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How Springsteen went “six deep”, fictional rock hacks and who’s more conservative than Liam Gallagher?
Episode 643
You’ll always find us in the kitchen at parties, near the hoppy summer ale and sausage rolls and, and this week discussing …
… he hasn't changed his …
1 year, 7 months ago
Jon Savage - Dusty’s wig, Bowie’s bombshell and how gay pop culture changed music
Episode 642
“I thought Dave Davies of the Kinks was a girl. When I discovered he was a boy, that’s when I got interested.” Jon’s an old friend of the podcast and…
1 year, 7 months ago
“Abba’s success is more about us than them”: Giles Smith looks back at a 50-year love affair
Episode 641
Giles was 12 when he watched Abba win Eurovision in 1974 and was instantly besotted – and thus required to spend the next 20 years wrestling with The…
1 year, 7 months ago
the Architect of Mod: how Peter Meaden restyled and launched the Who - by Steve Turner
Episode 640
Peter Meaden was a key figure in the Mod movement. He changed the world view of Andrew Loog Oldham, which shaped the early Stones, and he managed the…
1 year, 7 months ago
Great album trilogies, suing Madonna and "the pantheon of psychedelic heaviosity"
Episode 639
This week the conversational Super-Trouper of Enquiry lights up the following …
... why care when "rock critics get it wrong"?
... the dreadful death …
1 year, 7 months ago
The spectacular Dead & Co, songs performed backwards & happy birthday Diamond Dogs!
Episode 638
Tuning into this week's rock and roll soundwave to filter signal from noise, we cranked up the volume on the following ...
... 'Zuma Nester Rock' and …
1 year, 7 months ago
Why They Might Be Giants now perform an entire song backwards
Episode 637
They Might Be Giants – old school fiends John Flansburgh and John Linnell – have been making elliptical, funny and adventurous records for over 40 ye…
1 year, 7 months ago
Guy Chambers - writing with Robbie, a tangle with Bowie & half a bagel with Paul McCartney
Episode 636
Guy Chambers was a teenager in Liverpool and at John Lennon’s old school - "same headmaster, Mister Pobjoy". He remembers the Beatles, Queen, Abba an…
1 year, 8 months ago
Alan Edwards, pop PR – ‘Bowie was like King Arthur and the Spice Girls like the Pistols’
Episode 635
We’ve known Alan Edwards since the days when we’d ring him for a quote from Blondie or the Stranglers in the late ‘70s and he’s still one of the key …
1 year, 8 months ago
Rock’s image-makers, men on dancefloors and why bands can’t act like bands anymore
Episode 634
This week’s items slapped on the rock and roll barbecue and lightly grilled include …
… why Eurovision will never avoid political controversy.
… when…
1 year, 8 months ago