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Robert Johnson, Shakespeare and the rock star image of Martin Amis
Episode 529
Put through the boil-wash of enquiry and hung upon the washing line of truth this week you’ll find the following one-size-fits-all garments …
… which…
3 years, 1 month ago
Is there a more annoying rhyme than “arms” and “charms”?
Episode 528
Further nutritious items on the pod’s tasting menu this week include …
… the story of Tubular Bells and how the Exorcist sent its sales through the r…
3 years, 1 month ago
How a nine-year-old boy kick-started Rock’n’Roll (and other stories)
Episode 527
Where the Gold Bracelets of Sincerity and Wisdom and the Rod of Equity and Mercy meet the piping hot music news agenda in a weekly podcast and alight…
3 years, 1 month ago
Groups that look like a check-out line at B&Q? We have a winner!
Episode 526
Encountering the cheerful ping-pong bats of conversation this week you’ll find …
… the most unprepossessing rock band on God’s green earth.
… Ed Shee…
3 years, 1 month ago
“Well I walked up to her and I asked her if she wanted to dance.”
Episode 525
Items run up the flagpole this week include …
… our memories of the exquisite agony of teenage dances, especially Dave’s at the Mecca Ballroom in Wak…
3 years, 1 month ago
Jack Nitzche, a “pleat-faced” guitarist and the time Sly Stone got married onstage
Episode 524
Dipping our shrimping nets this week into the ever-bountiful rock and roll rock pool we find …
… Dylan, Madonna, Pharrell Williams, Michael Jackson, …
3 years, 2 months ago
John Cooper Clarke reveals “the performing poet’s worst enemy”
Episode 523
The “bargain basement Baudelaire” is setting out on a UK tour in April and tells Mark Ellen here about the earliest shows he saw and played, memories…
3 years, 2 months ago
“Fred Flange”, Barry Cryer meets the Pretenders and what we’ve learnt about the Velvet Underground
Episode 522
This week’s trawl of the rock and roll outer limits alights, among others, on the following sizzling hot topics …
... a lost Beatles tape and the nig…
3 years, 2 months ago
The inscrutable King Crimson exposed by their documentary-maker Toby Amies
Episode 521
“Being on tour with King Crimson,” in the words of their film director, “is like being with the school rugby team and, at the last minute, the games …
3 years, 2 months ago
Paul Weller as a songwriter? Dylan Jones unpacks his “Imperial Phase"
Episode 520
Paul Weller’s been writing songs for 50 years now and he’s chosen over 100 of his lyrics for the new and gorgeous, picture-packed publication ‘Paul W…
3 years, 2 months ago