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The evergreen record that’s 50 years old & Jeremy Thorpe at a hippie commune
The evergreen record that’s 50 years old & Jeremy Thorpe at a hippie commune

Episode 603

As this week’s rock and roll steeplechase thunders out over the jumps, the following runners and riders make it past the post …

 

… “First he changed m…

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Richard Coles has faced every audience imaginable, one armed with pea-shooters
Richard Coles has faced every audience imaginable, one armed with pea-shooters

Episode 602

The Reverend Richard Coles is back on tour with his ‘Borderline National Trinket’ show and talks to us from his home in Sussex where he’s “the only p…

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For Jah Wobble driving tube trains was even more thrilling than playing Glastonbury
For Jah Wobble driving tube trains was even more thrilling than playing Glastonbury

Episode 601

Jah Wobble - aka John Wardle - wrote ‘Dark Luminosity: Memoirs of a Geezer’ in 2009. It’s just been reworked, expanded and republished and it’s well …

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Steve Wright and other great radioheads, McCartney’s bass & the non-profits of Python
Steve Wright and other great radioheads, McCartney’s bass & the non-profits of Python

Episode 600

Pausing occasionally to spark a Senior Service and sink a milk stout, we kick cans down this week’s rock and roll boulevard stopping off at the follo…

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Max Décharné reboots the golden age of the Teddy Boys
Max Décharné reboots the golden age of the Teddy Boys

Episode 599

If a film director wanted to flag up incoming violence in the late ‘50s, the camera would fall upon a couple of Teds lurking in the street outside. T…

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Guy Garvey remembers the Grumbleweeds in panto, Santana fantasies & a song nicked from Roy Castle
Guy Garvey remembers the Grumbleweeds in panto, Santana fantasies & a song nicked from Roy Castle

Episode 598

Guy Garvey and Elbow start touring the UK in May and he looks back here at the first shows he saw growing up in Bury in the ’70s - when his five elde…

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Lulu, when Prince did a bad thing and how the Beatles changed the shape of the human head
Lulu, when Prince did a bad thing and how the Beatles changed the shape of the human head

Episode 597

This week the two-man kayak of curiosity tackles the following rock and roll rapids …

 

… when was the last time there was a truly universal hit?  


… wh…

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Musicians and their mothers and the records we could never sell
Musicians and their mothers and the records we could never sell

Episode 596

We spun the week’s rock and roll roulette wheel and this is where the balls landed … 

 

… why all rock biopics are worth seeing once.

 

… ‘demixing’: we …

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Tom Hibbert (the world’s funniest music writer) and why Madonna should be sued
Tom Hibbert (the world’s funniest music writer) and why Madonna should be sued

Episode 595

Our piercing Hubble Telescope Of Truth scans the rock and roll heavens to see what new patterns emerge, among them …

 

… running into Rod Stewart at a …

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TV's greatest musical moment - and are we still allowed to laugh at hopeless old rock bands?
TV's greatest musical moment - and are we still allowed to laugh at hopeless old rock bands?

Episode 594

 Applying our patent ACME wheat/chaff separator to the rock and roll cornfield, this week’s podcast reaps the following harvest ….

 

… Stray, Budgie, F…

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