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Why we have enough Christmas hits plus the greatest songs about money
Episode 713
Deck the halls with beers and Stoli! The nutcracker of scrutiny was applied to this week’s noisettes of news and the following discussed over a glass…
1 year, 6 months ago
Bill Bailey celebrates “the things that make us human”.
Episode 712
The tremendous Bill Bailey is staging “a magical, musical mystery tour of the mind, along with other pressing matters” for 42 nights in London from D…
1 year, 6 months ago
How Al Stewart struck gold, the folk boom and a flat-share with Paul Simon
Episode 711
The 17 year-old Al Stewart played electric guitar in a dance band in Bournemouth in 1963. When he borrowed an acoustic and sang Masters Of War in the…
1 year, 6 months ago
‘Mystique is dead’: what Gary Kemp learnt in 40 years of making and selling records
Episode 710
Gary Kemp has been posting reels of his recent visits to old haunts in Soho where he and his early bands used to rehearse, this in the run-up to rel…
1 year, 6 months ago
The afterlife of Hallelujah and the day David sold his old singles
Episode 709
We ran our patent heat-sensing Scrutiniser®️ over the week’s news and here’s what set the bells off …
… are buskers now more expensive live entertain…
1 year, 6 months ago
The greatest sax solo, YMCA, musical one-night stands and Tom Hanks’ wise advice
Episode 708
Paddling the three-man conversational kayak across the rock and roll rapids this week involved …
… Olive Mess, Candied Yams, Gorilla Biscuits …? Chal…
1 year, 6 months ago
How ‘60s pop was sold and the first news stories launching the hits
Episode 707
Joni Mitchell called it “stoking the star-maker machinery behind the popular song”. Every record sent out for review used to come with a press releas…
1 year, 6 months ago
The Beatles ’64 movie - one of us loves it, the other doesn’t. Plus Rod’s tweets & Trump’s guitars
Episode 706
Reversing into tomorrow! This week’s news events given a vigorous once-over include …
… what will a Trump guitar be worth in 30 years’ time?
… the av…
1 year, 7 months ago
How R.E.M. changed the game and why there’ll never be another band like them
Episode 705
R.E.M. considered themselves missionaries against the prevailing pop culture – no solos, no old-school stagecraft, no printed lyrics, no lip-syncing,…
1 year, 7 months ago
Fairport, Nick Drake, Traffic and why Island Records was a sumptuous visual delight
Episode 704
Neil Storey worked in the Island press office in the ‘70s and ‘80s and has set out on mammoth undertaking, to compile a series of gorgeous, album-sle…
1 year, 7 months ago