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Jimmy Cliff, unseen Beatles and the greatest bassline on record!
Episode 846
Twenty pounds of headlines plus rants, theories and the odd slice of old hokum: served hot. Which this week involves …
… Jimmy Cliff and how his vers…
6 months, 2 weeks ago
Boo Hewerdine’s funny and alarming account of real life on the road
Episode 845
Boo Hewerdine, beloved singer-songwriter, has been onstage for 40 years in venues of every type, shape and size. He thinks of himself as a “tradesman…
6 months, 3 weeks ago
Legendary duos who met by chance, RIP Mani & ironing to gangsta rap
Episode 844
News, rants, theories and curios which this week includes ….
… how Mani made the Stone Roses swing
… Mick & Keith, Meg & Jack, Hall & Oates, Neil & C…
6 months, 3 weeks ago
Kula Shaker’s Crispian Mills had a colourful childhood
Episode 843
Crispian Mills knew he’d be onstage as he’s from a “family of professional show-offs” but they begged him not to be an actor. He talks here about his…
6 months, 4 weeks ago
The Beach Boys’ story gets more tangled by the minute
Episode 842
“All bands are sad stories,” Peter Doggett points out, but is there a more woven, moving and, at times, farcical tale than that of the Beach Boys? It…
7 months ago
What makes a rock star a ‘ledge’ & the daft rituals of the ‘70s disco
Episode 841
Five decades of rock and roll with none of the names redacted. In the despatches this week …
… Kevin Rowland? Adam Ant? Toyah? Morrissey? Which Smash…
7 months ago
Rock’s fascination with the Third Reich exposed by Daniel Rachel
Episode 840
Musicians have flirted with Nazi imagery since the ‘60s, lampooning its theatre, absorbing its style, exploiting its shock value, even promoting its …
7 months ago
Paul Weller – ‘gloriously chippy’ – as seen by friends, family, fans and collaborators
Episode 839
Dan Jennings’ podcast ‘Desperately Seeking Paul’ is so successful he’s used 250 of the interviews in a best-selling oral history. ‘Dancing Through Th…
7 months ago
Did rave kill dancing in couples? Stars seen in strange places?
Episode 838
Marking our dance card at the rock and roll hop this week you’ll find …
… And Then He Kissed Me, I Saw Her Standing There, Springsteen’s All The Way …
7 months, 1 week ago
David Bowie and why we need him more than ever. Paul Morley looks back in wonder
Episode 837
David Bowie’s significance just keeps expanding and the look and sound of him never age. Paul Morley has been gripped from the start and his new book…
7 months, 1 week ago