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Paul Carrack has seen it all – beat, soul, prog, pub rock, pop & the perfect ‘slow burn’ career.
Episode 633
We’ve followed Paul Carrack for 50 years, a big hit single – How Long – when he was with Ace, 19 albums, countless sessions (the Smiths, Eagles and P…
1 year, 8 months ago
Nige Tassell was so obsessed with Dexys he’s tracked down all 24 ex-members
Episode 632
Nige Tassell used to go to school in full donkey-jacket-and-woolly-hat ensemble to express his boundless devotion to Dexys Midnight Runners. Forty ye…
1 year, 8 months ago
Why Nick Mason’s “cottage industry” band plays just early Pink Floyd
Episode 631
Missing being on tour and exasperated by internal disputes, Nick Mason set out to tour small-scale venues with his band Saucerful Of Secrets in 2018.…
1 year, 8 months ago
Let It Be revisited, the wisdom of Steve Albini and a woeful tale about Steve Marriott
Episode 630
We were at the Curzon Mayfair on May 7 for the premier of the rebooted Let It Be in all its burnished finery and came away with a ton of things to un…
1 year, 8 months ago
The genius of Little Feat, the Man with the Twang & pop’s greatest scandal in the making
Episode 629
We stuck a few coins in this week’s Wurlitzer and these were the tunes that got played …
… when records became all about sound not songs.
… Fonzworth…
1 year, 8 months ago
Steve Diggle of the Buzzcocks remembers the day “a terrible beauty was born”
Episode 628
Steve Diggle met Pete Shelley when the Pistols played Manchester in 1976 and the Diggle-fronted Buzzcocks are now on a world tour that began in Mexic…
1 year, 8 months ago
Rock snobbery, the seven wives of Gregg Allman & the greatest solo on a pop record
Episode 627
This week’s theories, rants, ruminations, recollections, weak gags and free and frank exchanges of view alight upon the following …
… is pop music…
1 year, 8 months ago
Harold Bronson of Rhino Records kept a 40-year rock and roll diary…
Episode 626
File this under ‘right place, right time’. Harold Bronson was a teenager in mid-60’s Los Angeles and saw every act imaginable. Then wrote for the Dai…
1 year, 8 months ago
The “amniotic throb” of modern pop, the eternal life of the Top Gear theme and the Blue Nile’s lucky break
Episode 625
With Mark Ellen in foreign parts David Hepworth and Alex Gold light cigars, pass the port in the correct direction and discuss…..
…..the fact that the…
1 year, 9 months ago
Hollywood Babylon, the inspired gimmickry of Catch A Fire and the luck of Ron Wood
Episode 624
We lobbed the feathered arrows of enquiry at the rock and roll dartboard this week and these got the highest scores …
… rock stars v the new league o…
1 year, 9 months ago