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Dubmaster Dennis Bovell has had 50 fun-filled years making magical records
Episode 779
Dennis Bovell has worked his dub magic on everyone from Janet Kaye to the Slits, the Pop Group, Jarvis Cocker and Thom Yorke & Jonny Greenwood – and …
9 months, 3 weeks ago
Rick Wakeman once signed a contract guaranteeing he’d wear “at least one cape onstage”
Episode 778
Rick Wakeman was onstage from the age of five and looks back with us here on a life of live performance – jazz and blues bands, the Strawbs, Yes – an…
9 months, 3 weeks ago
10cc’s I’m Not In Love is still weird & wonderful! - plus Kneecap & Carol Kaye
Episode 777
Chasing the shade and applying Factor 50 in the wilting heat of this week’s rock and roll news turns the conversation to …
… Kneecap v the Prime Mini…
9 months, 3 weeks ago
When Peter Hooton, the Farm & Eric Cantona played Clash songs in an amphitheatre
Episode 776
The Farm are touring again this summer and have just made their first album for 31 years (with the same-line-up). This sparky and wide-ranging conver…
9 months, 4 weeks ago
Carol Decker of T’Pau and the ocean-going world of the 80s package tour
Episode 775
Carol Decker - another Smash Hits cover star on the podcast! T’Pau are playing dates this summer and autumn and she talks here – hilariously - about …
10 months ago
The magnificent Sly Stone & Brian Wilson and the curse of our expectations
Episode 774
As the great Warren Zevon said, ‘Enjoy every sandwich’. The two-man canoe navigates this week’s rock and roll rivulet which sadly entails reflections…
10 months ago
Why Oasis were God’s gift to the rock press and the story of two missing teeth
Episode 773
Liam Gallagher calls Ted Kessler and Hamish MacBain “the Peter Cook and Dudley Moore of music journalism”. Both worked at the NME (and Ted at Q), bot…
10 months ago
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…
10 months 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 …
10 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 …
10 months, 1 week ago