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Are comedians more competitive than rock stars?
Episode 666
In a concerted effort to put the world to rights, David and Mark ruminate upon the following …
… Kylie and the Wiggles? Canned Heat and the Chipmunks?…
1 year, 9 months ago
Johnny Beatle’, early Blondie, Led Zeppelin’s plane and seven fabulous years at the Melody Maker.
Episode 665
Rock journalism as an occupation is rapidly heading in the direction of the watch-mender or lamplighter so Chris Charlesworth’s account of life at th…
1 year, 9 months ago
One-word rock star mimicry, bands who shouldn’t reform & the best thing about Taylor Swift
Episode 664
With David asleep on a French sun-lounger beneath a copy of Summer Lightning, Alex and Mark pour themselves a cold drink and consider …
… the great s…
1 year, 9 months ago
The extraordinary story of Arthur Lee, Love and the 1966 flop which became a hit for the ages
Episode 663
Love’s official biographer John Einarson tells David Hepworth the star-crossed tale of the band who made the least psychedelic album of the psychedel…
1 year, 10 months ago
Buddy Holly airlines and the inimitable Bob Dylan
Episode 662
As Mark Ellen goes shrimping at Frinton David Hepworth and Alex Gold links hands across the Atlantic to discuss:
….why a quick turn around Mount Hood …
1 year, 10 months ago
“Pop music is 80 per cent about hair”, remaking classic albums and why CDs are so hard to love
Episode 661
A small Pastis, a game of boules and a conversation putting the rock and roll world to rights, which this week includes …
… why Debbie Harry and Mick…
1 year, 10 months ago
Queen, Bowie and other residents of Rockfield Studios remembered by the cook’s daughter
Episode 660
Rockfield is a converted farmhouse in the Welsh countryside where, for over 50 years, bands have lived while recording. In the ‘70s Tiffany Murray’s …
1 year, 10 months ago
57 years of Fleetwood Mac: author Mark Blake's fond encounters and fresh revelations
Episode 659
Mark Blake calls Dreams: the Many Lives of Fleetwood Mac a “mosaic biography”, their almost six-decade saga presented as a series of enthralling shor…
1 year, 10 months ago
Ron Sexsmith doesn’t need a teleprompter. He can do 40 Dylan songs at the drop of a hat
Episode 658
Beloved Canadian singer-songwriter Ron Sexsmith, old pal of the pod, is touring the UK in November, two of the nights at the Palladium, and looks bac…
1 year, 10 months ago
Without John Mayall … no Cream, Fleetwood Mac, Status Quo or Led Zeppelin?
Episode 657
Passing the baton of discourse on the rock and roll racetrack, our Olympian hosts sprint in the following direction …
… watching Toumani Diabaté play…
1 year, 10 months ago