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What Kevin Armstrong learnt as the sideman for Bowie, McCartney, Morrissey, Sinead and Iggy Pop
Episode 553
Kevin Armstrong was the guitarist in the band David Bowie asked him to assemble for Live Aid and toured and recorded with him many times. Playing the…
2 years, 4 months ago
Which acts will “go down in history” and what matters more than their music?
Episode 552
We dipped the shrimping net of curiosity in the rock and roll rockpool this week and transferred the following items to the podcast bucket …
… who no…
2 years, 4 months ago
Bob Dylan - why he signs autographs left-handed and other mysteries solved by Ray Padgett
Episode 551
Ray Padgett lives in Vermont, first discovered Dylan when he was 16 in the 21st Century and was fascinated and besotted, later launching the newslett…
2 years, 4 months ago
Achtung Baby, rock fantasy friends and the band that inspired the Bad News Tour
Episode 550
Its tyres pumped, its engine tuned, its air-con still on the blink, the rock and roll charabanc trundles off on its circuit which, this week, makes t…
2 years, 4 months ago
Robbie Robertson, Billy Connolly, Bridge Over Troubled Water and the “fake history” of Punk
Episode 549
Even podcasts take “annual leave” but we’re back and once again propelling the two-man Pedalo of Enquiry down the rock and roll seafront stopping off…
2 years, 5 months ago
Sinead O’Connor, that Morrissey outburst, over-long films and the pitiful plight of roadies
Episode 548
The mellifluous melody and soaring counterpoint of this week’s podcast were comprised of the following notes …
… Morrissey’s broadside on the treatm…
2 years, 5 months ago
Tales of Hipgnosis sleeves (and the new film) and why the world needs Steely Dan more than ever
Episode 547
Blips on the rock and roll radar this week include …
… Things You No Longer See, No 97: the celebrity airport arrival shot.
.. do we, in all honest…
2 years, 5 months ago
PP Arnold remembers life in the Ike & Tina Turner Revue aged 17
Episode 546
Pat “PP” Arnold was hired as an Ikette by Ike & Tina’s Revue in 1965 and set off a 2,000 mile tour of America, coming to London a year later to suppo…
2 years, 6 months ago
The things Bruce and Bing have in common and the adventures of Punch in 1976 clubland
Episode 545
As Mark Ellen had taken his shrimping net to the coast Alex Gold steps into the breach to talk to David Hepworth about
….how solo acts like Bing Crosb…
2 years, 6 months ago
Nick Drake - and what Richard Morton Jack learnt from 200 people who knew him
Episode 544
In his new biography “Nick Drake: The Life”, Richard Morton Jack set out to correct the misconceptions spread by magazines and former biographies, so…
2 years, 6 months ago