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Lennon & McCartney seen in a fresh, stirring and original new light by Ian Leslie
Episode 733
Ian Leslie posted his ‘64 Reasons To Celebrate Paul McCartney’ in 2020 and the viral reaction to its piercing and original points encouraged him to w…
1 year, 3 months ago
The threat of AI, the appeal of Gene Hackman & the filthy glamour of Exile On Main St
Episode 732
In which we pedal the conversational tandem uphill and down dale, like a rabbit through the pea-vine or a turkey through the corn, stopping for momen…
1 year, 4 months ago
Graham Fellows, “the comedy of the underdog” and inventing John Shuttleworth and Jilted John
Episode 731
We first saw Graham Fellows as Jilted John on Top of the Pops in 1978 and we’ve followed his characters ever since, especially drawn to the keyboard-…
1 year, 4 months ago
Eternally cool rock stars, the Bond takeover and remembering Rick Buckler
Episode 730
As sinister autocrats stroke Persian cats in shark-pooled underground bunkers, their bony fingers reaching for the nuclear button, we shake another V…
1 year, 4 months ago
Justin Hayward – ‘60s package tours, lost profits & the highpoint of the Moody Blues
Episode 729
Nights In White Satin - 260 million streams on Spotify - is still the central plank in the set Justin Hayward’s touring in October. He talks to us he…
1 year, 4 months ago
Your guided tour of David Bowie’s London with Paul Gorman’s stories about its key locations
Episode 728
No musician is more closely associated with London or left more footprints than Bowie, and you can trace its influence on his life and work (and vice…
1 year, 4 months ago
Eddi Reader - busking, singing radio jingles and “men you put on the shoulder-pads for”
Episode 727
We first saw Eddi Reader singing with the Gang Of Four on Whistle Test in 1982. This eventful pod traces her story from seven kids in a two-bedroom c…
1 year, 4 months ago
Why all great pop stars are cartoons, Bowie doing mime and people whose voices we’ve never heard
Episode 726
Passing the Dutchie 'pon the left-hand side, we sift through this week’s events, rants and theories which absorbingly include …
… that Drake v Kendri…
1 year, 4 months ago
Bob Marley in London, Chappell Roan’s outburst & records that sound best in the dark
Episode 725
Direct from the Government Yard in Trenchtown where, over cornmeal porridge by a log wood fire, the events of the week are gently appraised, among th…
1 year, 4 months ago
The rise of David Bowie and the Spiders From Mars through the eyes of Woody Woodmansey
Episode 724
The teenage Woody Woodmansey was offered the job of under-foreman in the Vertex spectacle factory in Hull but then got a call from Bowie inviting him…
1 year, 4 months ago