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Neil Tennant remembers the pop press and “the last great era of forward-looking songs"
Episode 621
Neil’s an old friend from our days back at Smash Hits in the early ‘80s. The first Pet Shop Boys demos were played on the office tape machine, though…
2 years, 5 months ago
The Stones’ clothes, our love affair with Abba & rock’s most appalling spectacle
Episode 620
We lobbed the cracked wooden ball of enquiry at the rock and roll coconut shy this week and a few choice items dropped off their perch, among them …
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2 years, 5 months ago
Big Characters we have loved and why the Clash wouldn’t last ten minutes in 2024
Episode 619
We’ve applied our celebrated sheep/goats separation technique to the rock and roll pasture and shepherded the following into this week’s pod …
… Beyo…
2 years, 6 months ago
How Paul Cook broke into Hammersmith Odeon to see the Who, Slade, Queen & Alex Harvey
Episode 618
Paul Cook’s post-Pistols band the Professionals were once, rather surprisingly, on the cover of Smash Hits - “the pinnacle of our success!” – and the…
2 years, 6 months ago
Sharleen Spiteri saw Joe Strummer onstage and thought “that’s what I want to be”
Episode 617
exas are touring in the autumn and she talks to us here about what’s required to make it all look easy, a conversation that includes …
… why working…
2 years, 6 months ago
Album sleeves as lifestyle statements and 5 seconds that made Phil Manzanera a fortune
Episode 616
The all-seeing telescope of truth scanned this week’s rock and roll heavens and noticed a few patterns emerge, among them …
… the real story of the w…
2 years, 6 months ago
Phil Manzanera Part 2: an insider’s guide to Roxy Music (and a great Bob Dylan story)
Episode 615
Phil Manzanera – who thought “every day in the band felt like Christmas” – has just published his memoir, Revolución to Roxy, and talked to us about …
2 years, 6 months ago
Phil Manzanera’s enviable life in Roxy Music and beyond
Episode 614
Phil Manzanera – whose relatives include a Colombian pirate, a spy and an Italian opera musician - has just published his memoir, Revolución to Roxy,…
2 years, 6 months ago
Fish is bowing out to become a Hebridean shepherd. What’s he learnt in 45 years onstage?
Episode 613
Fish has announced a Farewell Tour in 2025. “I’ve been there, done that and sold the t-shirt.” He’s moving to a croft on a remote Scottish island wit…
2 years, 6 months ago
The extraordinary story of Steve Harley’s greatest hit
Episode 612
Make Me Smile (Come Up and See Me) was a slow-paced, vicious dirge about the band members who forsook and betrayed him which magically evolved into w…
2 years, 6 months ago