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John Illsley tells the Dire Straits story
Episode 427
Recorded at the West Hampstead Arts Club - we're back in the outside world! - the band’s bassist remembers their label’s hopes of selling 5,000 copie…
4 years, 10 months ago
Sondheim, the Band Aid recording and the first F-word on record
Episode 426
In which we remember being at Sarm Studios 37 years ago as Bob Geldof and Midge Ure marshalled the troops, and look at the reaction to the Get Back m…
4 years, 10 months ago
Lenny Kaye nails some moments “when the universe shifted”
Episode 425
Lenny Kaye’s just published ‘Lightning Striking: Ten Transformative Moments In Rock And Roll’, events in particular times and places that changed the…
4 years, 10 months ago
Elvis Costello, aka rock’s “greatest communicator”
Episode 424
In which we watch a breathtaking 40-minute piece of oratory by EC that takes in David Hockney, TikTok, Laurel & Hardy, what Pete Thomas did during Lo…
4 years, 10 months ago
Inscrutable album covers and Hunky Dory’s 50th birthday
Episode 423
In which we salute the great ‘60s pop writer and Beatles associate Maureen Cleave, find a copy of Melody Maker from the week Hunky Dory was released …
4 years, 11 months ago
McCartney’s lyrics & the Tom Tom Club plus Lionel Blair and other rhyming slang immortals
Episode 422
In which we kick about with music at weddings, spin-off groups, the bracing challenge of Trout Mask Replica, why pop music needs no awards, the Lione…
4 years, 11 months ago
Happy 50th to the Pink Moon recording sessions!
Episode 421
In which we debunk the eye-watering Adele Hyde Park ticket prices, note the crowd-losing absence of choruses in Nick Drake songs, remember the strang…
4 years, 11 months ago
Daniel Rachel hears 100 hours of Beatles audio – “it’s like the DNA in a crime scene”.
Episode 420
Daniel Rachel, old pal of the pod, has just published ‘Like Some Forgotten Dream: What If The Beatles Hadn’t Split Up?’, much of it drawn from his ac…
4 years, 11 months ago
Tim Burgess: how Tim’s Twitter Listening Party raised the sum of human happiness
Episode 419
One of the great Lockdown success stories now has a book attached. This magnificent invention started in March last year and, at one point, Tim was h…
4 years, 11 months ago
The best five tracks of the ‘70s and massive applause for Paul Simon (80)
Episode 418
In which we watch the Harmony Game (the fabulous doc about the making of Bridge Over Troubled Water), wonder if the British are qualified to play Cou…
4 years, 11 months ago