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Suzi Quatro - how Dad, Elvis and Mickie Most transformed my life
Episode 789
Suzi Quatro’s been onstage from the age of 14 as the bassist in the all-girl showband the Pleasure Seekers and the rock act Cradle. And then moved to…
8 months, 3 weeks ago
New Nick Drake tapes, Bob Marley’s masterpiece and the Coldplay ‘kiss-cam’.
Episode 788
A rain-splashed, dub-filled, cash-scattering foray into this week’s news and events which happily lands upon …
… meeting Maddy Prior – a Prior engage…
8 months, 3 weeks ago
The story of David Ackles, who never recovered from putting out “the best album ever made”.
Episode 787
Picked up in the great singer-songwriter sweep of the late 60s and signed to Elektra Records, David Ackles made four albums which went over the heads…
8 months, 4 weeks ago
Kevin Rowland, Oasis, Velvet Sundown – and do we want the truth or just a good story?
Episode 786
Our patent fact-from-fiction separator goes into overdrive this week though sometimes, as Robert Wyatt observed, Ruth is stranger than Richard. High …
9 months ago
John Otway – Micro-stardom, 5,000 gigs and how to capture a crowd in 20 seconds
Episode 785
John Otway – self-billed as “Rock And Roll’s Greatest Failure” - has played 5,260 gigs in 53 years, a record possibly only beaten by BB King. There a…
9 months ago
Peter Hook looks back at Joy Division, New Order and how not to be a DJ
Episode 784
Peter Hook, bold pioneer of the high, clambering, tune-filled bassline, is touring this autumn with Peter Hook & the Light. We talk to him in Prestat…
9 months, 1 week ago
Live Aid remembered – from inside and out – on its 40th birthday
Episode 783
A 40th anniversary special with two of its presenters (Hepworth and Ellen) and old pal and TV critic Boyd Hilton who watched on the day aged 18 (“you…
9 months, 1 week ago
Ian Anderson, Jethro Tull and 58 years of one-legged live performance
Episode 782
Ian Anderson is touring again in 2026 and talks to us here about tweed stage-wear, an audience of four, his teenage heroes and the first shows he eve…
9 months, 2 weeks ago
Album sleeves the modern world would ban & the best song titles and opening lines
Episode 781
It’s Happy Hour in the Rock and Roll Lounge of News and we’re working our way through anything over 40 per cent proof. Which means ice, a slice and ……
9 months, 2 weeks ago
Bobby Bluebell’s thriving third act, ‘80s Glasgow and the gift that keeps on giving
Episode 780
Bobby Bluebell remembers the “cuddly duffle-coat friendship” of Glasgow bands in the early ‘80s and the Bluebells’ second act rebooted by the Volkswa…
9 months, 2 weeks ago