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Why a sumptuous new book about the Island label is “like entering the record shop of your dreams”.
Episode 559
Neil Storey is an old pal from our magazine days who worked in the press office at Island. He looked after U2, Bob Marley, Steel Pulse, the B-52’s an…
2 years, 6 months ago
Mojo’s 30th birthday plus bands whose t-shirts you’d wear even if you didn’t have any of their records
Episode 558
Both of us were involved in the launch of Mojo 30 years ago in the autumn of 1993 and we dug out our copies of the first issue. As editor Paul Du Noy…
2 years, 6 months ago
The “unknown woman” in McCartney’s photos, the Human League and a new U2 game
Episode 557
This week’s pod was recorded just after we saw ‘Paul McCartney Photographs 1963-64: Eyes of the Storm’ at London’s National Portrait Gallery, a warm …
2 years, 6 months ago
Pulitzer Prize winner David Remnick takes the long view of Bruce Springsteen, Aretha Franklin, Macca and more
Episode 556
David Remnick got his Pulitzer for his reporting on Russia. These days he edits The New Yorker, in which capacity he has had close encounters with so…
2 years, 7 months ago
The Stones return, rock’n’roll marriages and Freddie’s 50 kimonos
Episode 555
Recorded together in Mark Ellen’s attic! Among the conversational footballs booted round the park this week you’ll find:-
… Freddie’s “exquisite clut…
2 years, 7 months ago
Plaid shirts? Brown ale? A smoke-stained pub rock special with Simon Matthews
Episode 554
Fired by the rock and roll revival of 1970 and a post-Easy Rider taste for American music, a circuit of some 35 London pubs filled with bands playing…
2 years, 7 months ago
What Kevin Armstrong learnt as the sideman for Bowie, McCartney, Morrissey, Sinead and Iggy Pop
Episode 553
Kevin Armstrong was the guitarist in the band David Bowie asked him to assemble for Live Aid and toured and recorded with him many times. Playing the…
2 years, 7 months ago
Which acts will “go down in history” and what matters more than their music?
Episode 552
We dipped the shrimping net of curiosity in the rock and roll rockpool this week and transferred the following items to the podcast bucket …
… who no…
2 years, 7 months ago
Bob Dylan - why he signs autographs left-handed and other mysteries solved by Ray Padgett
Episode 551
Ray Padgett lives in Vermont, first discovered Dylan when he was 16 in the 21st Century and was fascinated and besotted, later launching the newslett…
2 years, 7 months ago
Achtung Baby, rock fantasy friends and the band that inspired the Bad News Tour
Episode 550
Its tyres pumped, its engine tuned, its air-con still on the blink, the rock and roll charabanc trundles off on its circuit which, this week, makes t…
2 years, 7 months ago