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Sharleen Spiteri saw Joe Strummer onstage and thought “that’s what I want to be”
Episode 617
exas are touring in the autumn and she talks to us here about what’s required to make it all look easy, a conversation that includes …
… why working…
2 years, 2 months ago
Album sleeves as lifestyle statements and 5 seconds that made Phil Manzanera a fortune
Episode 616
The all-seeing telescope of truth scanned this week’s rock and roll heavens and noticed a few patterns emerge, among them …
… the real story of the w…
2 years, 2 months ago
Phil Manzanera Part 2: an insider’s guide to Roxy Music (and a great Bob Dylan story)
Episode 615
Phil Manzanera – who thought “every day in the band felt like Christmas” – has just published his memoir, Revolución to Roxy, and talked to us about …
2 years, 2 months ago
Phil Manzanera’s enviable life in Roxy Music and beyond
Episode 614
Phil Manzanera – whose relatives include a Colombian pirate, a spy and an Italian opera musician - has just published his memoir, Revolución to Roxy,…
2 years, 2 months ago
Fish is bowing out to become a Hebridean shepherd. What’s he learnt in 45 years onstage?
Episode 613
Fish has announced a Farewell Tour in 2025. “I’ve been there, done that and sold the t-shirt.” He’s moving to a croft on a remote Scottish island wit…
2 years, 3 months ago
The extraordinary story of Steve Harley’s greatest hit
Episode 612
Make Me Smile (Come Up and See Me) was a slow-paced, vicious dirge about the band members who forsook and betrayed him which magically evolved into w…
2 years, 3 months ago
Great divorce albums, Powerpop snobs and dark tales of 1999
Episode 611
Various items set off the alarm in the rock and roll bag-check this week and were hauled back for closer inspection, among them …
… when did records …
2 years, 3 months ago
Stephen Fall’s reviewed 3,333 of his albums. Buy the book!
Episode 610
Stephen Fall wrote reviews of his records, one a day, to make him a better listener. A decade later he published them in a book so colossal that we d…
2 years, 3 months ago
It’s Arthur Brown, the god of hellfire … paging Health & Safety!
Episode 609
Arthur Brown – enduring psychedelic godfather – is out on tour again 57 years after first performing Fire in a flaming metal crown. He’s nearly 82. T…
2 years, 3 months ago
Suzi Ronson - Bowie’s stylist - knows why rock and roll is all about hair
Episode 608
Suzi Ronson was working in a hairdressers in Beckenham in 1970 when a Mrs Jones dropped in for a shampoo and set talking gaily about her son, “an art…
2 years, 3 months ago