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Your guided tour of David Bowie’s London with Paul Gorman’s stories about its key locations
Episode 728
No musician is more closely associated with London or left more footprints than Bowie, and you can trace its influence on his life and work (and vice…
1 year, 4 months ago
Eddi Reader - busking, singing radio jingles and “men you put on the shoulder-pads for”
Episode 727
We first saw Eddi Reader singing with the Gang Of Four on Whistle Test in 1982. This eventful pod traces her story from seven kids in a two-bedroom c…
1 year, 4 months ago
Why all great pop stars are cartoons, Bowie doing mime and people whose voices we’ve never heard
Episode 726
Passing the Dutchie 'pon the left-hand side, we sift through this week’s events, rants and theories which absorbingly include …
… that Drake v Kendri…
1 year, 4 months ago
Bob Marley in London, Chappell Roan’s outburst & records that sound best in the dark
Episode 725
Direct from the Government Yard in Trenchtown where, over cornmeal porridge by a log wood fire, the events of the week are gently appraised, among th…
1 year, 4 months ago
The rise of David Bowie and the Spiders From Mars through the eyes of Woody Woodmansey
Episode 724
The teenage Woody Woodmansey was offered the job of under-foreman in the Vertex spectacle factory in Hull but then got a call from Bowie inviting him…
1 year, 4 months ago
So Long, Marianne Faithfull plus the Shipping Forecast as read by Nick Cave
Episode 723
In a courageous stand against AI technology, a pair of old lags communing via two cocoa tins and a piece of string attempt to put the rock and roll w…
1 year, 4 months ago
Did Britain invent the rock band? - plus our new laws about music & Garth Hudson RIP
Episode 722
When we get off of this mountain, you know where we want to go? Straight down the Mississippi River to the Gulf of Mexico. While surveying the week’s…
1 year, 4 months ago
Howard Jones has ‘the best job in the world’
Episode 721
We put Howard Jones on the cover of Smash Hits in 1983 billed as ‘the Most Promising New Act’ and, 15 albums and 42 years later, he’s about to set ou…
1 year, 4 months ago
Andy Fairweather Low’s teenage psychedelic stardom
Episode 720
Another great hero on the podcast! We first heard Andy Fairweather Low with Amen Corner on jukeboxes in the late ‘60s and he’s touring the UK from Fe…
1 year, 4 months ago
A 3-part rant about LPs sold as ‘antiques’, TikTok & the shameful AI Michael Parkinson
Episode 719
David feels a rant coming on. Mark lights the blue touchpaper, pulls on a tin hat and retires to a safe distance as they consider …
… the US closure …
1 year, 5 months ago