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Leo Sayer has met everyone – rock legends, sport superstars, future presidents …
Episode 918
Leo Sayer burst onto national telly in 1973 dressed as a Pierrot with the Show Must Go On launching a 50-year career in colourful company – songwrite…
3 months, 3 weeks ago
Songs about sweltering heat, Willie Nelson’s braids and is vinyl now ‘luxury goods’?
Episode 917
Chasing the shade and slapping the Sunscreen on this week’s overheated news, we pour a tinkling drink and reflect upon the following …
… British peop…
3 months, 4 weeks ago
How Daniel Lanois made those adventurous records with Dylan, U2 and Willie Nelson
Episode 916
Daniel Lanois built a studio in his basement in Quebec and began producing local acts when a teenager. Through work with Brian Eno, he went on to rec…
4 months ago
Siouxsie, Nico, Cocteaus, Shangri-Las, Bobbie Gentry … a celebration of the sound of Goth!
Episode 915
Cathi Unsworth was a teenage Goth, enthralled as much by Joy Division and the Banshees as by the Brontës, Bram Stoker and Aubrey Beardsley. We loved …
4 months ago
Blondie and Clem Burke remembered by devoted pal Kathy Valentine of the Go-Go’s
Episode 914
Clem Burke joined Blondie in 1975. He started writing his memoir 20 years ago and just managed to finish it before he died in 2025, encouraged and as…
4 months ago
Nick Lowe’s miracle payday, Rock feuds and a giant inflatable Jarvis
Episode 913
Panning for gold in the murky waters of this week’s news, we found the following …
… is Sabrina Carpenter’s aunt the voice of Bart Simpson?
… is punk…
4 months ago
The Damned at 50 and the memories (and regrets) of Rat Scabies
Episode 912
The Damned are – yes! - 50 years old with three of the originals still onboard. And just starting a world tour. In this immensely funny and touching …
4 months, 1 week ago
Shoegaze, slackers, ‘noise chasms’ and the 10-year reinvention of rock
Episode 911
A whole new age of psychedelia kicked off in the mid-‘80s, of dream-weavers and glorious underachievers, a complete rejection of the standard rock ap…
4 months, 1 week ago
Famous rock locations, His & Hers records and weird things thrown onstage
Episode 910
This week’s news gets a thorough shake-down to see what falls out of its pockets. Which includes …
… cupcakes, mobiles, rubber ducks, a dead swan: we…
4 months, 1 week ago
Brian Eno’s restless creative adventures with Roxy, Bowie, U2 and Talking Heads
Episode 909
For nearly 60 years, Brian Eno has been a “proud non-musician” who changed the way people thought and sounded while inventing whole new ways of recor…
4 months, 2 weeks ago