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The late Commander Cody and other enthusiastic smokers
Episode 415
White-hot, pressing topics kicked around the rock and roll park this week include … can heavy metal ever be sexy?, why the Beatles would have made th…
4 years, 3 months ago
"Mrs Robinson, you're trying to seduce me!"
Episode 414
In which we re-watch the Graduate, wonder when Yes songs stopped making sense, salute the best rock stage names and the Björn Ulvaeus song credit cam…
4 years, 3 months ago
Tony Fletcher and a rock press version of “the Beano Christmas Annual”
Episode 413
‘The Best Of Jamming!’ is a powerfully nostalgic collection of extracts from the fanzine Tony launched in 1977 when he was 13, born of the lost age o…
4 years, 3 months ago
A Rock Snobbery Special plus 50 years of the Old Grey Whistle Test
Episode 412
.. where we consider the brave new world in which Rick Astley plays the Smiths, a documentary explores the reasons people detest Kenny G and Rolling …
4 years, 4 months ago
Acts with embarrassingly duff names and the absurd notion of “a real fan”
Episode 411
Among the white-hot news items fondly examined this week you’ll find … the eternal wars in Fleetwood Mac, how we broadcast our love of bands before t…
4 years, 4 months ago
"Pop music + distance = sadness"
Episode 410
In which we consider the melancholy of Abba (and find a 45 year-old bar of Abba soap), applaud the hidden message in Lee Perry's Cow Thief Skank, won…
4 years, 4 months ago
For the love of Charlie Watts
Episode 409
In which we wonder if it's the Stones without the drummer, tell the whole story of the "work five years and 20 years hanging around" interview, salut…
4 years, 4 months ago
John Cooper Clarke’s wonderfully unvarnished memories of real life in the ‘50s and 60s
Episode 408
‘I Wanna Be Yours’, the superb memoir by “the bargain basement Baudelaire”, is now out in paperback, much of it an account of growing up in Salford. …
4 years, 4 months ago
From Tom T Hall to the Weeley Festival by way of Una Stubbs
Episode 407
Topics this week given a vigorous shakedown include ... the magical story-telling of the late Tom T Hall, best-preserved '80s rock stars, the constru…
4 years, 4 months ago
Summer in the City: Word in The Park presents ... Danny Baker
Episode 406
The fourth and last guest at our sun-roasted live event in Holland Park on July 17 was the ever-supercharged Danny Baker. Straw-hatted, drink-toting …
4 years, 5 months ago