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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, 5 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, 5 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, 5 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, 5 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, 5 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, 5 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, 6 months ago
The afterlife of Hallelujah and the day David sold his old singles
Episode 709
We ran our patent heat-sensing Scrutiniser®️ over the week’s news and here’s what set the bells off …
… are buskers now more expensive live entertain…
1 year, 6 months ago
The greatest sax solo, YMCA, musical one-night stands and Tom Hanks’ wise advice
Episode 708
Paddling the three-man conversational kayak across the rock and roll rapids this week involved …
… Olive Mess, Candied Yams, Gorilla Biscuits …? Chal…
1 year, 6 months ago
How ‘60s pop was sold and the first news stories launching the hits
Episode 707
Joni Mitchell called it “stoking the star-maker machinery behind the popular song”. Every record sent out for review used to come with a press releas…
1 year, 6 months ago