.

Programme producer Mark Witty said: "The entire crew was in a state of shock when we found out the terrible news of Robert's death.

"But after getting permission for the programme to go ahead, we hope we've produced a fitting tribute to a great musician."