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The poshest pop star ever, music in Xmas ads and song lyrics we can still recite
Episode 699
In which we feed the week’s events through our heat-seeking Fun-Filter®️ to see what makes the bell ring. Which includes …
… Richard Ashcroft in the …
1 year, 4 months ago
Robert Hilburn on the lifetime achievement of Randy Newman
Episode 698
He’s written some of the darkest entries in the American songbook but became world famous with a sunny celebration of friendship on the soundtrack of…
1 year, 5 months ago
Peter Perrett of the Only Ones – teenage life, a wondrous return and a 35-year lost weekend.
Episode 697
After many years of invisibility, Peter Perrett of the Only Ones is out, about and on tour again and talks to us here about the first gigs he ever sa…
1 year, 5 months ago
Does ‘celebrity endorsement’ still work? - and how Quincy Jones invented the blockbuster
Episode 696
Things this week that sent the needle into the red included …
… the last dance craze the whole world noticed.
... “Rock stars used to be anti-establi…
1 year, 5 months ago
The genius of George Harrison and why he’s still underrated
Episode 695
The most streamed Beatles song – 700 million plays more than any other – is not by Lennon/McCartney but George who, as author Seth Rogovoy points out…
1 year, 5 months ago
Ian Broudie of the Lightning Seeds - his Year Zero moment, Imposter Syndrome and seeing the Beatles (aged 7)
Episode 694
Ian Broudie and the Lightning Seeds are about to set out on their 35th Anniversary Greatest Hits Tour – aka “beery parties”. He talks to us here abou…
1 year, 5 months ago
Kraftwerk, Cream, Nirvana, savage reviews, fantasy girlfriends and a naked Nick Cave ‘plush doll’
Episode 693
Our crack pair of inquisitors tackle the week’s events and sift out the good, the bad and the riveting, which includes …
… whatever happened to savag…
1 year, 5 months ago
Life with the Lennons, fame, friendship, the FBI and the Lost Weekend – by Elliot Mintz.
Episode 692
Elliot Mintz, then a West Coast radio presenter, met the Lennons in 1971, the start of a close, unique and extraordinary friendship and hours of late…
1 year, 5 months ago
How Goth took over, farewell Phil Lesh and the curse of teenage stardom
Episode 691
Brushing aside the cobweb spray and luminous flashing skulls, we ring rock and roll’s doorbell in pursuit of both tricks and treats. Among which you’…
1 year, 5 months ago
When Mark King of Level 42 was the 11 year-old singing drummer in a novelty act
Episode 690
Mark King and Level 42 have just announced 2025 tour dates and he talks to us here about …
… the value of what you learn in covers bands from being i…
1 year, 5 months ago