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Boston, Def Leppard, bad hair & the golden age of rock radio
Episode 875
Paul Rees fell in love with AOR when it began with Boston in 1976, the polished, ramped-up hits that were briefly the music of the American heartland…
4 months ago
Was Bad Bunny at the Superbowl the greatest show ever staged?
Episode 874
After 40 days of relentless rain, you need our little ray of sunshine. And here we all are! Sitting in the rock’n’roll rainbow this week you’ll find …
4 months ago
Andy Bown remembers the Herd, Judas Jump and 47 years in Status Quo
Episode 873
Andy Bown found the 20 year-old recordings of “a deep-space love story” he’d written with the sci-fi author Russell Hoban and he’s just reworked and …
4 months, 1 week ago
How the album survived and why it satisfies the soul!
Episode 872
The album has had 25 years of being hammered by other formats – Napster, iTunes, Spotify, TikTok – and not only survived but thrived. For Keith Jopli…
4 months, 1 week ago
Racy pulp paperbacks, teenage Joni and the BRIT School versus the age of the amateurs
Episode 871
Unredacted exchanges about the rock and roll underworld this week highlight the following …
… real or made-up stars’ kids’ names: Speck Wildhorse? Bl…
4 months, 1 week ago
David Bowie and the triumph, mystery and struggle of his third act
Episode 870
Bowie’s early years have been scrutinised repeatedly but people tend to speed through the last act, from the early ‘90s to his death in 2016. Alexand…
4 months, 2 weeks ago
Days with Bowie, Prince, the Stones, Hendrix & the Clash by David Sinclair
Episode 869
David Sinclair was a long-running rock critic for the Times, Rolling Stone and many others and now makes records himself. He looks back here at some …
4 months, 2 weeks ago
The genius of Sly Dunbar & Catherine O’Hara plus Springsteen’s anthem and old New York
Episode 868
A bone-shaking ride on the weekly news cycle, stopping off here to pump up the tyres ….
… Springsteen’s Streets Of Minneapolis: it’s not what he said…
4 months, 2 weeks ago
Adele Bertei, New York’s art-rock explosion and Eno’s shopping list
Episode 867
Adele Bertei got a Greyhound to New York in 1977 intent on joining a band. James Chance thought she “looked like a pimp” and hired her as the organis…
4 months, 2 weeks ago
Steve Lillywhite produced the Stones, U2, Siouxsie, XTC - ‘the last leg of the relay’
Episode 866
Steve Lillywhite first got a foot in the studio door aged 17 making demos for Ultravox and became a producer with credits on over 500 records. He doe…
4 months, 3 weeks ago