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Richard Balls: the intoxicating songs and chaotic life of Shane MacGowan
Episode 416
‘A Furious Devotion' is just out, written by Richard Balls after long conversations and nights spent with Shane and interviews with members of the Po…
5 years ago
The late Commander Cody and other enthusiastic smokers
Episode 415
White-hot, pressing topics kicked around the rock and roll park this week include … can heavy metal ever be sexy?, why the Beatles would have made th…
5 years ago
"Mrs Robinson, you're trying to seduce me!"
Episode 414
In which we re-watch the Graduate, wonder when Yes songs stopped making sense, salute the best rock stage names and the Björn Ulvaeus song credit cam…
5 years ago
Tony Fletcher and a rock press version of “the Beano Christmas Annual”
Episode 413
‘The Best Of Jamming!’ is a powerfully nostalgic collection of extracts from the fanzine Tony launched in 1977 when he was 13, born of the lost age o…
5 years ago
A Rock Snobbery Special plus 50 years of the Old Grey Whistle Test
Episode 412
.. where we consider the brave new world in which Rick Astley plays the Smiths, a documentary explores the reasons people detest Kenny G and Rolling …
5 years ago
Acts with embarrassingly duff names and the absurd notion of “a real fan”
Episode 411
Among the white-hot news items fondly examined this week you’ll find … the eternal wars in Fleetwood Mac, how we broadcast our love of bands before t…
5 years, 1 month ago
"Pop music + distance = sadness"
Episode 410
In which we consider the melancholy of Abba (and find a 45 year-old bar of Abba soap), applaud the hidden message in Lee Perry's Cow Thief Skank, won…
5 years, 1 month ago
For the love of Charlie Watts
Episode 409
In which we wonder if it's the Stones without the drummer, tell the whole story of the "work five years and 20 years hanging around" interview, salut…
5 years, 1 month ago
John Cooper Clarke’s wonderfully unvarnished memories of real life in the ‘50s and 60s
Episode 408
‘I Wanna Be Yours’, the superb memoir by “the bargain basement Baudelaire”, is now out in paperback, much of it an account of growing up in Salford. …
5 years, 1 month ago
From Tom T Hall to the Weeley Festival by way of Una Stubbs
Episode 407
Topics this week given a vigorous shakedown include ... the magical story-telling of the late Tom T Hall, best-preserved '80s rock stars, the constru…
5 years, 1 month ago