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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, 8 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, 8 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, 9 months ago
Noel Coward, Gallagher & Squire’s superpower summit & the art of the Bob Dylan backbeat
Episode 589
Amid the detritus of tangerine peel, half-eaten chocolates, broken toys and jars of home-brewed chutney beneath the rock and roll Christmas tree we f…
2 years, 9 months ago
Hipgnosis album art, the hardest working man in showbiz & the moment the world went mad
Episode 588
We check this week’s luggage on the rock and roll baggage carousel and remove the following items for inspection …
… The People v OJ Simpson and why…
2 years, 9 months ago
Denny Laine, the Move’s catastrophic court case & the man who's made 700 albums in 2 years
Episode 587
This week’s wheat/chaff separation process sifts the following from the rock and roll cornfield …
… Tony Secunda, his gangsterish suits and the publi…
2 years, 9 months ago
The Beatles as seen by their roadie, co-conspirator & friend Mal Evans – and Kenneth Womack
Episode 586
Mal Evans was the Beatles’ right-hand man, their bouncer, bodyguard, gofer, chauffeur, drug-runner, roadie, fellow party animal, confidante and frien…
2 years, 10 months ago
A drink to Shane MacGowan, Spinal Tap rebooted and lunch with Randy Newman
Episode 585
Belfast author and old pal of the pod Stuart Bailie joins us to remember the lost captain of the good ship Pogues and we touch on Shane’s “feral” ear…
2 years, 10 months ago
Pauline Murray’s kids have finally found out what Mum did in the Punk Wars
Episode 584
Pauline Murray kept a diary when she and Penetration were on the punk rock frontline and her vivid and emotional memories appear in a new memoir, Lif…
2 years, 10 months ago
Glen Matlock and the ‘Sliding Doors moment’ that sparked the punk rock fuse
Episode 583
Glen Matlock came to our live podcast recording at London’s 21Soho at the end of November and lit up the audience with tales from his new memoir ‘Tri…
2 years, 10 months ago