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How the Beatles invented pop video and acts we love who always sound the same
Episode 607
Nutritious items on the rock and roll tasting menu this week include …
… the curious life of Tom Verlaine, his grocery cart and his 50,000 books.
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2 years, 3 months ago
Is social media killing pop music? And where have all the bands gone?
Episode 606
Caught in the piercing super-trouper of perusal this week …
... the BRITS 2024, a howling embarrassment.
… Medieval Beatles! She Came In Through the …
2 years, 3 months ago
For Henry Normal comedy is like “sugar and salt”
Episode 605
Henry Normal set up Baby Cow Productions with Steve Coogan, co-wrote the Royle Family, Coogan’s Run and Mrs Merton and produced Gavin & Stacy and Red…
2 years, 3 months ago
Steve Howe of Yes tells a few tales from topographic oceans
Episode 604
Steve Howe talks to us from the old house and studio in Devon where they rehearsed ‘The Yes Album’ in 1970. He’s been recording there for 54 years an…
2 years, 3 months ago
The evergreen record that’s 50 years old & Jeremy Thorpe at a hippie commune
Episode 603
As this week’s rock and roll steeplechase thunders out over the jumps, the following runners and riders make it past the post …
… “First he changed m…
2 years, 3 months ago
Richard Coles has faced every audience imaginable, one armed with pea-shooters
Episode 602
The Reverend Richard Coles is back on tour with his ‘Borderline National Trinket’ show and talks to us from his home in Sussex where he’s “the only p…
2 years, 3 months ago
For Jah Wobble driving tube trains was even more thrilling than playing Glastonbury
Episode 601
Jah Wobble - aka John Wardle - wrote ‘Dark Luminosity: Memoirs of a Geezer’ in 2009. It’s just been reworked, expanded and republished and it’s well …
2 years, 3 months ago
Steve Wright and other great radioheads, McCartney’s bass & the non-profits of Python
Episode 600
Pausing occasionally to spark a Senior Service and sink a milk stout, we kick cans down this week’s rock and roll boulevard stopping off at the follo…
2 years, 4 months ago
Max Décharné reboots the golden age of the Teddy Boys
Episode 599
If a film director wanted to flag up incoming violence in the late ‘50s, the camera would fall upon a couple of Teds lurking in the street outside. T…
2 years, 4 months ago
Guy Garvey remembers the Grumbleweeds in panto, Santana fantasies & a song nicked from Roy Castle
Episode 598
Guy Garvey and Elbow start touring the UK in May and he looks back here at the first shows he saw growing up in Bury in the ’70s - when his five elde…
2 years, 4 months ago