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How many bands can you name every member of?
Episode 828
This week’s news put through the wringer and hung out to dry. On the line you’ll find …
… Taylor Swift and Ophelia and other things pop videos turned…
11 months, 1 week ago
The Zombies’ Colin Blunstone – a psychedelic showpiece then ‘washed up’ aged 21
Episode 827
The Zombies formed before the Stones and had huge hits with She’s Not There and Time Of The Season. Their baroque masterpiece Odessey and Oracle now …
11 months, 1 week ago
Led Zeppelin’s fight for attention and how they fudged their backstory
Episode 826
This lavish, beautifully designed collection of late ‘60s news stories, reviews and press clippings sheds new light on the band’s roots and ascent fr…
11 months, 2 weeks ago
Stones, Blondie, Iggy and songs that make a movie & why we loved Diane Keaton
Episode 825
Shifting the pass-the-parcel of news and removing the wrapping when the music stops. Which this week happens here …
… will rock bands get offered the…
11 months, 2 weeks ago
Ringo and why the Beatles wouldn’t have worked without him
Episode 824
The look, sound, story and dynamic of the Beatles can’t be imagined without him. Nor can their success. Tom Doyle, author and drummer, examines the u…
11 months, 2 weeks ago
Rock stars we envy, Madonna as a sister-in-law & the British obsession with poshness
Episode 823
Steering the supercar of enquiry round the rock and roll racetrack with the occasional stop for a tyre change. Foot-to-floor moments this week includ…
11 months, 3 weeks ago
Bowie, Boy George and the rise of the riotous Blitz club with Robert Elms
Episode 822
London’s Blitz club in 1980 had a huge impact on the way the decade looked and sounded, the launchpad for Boy George, Spandau Ballet, a new age of el…
11 months, 3 weeks ago
The Prince story by 200 people who knew him - and John McKie
Episode 821
Prince’s commercial peak was Purple Rain but John McKie thinks Sign O’ The Times was his creative masterpiece and tracked down over 200 collaborators…
11 months, 4 weeks ago
The three London kids who invented rock style
Episode 820
Paul Gorman, biographer of Malcolm McLaren and friend of the pod, tells the extraordinary story of the three young hipsters behind Granny Takes A Tri…
1 year ago
Danny Thompson’s bass adventures, Dylan’s women, TV satire and great sleeve art.
Episode 819
News, rants, theories, stories and assorted old hokum which this week stumbles into …
… Kate Bush, Thunderbirds, Tim Buckley, the Blind Boys of Alaba…
1 year ago