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The 2-Tone story - Daniel Rachel remembers the school playground “turning black and white”
Episode 579
As if by some magical alignment of the planets, the Specials, Madness and the Beat were all listening to the same music and developing the same look…
2 years, 4 months ago
Why Kirsty MacColl was so funny, honest, original and impossible to sell – by Jude Rogers
Episode 578
Jude Rogers – writer, broadcaster, old pal of the pod - first heard Kirsty MacColl when she was nine and felt a connection ever since. She’s just wri…
2 years, 5 months ago
Mystery people on album sleeves, Elton dressed as a hornet and Leonard Cohen’s favourite song and why
Episode 577
This week’s winning hand from the rock and roll card deck includes …
… a silver salute to musicians who don’t dye their hair.
… did Al Pacino play Ph…
2 years, 5 months ago
Slade, a rambunctious reminder of a vanished world by Daryl Easlea
Episode 576
Slade were as revolutionary as T. Rex or Roxy Music, Daryl Easlea points out. At one stage they were outselling Bowie and Bolan. They were the band t…
2 years, 5 months ago
The KLF torched £1m "and are haunted by it daily". John Higgs knows why
Episode 575
John Higgs' brilliant and wide-ranging book 'The KLF: Chaos, Magic and the Band Who Burned A Million Pounds' came out ten years ago and just keeps on…
2 years, 5 months ago
What did we think of the Beatles' last hurrah?
Episode 574
"The Beatles gave us a continuing soundtrack of unparalleled charm and reassurance", Derek Taylor said. "As long as they kept on delivering fresh son…
2 years, 5 months ago
For Ian Broudie & the Lightning Seeds, 'Three Lions' has been a blessing and a curse
Episode 573
There are broadly three Ian Broudies in the public imagination. One is the songwriter with a catalogue of softly psychedelic left-field pop tunes. Th…
2 years, 5 months ago
Billy Sloan, the man who interviewed Grace Jones in a bath
Episode 572
Billy Sloan, Glaswegian broadcaster and music columnist, has written his memoir, ‘One Love, One Life’, about a career that’s allowed him to point his…
2 years, 5 months ago
The greatest guitarist & the strange tale of Mike Raven - plus a leaked Radio One memo!
Episode 571
We spin the reels of the rock and roll fruit machine this week and get the following pay-outs …
… the preposterous present they gave Bobby Charlton w…
2 years, 5 months ago
Pin-Ups’ 50th, Morrissey The Eternal Teenager and what the Stones should be writing songs about
Episode 570
Toothsome hors d’ouvres, mains and ‘items from the trolley’ on the rock and roll menu this week include …
… Bowie’s Pin-Ups v Ferry’s These Foolish T…
2 years, 5 months ago