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Kenneth Womack – author of 12 Beatles books – dives “back through the looking glass”
Episode 483
Ken’s a world authority and he’s been on the pod twice before, talking about his books about George Martin and the last days of John Lennon. He’s jus…
3 years, 1 month ago
If you could only listen to one act all week who would you choose?
Episode 482
Further free-wheeling conversational detours include …
… “like the consequences of mating Patti Smith with a Hoover vacuum cleaner”: barbed reviews i…
3 years, 1 month ago
Dylan’s love letters and the one album that never lets you down
Episode 481
Things run up the flagpole this week in pursuit of entertainment …
… Irish/American punk rock group or 19th Century criminal gang?
… the eternal depe…
3 years, 2 months ago
Twitter and World Cup chaos, Jaco Pastorius, gruesome 18th C combat and other matters of high import
Episode 480
On the radar this week in an enquiring, celebratory or goat-getting capacity …
… has the World Cup balloon already been unmendably punctured?
… and i…
3 years, 2 months ago
Trevor Horn’s adventures in modern recording with ABC, Frankie, Yes and Rod Stewart
Episode 479
The teenage Trevor Horn could be found playing bass in dance bands on the Top Rank circuit supporting acts like Tommy Cooper (and singing Long-Haired…
3 years, 2 months ago
Farewell Jerry Lee Lewis and is ‘Talking Book’ the most influential record ever made?
Episode 478
… in which we remember the luminous music and diabolical life of the last of the old rock and roll guard standing. And this includes … the weird old …
3 years, 2 months ago
Why did Sheila Rock walk out of a New Order shoot?
Episode 477
Sheila’s portraits of ‘80s musicians and the club circuit filled the pages of magazines like the Face and Smash Hits at the time and now feature in h…
3 years, 2 months ago
What’s the connection between Liz Truss, Bruce Springsteen and Revolver?
Episode 476
In the crosshairs this week …
Sampha, Skepta? Mercury Prize winner or Italian sports-shoe brand?
Was Revolver really the Beatles’ most “consequential…
3 years, 2 months ago
Craig Brown - our greatest living satirist – has a theory about Keith Richards
Episode 475
Craig was on the pod last year talking about his glorious Beatles book ‘One Two Three Four’ and he’s just published a collection of his writing calle…
3 years, 2 months ago
Simon Sebag Montefiore knows the five best songs about history ever written
Episode 474
One of them is Sympathy For The Devil. The Stranglers are in the Top Five too, as are the Strawbs. The best-selling historian and documentary-maker h…
3 years, 2 months ago