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Carol Decker of T’Pau and the ocean-going world of the 80s package tour
Episode 775
Carol Decker - another Smash Hits cover star on the podcast! T’Pau are playing dates this summer and autumn and she talks here – hilariously - about …
1 year ago
The magnificent Sly Stone & Brian Wilson and the curse of our expectations
Episode 774
As the great Warren Zevon said, ‘Enjoy every sandwich’. The two-man canoe navigates this week’s rock and roll rivulet which sadly entails reflections…
1 year ago
Why Oasis were God’s gift to the rock press and the story of two missing teeth
Episode 773
Liam Gallagher calls Ted Kessler and Hamish MacBain “the Peter Cook and Dudley Moore of music journalism”. Both worked at the NME (and Ted at Q), bot…
1 year ago
Elkie Brooks once opened for the Beatles. A lot happened in the next 65 years …
Episode 772
Elkie Brooks was on a package tour aged 15, supported the Beatles and the Animals, made a single when she was 19, joined the jazz-rock Dada, then Vin…
1 year ago
Why they MUST make the Cat Stevens movie + rock feuds, the best video & Beyoncé in a Stetson
Episode 771
Facing down the leg spinners of rock and roll news while trying to wallop the odd shot across the pavilion roof. On the scoreboard this week …
… has …
1 year ago
Stuart Maconie – every character in the Beatles’ story has a story of their own
Episode 770
Stuart Maconie – broadcaster, prolific author – has a brilliant and original new perspective on the Beatles. His latest book With A Little Help From …
1 year ago
Inside the world of reissues with producer Rob Caiger
Episode 769
Rob Caiger is one of those special people who turned their teenage obsession with music into a job
… from being the only one in ELO’s office who knew…
1 year ago
Genuinely ‘iconic’ rock pictures, words we should ban and how Freddie Mercury still makes headlines
Episode 768
Hoary old tales retold – ideally in an Irish accent - and new ones prized from the giddy carousel of rock and roll news which, this week, features …
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1 year ago
Martha Wainwright - ‘never nervous, always ballsy’ and onstage from the age of eight
Episode 767
Martha Wainwright is a key member of the Wainwright/McGarrigle clan, all of them big favourites of ours. She’s currently on her 20th anniversary tour…
1 year ago
Budgie of Siouxsie And The Banshees started out in nightclub cabaret acts, aged 13
Episode 766
Small boy begins breeding budgerigars in Liverpool, makes enough to buy a drum kit and becomes the power behind Big In Japan, the Slits, the Creature…
1 year ago