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The Beatles ’64 movie - one of us loves it, the other doesn’t. Plus Rod’s tweets & Trump’s guitars
Episode 706
Reversing into tomorrow! This week’s news events given a vigorous once-over include …
… what will a Trump guitar be worth in 30 years’ time?
… the av…
1 year, 6 months ago
How R.E.M. changed the game and why there’ll never be another band like them
Episode 705
R.E.M. considered themselves missionaries against the prevailing pop culture – no solos, no old-school stagecraft, no printed lyrics, no lip-syncing,…
1 year, 6 months ago
Fairport, Nick Drake, Traffic and why Island Records was a sumptuous visual delight
Episode 704
Neil Storey worked in the Island press office in the ‘70s and ‘80s and has set out on mammoth undertaking, to compile a series of gorgeous, album-sle…
1 year, 6 months ago
Danny Baker - the panjandrum of unstoppable anecdote with a taste of his upcoming tour
Episode 703
Danny Baker, the act you’ve known for all these years, is kicking his legs up again in 2025 on a thundering new theatre tour, ‘Aye Aye! Ahoy Hoy!’ “D…
1 year, 6 months ago
The Band Aid recording, the birth of the tape loop and the power of the movie theme tune
Episode 702
This week’s events piled into a pipe and enthusiastically smoked include …
… our memories of being at the Band Aid recording in Sarm studios, Novem…
1 year, 6 months ago
How Toyah & Robert’s kitchen show became an Xmas rock’n’roll ding-dong
Episode 701
One of our rays of sunshine in the dark days of Lockdown was Toyah and Robert’s Sunday Lunch, fizzing clips of the two of them in their Dorset kitche…
1 year, 6 months ago
John Lydon on the genius of Frankie Howerd, Tommy Cooper and the fine art of Spoken Word
Episode 700
John Lydon is among us in 2025 - with Public Image in May and on his Spoken Word tour in September. Entertainment is guaranteed, as it is in this pod…
1 year, 6 months ago
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, 7 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, 7 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, 7 months ago