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The genius of Little Feat, the Man with the Twang & pop’s greatest scandal in the making
Episode 629
We stuck a few coins in this week’s Wurlitzer and these were the tunes that got played …
… when records became all about sound not songs.
… Fonzworth…
1 year, 11 months ago
Steve Diggle of the Buzzcocks remembers the day “a terrible beauty was born”
Episode 628
Steve Diggle met Pete Shelley when the Pistols played Manchester in 1976 and the Diggle-fronted Buzzcocks are now on a world tour that began in Mexic…
1 year, 11 months ago
Rock snobbery, the seven wives of Gregg Allman & the greatest solo on a pop record
Episode 627
This week’s theories, rants, ruminations, recollections, weak gags and free and frank exchanges of view alight upon the following …
… is pop music…
1 year, 11 months ago
Harold Bronson of Rhino Records kept a 40-year rock and roll diary…
Episode 626
File this under ‘right place, right time’. Harold Bronson was a teenager in mid-60’s Los Angeles and saw every act imaginable. Then wrote for the Dai…
1 year, 11 months ago
The “amniotic throb” of modern pop, the eternal life of the Top Gear theme and the Blue Nile’s lucky break
Episode 625
With Mark Ellen in foreign parts David Hepworth and Alex Gold light cigars, pass the port in the correct direction and discuss…..
…..the fact that the…
1 year, 11 months ago
Hollywood Babylon, the inspired gimmickry of Catch A Fire and the luck of Ron Wood
Episode 624
We lobbed the feathered arrows of enquiry at the rock and roll dartboard this week and these got the highest scores …
… rock stars v the new league o…
2 years ago
Neil Tennant remembers life “with dyed red Bowie hair and clattering platforms”
Episode 623
Neil’s an old friend from our days back at Smash Hits in the early ‘80s. The first Pet Shop Boys demos were played on the office tape machine, though…
2 years ago
Richard Thompson – “you know it’s time to go when the audience starts throwing chairs”
Episode 622
Richard Thompson first appeared onstage aged 14 playing Beatles covers in a school group “so bad we were pelted with pennies”. Sixty years later his …
2 years ago
Neil Tennant remembers the pop press and “the last great era of forward-looking songs"
Episode 621
Neil’s an old friend from our days back at Smash Hits in the early ‘80s. The first Pet Shop Boys demos were played on the office tape machine, though…
2 years ago
The Stones’ clothes, our love affair with Abba & rock’s most appalling spectacle
Episode 620
We lobbed the cracked wooden ball of enquiry at the rock and roll coconut shy this week and a few choice items dropped off their perch, among them …
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2 years ago