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A 3-part rant about LPs sold as ‘antiques’, TikTok & the shameful AI Michael Parkinson
Episode 719
David feels a rant coming on. Mark lights the blue touchpaper, pulls on a tin hat and retires to a safe distance as they consider …
… the US closure …
1 year, 2 months ago
The unstoppable Francis Rossi – open the fridge door and he’ll do 30 minutes
Episode 718
Something happens when he walks out under the lights. He can never predict what but he’s programmed to perform. As he has for over 60 years and will …
1 year, 2 months ago
Graham Nash beat the Beatles in a talent contest
Episode 717
We both first heard Graham Nash just over 60 years ago when the Hollies’ Just One Look was on the BBC’s swinging Light Programme and we’ve followed h…
1 year, 3 months ago
The Dylan biopic, Sam & Dave and why 2025 is the most important year in our lives.
Episode 716
Though you might hear laughing, spinning, swinging madly across the sun, it is in fact just two old lags reviewing the current events, which this wee…
1 year, 3 months ago
Johnnie Walker, pop’s golden year and what’s wrecking rock documentaries.
Episode 715
It’s perishing cold in our frostbitten London HQ but we warmed our toes around a blazing conversational fire and roasted the following chestnuts …
… …
1 year, 3 months ago
How Dylan and Leonard Cohen punctured the Summer Of Love plus the birth of blockbuster album
Episode 714
Among the walnut shells, wrapping paper, dried tangerine peel and broken toys beneath the Christmas Tree Of News we found a few unopened presents, am…
1 year, 3 months ago
Why we have enough Christmas hits plus the greatest songs about money
Episode 713
Deck the halls with beers and Stoli! The nutcracker of scrutiny was applied to this week’s noisettes of news and the following discussed over a glass…
1 year, 3 months ago
Bill Bailey celebrates “the things that make us human”.
Episode 712
The tremendous Bill Bailey is staging “a magical, musical mystery tour of the mind, along with other pressing matters” for 42 nights in London from D…
1 year, 3 months ago
How Al Stewart struck gold, the folk boom and a flat-share with Paul Simon
Episode 711
The 17 year-old Al Stewart played electric guitar in a dance band in Bournemouth in 1963. When he borrowed an acoustic and sang Masters Of War in the…
1 year, 3 months ago
‘Mystique is dead’: what Gary Kemp learnt in 40 years of making and selling records
Episode 710
Gary Kemp has been posting reels of his recent visits to old haunts in Soho where he and his early bands used to rehearse, this in the run-up to rel…
1 year, 3 months ago