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Great divorce albums, Powerpop snobs and dark tales of 1999
Episode 611
Various items set off the alarm in the rock and roll bag-check this week and were hauled back for closer inspection, among them …
… when did records …
2 years, 6 months ago
Stephen Fall’s reviewed 3,333 of his albums. Buy the book!
Episode 610
Stephen Fall wrote reviews of his records, one a day, to make him a better listener. A decade later he published them in a book so colossal that we d…
2 years, 6 months ago
It’s Arthur Brown, the god of hellfire … paging Health & Safety!
Episode 609
Arthur Brown – enduring psychedelic godfather – is out on tour again 57 years after first performing Fire in a flaming metal crown. He’s nearly 82. T…
2 years, 6 months ago
Suzi Ronson - Bowie’s stylist - knows why rock and roll is all about hair
Episode 608
Suzi Ronson was working in a hairdressers in Beckenham in 1970 when a Mrs Jones dropped in for a shampoo and set talking gaily about her son, “an art…
2 years, 6 months ago
How the Beatles invented pop video and acts we love who always sound the same
Episode 607
Nutritious items on the rock and roll tasting menu this week include …
… the curious life of Tom Verlaine, his grocery cart and his 50,000 books.
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2 years, 6 months ago
Is social media killing pop music? And where have all the bands gone?
Episode 606
Caught in the piercing super-trouper of perusal this week …
... the BRITS 2024, a howling embarrassment.
… Medieval Beatles! She Came In Through the …
2 years, 7 months ago
For Henry Normal comedy is like “sugar and salt”
Episode 605
Henry Normal set up Baby Cow Productions with Steve Coogan, co-wrote the Royle Family, Coogan’s Run and Mrs Merton and produced Gavin & Stacy and Red…
2 years, 7 months ago
Steve Howe of Yes tells a few tales from topographic oceans
Episode 604
Steve Howe talks to us from the old house and studio in Devon where they rehearsed ‘The Yes Album’ in 1970. He’s been recording there for 54 years an…
2 years, 7 months ago
The evergreen record that’s 50 years old & Jeremy Thorpe at a hippie commune
Episode 603
As this week’s rock and roll steeplechase thunders out over the jumps, the following runners and riders make it past the post …
… “First he changed m…
2 years, 7 months ago
Richard Coles has faced every audience imaginable, one armed with pea-shooters
Episode 602
The Reverend Richard Coles is back on tour with his ‘Borderline National Trinket’ show and talks to us from his home in Sussex where he’s “the only p…
2 years, 7 months ago