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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…
2 years, 1 month 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…
2 years, 2 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…
2 years, 2 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 …
2 years, 2 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 …
2 years, 2 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…
2 years, 2 months ago
Graham Gouldman knows where to alphabetically file 10cc records
Episode 593
In March Graham Gouldman and 10cc are coming your way and here he talks to David Hepworth about:
- seeing Cliff and the original Shadows at his first …
2 years, 2 months ago
Annie Nightingale (“the great goth auntie”), choirs on pop records & the music they sent into space
Episode 592
We stuck a coin in this week’s jukebox of news and cranked up the volume and these were the tracks that got played …
… fond memories of Annie Nightin…
2 years, 3 months ago
Jim Gordon - the supernatural gift and tragic fate of “the greatest rock drummer” with Joel Selvin
Episode 591
Jim Gordon played the drums on Wichita Lineman, Good Vibrations, the Byrds’ Mr Tambourine Man and hundreds of other recordings we all own and worked …
2 years, 3 months ago
Great albums now 50 years old, the best gag ever & the haircut that launched folk-rock
Episode 590
Leaping across puddles, walking between the raindrops, its collar turned to the cold and damp, our weekly podcast builds a defence against the rigour…
2 years, 3 months ago