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Alan Parsons – from the rooftop of Savile Row to Pink Floyd, Steve Harley and some singing pigs
Episode 759
The teenage Alan Parsons was hired as a tape op by EMI and worked with the Beatles, Pink Floyd, Steve Harley, orchestras, comedians, Pinky And Perky …
11 months ago
Mom Rock v Dad Rock, the Oasis rumour mill and Kanye West’s devious dentist.
Episode 758
Perched outside the Vatican Of News awaiting puffs of white smoke, which this week arrive in the following fashion …
… Brandi Carlile’s Mothership We…
11 months ago
Dennis McNally saw the Summer Of Love in London, New York and California
Episode 757
Dennis McNally was the Grateful Dead’s publicist in the mid-‘80s, one of many reasons why he’s supremely qualified to write his new book about the bi…
11 months, 1 week ago
The greatest duet, rock cameos in Miami Vice and the rebirth of Mississippi John Hurt
Episode 756
Passing the thermometer of conversation over the rock and roll news to see where the mercury rises, which this week includes …
… the new Barbra Strei…
11 months, 1 week ago
Al Murray and James Holland talk the ending of the war in 1945 and the afterlife of The Beatles
Episode 755
In which comedian Al Murray and historian James Holland talk about their new book Victory ’45 and our twin national obsessions, the Second World War …
11 months, 2 weeks ago
Derek Shulman – when Simon Dupree and Gentle Giant were “the darlings of the English Mafia”
Episode 754
Derek Shulman was at the heart of two great transformations – Simon Dupree & the Big Sound switching to psychedelia, and then sensing the prog-rock t…
11 months, 2 weeks ago
The entertaining fictions of Max Romeo and Robert Smith and tech that actually works!
Episode 753
While Mark Ellen is hanging out with the other old ruins in Athens, David Hepworth and Alex Gold compare and contrast the organisation of the London …
11 months, 2 weeks ago
Moon Zappa remembers life with her father Frank. ‘Pagan absurdists’ aren’t great parents
Episode 752
Moon Zappa grew up in what appeared, on the outside, to be an enviably free-wheeling and creative household in Laurel Canyon. On the inside, not so m…
11 months, 3 weeks ago
Daryl Hall - ‘60s soul session work, the right shoes and a barge trip with Bob Dylan
Episode 751
We like to think of Daryl Hall as a kindred spirit, his home-recorded Live At Daryl’s House series with its magnificent roster of guests now racking …
11 months, 3 weeks ago
Rock star pilots, sacking Zak Starkey and bold pioneers of the psychedelic moustache
Episode 750
The chocolate Easter bunny of rock and roll news in highly nutritious and digestible fragments, such as …
… the Who’s very public sacking of Zak Sta…
11 months, 3 weeks ago