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The story of Wild Thing and whatever happened to World Cup songs?
Episode 899
Take your protein pills and put your helmet on as we voyage to the far side this week to take a picture of …
… the Kanye West & Wireless ding-dong
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6 hours ago
No Sex Pistols in Manchester? ‘No Smiths, Nirvana, indie rock.’ Discuss!
Episode 898
Howard Devoto and Pete Shelley read a review of the Sex Pistols in February 1976, borrowed a car, drove to London, asked the NME where they’d find th…
2 days, 20 hours ago
The Keith Moon story is a movie in waiting, both a comedy and a tragedy
Episode 897
The life of Keith Moon can be seen as Animal from the Muppets or as a dark, psychological odyssey. And the two co-exist in Tony Fletcher’s magnificen…
3 days, 12 hours ago
The shameless age of Britpop in ‘the wildest year of the 90s’
Episode 896
Dominic Mohan saw Britpop on the inside from the showbiz desk of the Sun in the days when it sold 4.5m copies, a series of heated memories recorded i…
4 days, 17 hours ago
Who hasn’t had ‘work done’, how to spot AI and the stupidest thing we ever did
Episode 895
A seasonal egg-hunt in the rock and roll backyard finds the following conversational confectionary …
.. Wild Bill Hickok? Valentino? Bob Dylan’s biza…
1 week ago
How Tony Visconti keeps the Bowie flag flying
Episode 894
Tony Visconti left Brooklyn for London in 1967, began working with the Move and Marc Bolan and formed a life-long friendship with the teenage David B…
1 week, 3 days ago
Matt Johnson & the unique story of The The plus George Michael and the sunbed
Episode 893
Matt Johnson’s life story has been mapped out as one long Q&A conversation from meetings with old friend, fan and BFI director Jason Wood. ‘Cognitive…
1 week, 4 days ago
At home with Nick Drake, Sandy Denny & John Martyn in the golden year of 1970
Episode 892
When he was 19, New Yorker Brian Cullman covered the London music scene for Crawdaddy, landing at the birth of folk-rock and the singer-songwriter bo…
1 week, 5 days ago
The Jarrett movie, Macca’s secret & when did standing at gigs start?
Episode 891
Whooping, whistling, punching the air, standing on the arm-rests and generally adding our voice to the sound of the crowd this week involves …
… the …
2 weeks, 1 day ago
The Clash story mapped by the places they lived, played, evolved … and shot pigeons
Episode 890
Paul Gorman, author and curator, has put together fascinating maps of the London haunts of Bowie and the Stones and just published one about the Clas…
2 weeks, 3 days ago