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The extraordinary story of Arthur Lee, Love and the 1966 flop which became a hit for the ages
Episode 663
Love’s official biographer John Einarson tells David Hepworth the star-crossed tale of the band who made the least psychedelic album of the psychedel…
1 year, 5 months ago
Buddy Holly airlines and the inimitable Bob Dylan
Episode 662
As Mark Ellen goes shrimping at Frinton David Hepworth and Alex Gold links hands across the Atlantic to discuss:
….why a quick turn around Mount Hood …
1 year, 5 months ago
“Pop music is 80 per cent about hair”, remaking classic albums and why CDs are so hard to love
Episode 661
A small Pastis, a game of boules and a conversation putting the rock and roll world to rights, which this week includes …
… why Debbie Harry and Mick…
1 year, 5 months ago
Queen, Bowie and other residents of Rockfield Studios remembered by the cook’s daughter
Episode 660
Rockfield is a converted farmhouse in the Welsh countryside where, for over 50 years, bands have lived while recording. In the ‘70s Tiffany Murray’s …
1 year, 5 months ago
57 years of Fleetwood Mac: author Mark Blake's fond encounters and fresh revelations
Episode 659
Mark Blake calls Dreams: the Many Lives of Fleetwood Mac a “mosaic biography”, their almost six-decade saga presented as a series of enthralling shor…
1 year, 5 months ago
Ron Sexsmith doesn’t need a teleprompter. He can do 40 Dylan songs at the drop of a hat
Episode 658
Beloved Canadian singer-songwriter Ron Sexsmith, old pal of the pod, is touring the UK in November, two of the nights at the Palladium, and looks bac…
1 year, 5 months ago
Without John Mayall … no Cream, Fleetwood Mac, Status Quo or Led Zeppelin?
Episode 657
Passing the baton of discourse on the rock and roll racetrack, our Olympian hosts sprint in the following direction …
… watching Toumani Diabaté play…
1 year, 5 months ago
Best album sleeves, what’s ruined singing and pop as ‘empowerment porn’
Episode 656
Once again the ping-pong ball of conversation is batted across the rock and roll net and these are the scores on the doors …
… how to wreck the nati…
1 year, 6 months ago
Who is Lawrence and why did Will Hodgkinson write a whole book about him?
Episode 655
There’s something romantic about glorious failure and Will nails it perfectly in ‘Street Level Superstar: A Year With Lawrence’. Over 40 years plague…
1 year, 6 months ago
Backstage at Live Aid, the first Knebworth and bands that don’t get on
Episode 654
Employing controversial VAR technology, we re-examine various events on the rock and roll pitch and suggest a new perspective. Those key moments incl…
1 year, 6 months ago