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Elkie Brooks once opened for the Beatles. A lot happened in the next 65 years …
Episode 772
Elkie Brooks was on a package tour aged 15, supported the Beatles and the Animals, made a single when she was 19, joined the jazz-rock Dada, then Vin…
7 months, 1 week ago
Why they MUST make the Cat Stevens movie + rock feuds, the best video & Beyoncé in a Stetson
Episode 771
Facing down the leg spinners of rock and roll news while trying to wallop the odd shot across the pavilion roof. On the scoreboard this week …
… has …
7 months, 1 week ago
Stuart Maconie – every character in the Beatles’ story has a story of their own
Episode 770
Stuart Maconie – broadcaster, prolific author – has a brilliant and original new perspective on the Beatles. His latest book With A Little Help From …
7 months, 2 weeks ago
Inside the world of reissues with producer Rob Caiger
Episode 769
Rob Caiger is one of those special people who turned their teenage obsession with music into a job
… from being the only one in ELO’s office who knew…
7 months, 2 weeks ago
Genuinely ‘iconic’ rock pictures, words we should ban and how Freddie Mercury still makes headlines
Episode 768
Hoary old tales retold – ideally in an Irish accent - and new ones prized from the giddy carousel of rock and roll news which, this week, features …
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7 months, 2 weeks ago
Martha Wainwright - ‘never nervous, always ballsy’ and onstage from the age of eight
Episode 767
Martha Wainwright is a key member of the Wainwright/McGarrigle clan, all of them big favourites of ours. She’s currently on her 20th anniversary tour…
7 months, 3 weeks ago
Budgie of Siouxsie And The Banshees started out in nightclub cabaret acts, aged 13
Episode 766
Small boy begins breeding budgerigars in Liverpool, makes enough to buy a drum kit and becomes the power behind Big In Japan, the Slits, the Creature…
7 months, 3 weeks ago
Books rock stars want you to read, sacked drummers and how Dylan spent his birthday
Episode 765
The two-man pedalo of enquiry sets out on the Bank Holiday boating lake of news pausing to consider …
… Florence Welch, Dua Lipa and the rise of th…
7 months, 3 weeks ago
Dylan Jones bangs the drum for 1975, an explosion of talent and creativity
Episode 764
Dylan Jones – writer, former editor of i-D, Arena and GQ - was 15 in 1975 and dressed like Jimmy McCulloch of Wings (“a lot of denim and silk scarves…
7 months, 3 weeks ago
The great lost Beach Boys SMiLE album – David Leaf unravels rock’s Holy Grail
Episode 763
The Beach Boys’ SMiLE was abandoned by Brian Wilson in 1967 and eventually performed at an emotional gathering of the faithful in London 37 years lat…
8 months ago