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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…
1 year, 10 months ago
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…
1 year, 10 months ago
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 …
1 year, 11 months ago
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…
1 year, 11 months ago
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…
1 year, 11 months ago
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…
1 year, 11 months ago
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…
1 year, 11 months ago
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 …
1 year, 11 months ago
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 …
1 year, 11 months ago
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…
1 year, 11 months ago