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Word Podcast 337 - David Mitchell on why writing about the rock boom of 1967 is "an open goal"
Novelist David Mitchell on Utopia Avenue, his fictional account of life in a band (Sunday Times No 1 best-seller!) - plus Bucks Fizz at the Malvern W…
5 years, 5 months ago
Word Podcast 336 - Happy Anniversary...
... 50 and 40 years ago this week! In which we salute the magnificent Peter Green (and hear Owen Parker's memories of recording with him in the '90s)…
5 years, 5 months ago
Word Podcast 336 - Happy Anniversary: 50 and 40 years ago this week!
In which we salute the magnificent Peter Green (and hear Owen Parker's memories of recording with him in the '90s), look back at the great Q headline…
5 years, 5 months ago
Word Podcast 335
Live Aid's "2,000 million global audience": surely some mistake? In which we remember Lady Di rollerskating in Kensington Palace with Duran Duran on …
5 years, 6 months ago
Word Podcast 335 - Live Aid's "2,000 million global audience": surely some mistake?
In which we remember Lady Di rollerskating in Kensington Palace with Duran Duran on her Walkman, invent fake rap stars and Mod Revival bands, applaud…
5 years, 6 months ago
Word Podcast 334 - Graeme Thomson on John Martyn
Graeme Thomson on John Martyn's "lifelong grudges and huge, messy explosion of records"Music writer, author and old pal from Word magazine, Graeme Th…
5 years, 6 months ago
Word Podcast 334 - Graeme Thomson on John Martyn's "lifelong grudges and huge, messy explosion of records"
Music writer, author and old pal from Word magazine, Graeme Thomson on his spledid new book, "Small Hours: the Long Night of John Martyn", a tale inv…
5 years, 6 months ago
Word Podcast 333: when band members go "off brand"
In which we shudder to imagine life in a group with Brian Jones, David Crosby, Dennis Wilson etc, chew tobacco with Charlie Daniels, invent reggae ac…
5 years, 6 months ago
Word Podcast 333: when band members go "off brand"
In which we shudder to imagine life in a group with Brian Jones, David Crosby, Dennis Wilson etc, chew tobacco with Charlie Daniels, invent reggae ac…
5 years, 6 months ago
Word Podcast 332: what makes an album cover 'classic'?
In which we ponder American pop showbiz v shambling British charm, bands v solos acts, Will Farrell's Eurovision movie, Ed Sheeran's bank balance, Be…
5 years, 6 months ago