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Gang Of Four’s Jon King now sees the comedy in their endless self-sabotage
Episode 736
Gang Of Four’s moment was dramatic but brief. It was littered with times when the future seemed impossibly bright before disaster crept up with a cos…
1 year, 3 months ago
Has politics eaten entertainment? What’s ‘perfect sound’? Plus Brian James & how to make a speech
Episode 735
Tyres pumped, engine cranked, chromework winking in the Springtime sun, the two-man conversational jalopy sets off on its weekly spin and visits …
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1 year, 3 months ago
Film-maker Denny Tedesco on dad’s old band The Wrecking Crew and new doc “Immediate Family”
Episode 734
We’re long-time admirers of Denny Tedesco’s “Wrecking Crew” doc which celebrated the studio musicians of 60s Hollywood, the unseen hands who can be h…
1 year, 3 months ago
Lennon & McCartney seen in a fresh, stirring and original new light by Ian Leslie
Episode 733
Ian Leslie posted his ‘64 Reasons To Celebrate Paul McCartney’ in 2020 and the viral reaction to its piercing and original points encouraged him to w…
1 year, 3 months ago
The threat of AI, the appeal of Gene Hackman & the filthy glamour of Exile On Main St
Episode 732
In which we pedal the conversational tandem uphill and down dale, like a rabbit through the pea-vine or a turkey through the corn, stopping for momen…
1 year, 3 months ago
Graham Fellows, “the comedy of the underdog” and inventing John Shuttleworth and Jilted John
Episode 731
We first saw Graham Fellows as Jilted John on Top of the Pops in 1978 and we’ve followed his characters ever since, especially drawn to the keyboard-…
1 year, 3 months ago
Eternally cool rock stars, the Bond takeover and remembering Rick Buckler
Episode 730
As sinister autocrats stroke Persian cats in shark-pooled underground bunkers, their bony fingers reaching for the nuclear button, we shake another V…
1 year, 3 months ago
Justin Hayward – ‘60s package tours, lost profits & the highpoint of the Moody Blues
Episode 729
Nights In White Satin - 260 million streams on Spotify - is still the central plank in the set Justin Hayward’s touring in October. He talks to us he…
1 year, 3 months ago
Your guided tour of David Bowie’s London with Paul Gorman’s stories about its key locations
Episode 728
No musician is more closely associated with London or left more footprints than Bowie, and you can trace its influence on his life and work (and vice…
1 year, 4 months ago
Eddi Reader - busking, singing radio jingles and “men you put on the shoulder-pads for”
Episode 727
We first saw Eddi Reader singing with the Gang Of Four on Whistle Test in 1982. This eventful pod traces her story from seven kids in a two-bedroom c…
1 year, 4 months ago