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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…
2 years, 1 month 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…
2 years, 1 month 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…
2 years, 1 month 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, 2 months 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, 2 months 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, 2 months 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, 2 months 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 …
……
2 years, 2 months ago
Big Characters we have loved and why the Clash wouldn’t last ten minutes in 2024
Episode 619
We’ve applied our celebrated sheep/goats separation technique to the rock and roll pasture and shepherded the following into this week’s pod …
… Beyo…
2 years, 2 months ago
How Paul Cook broke into Hammersmith Odeon to see the Who, Slade, Queen & Alex Harvey
Episode 618
Paul Cook’s post-Pistols band the Professionals were once, rather surprisingly, on the cover of Smash Hits - “the pinnacle of our success!” – and the…
2 years, 2 months ago