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Robbie Robertson, Billy Connolly, Bridge Over Troubled Water and the “fake history” of Punk
Episode 549
Even podcasts take “annual leave” but we’re back and once again propelling the two-man Pedalo of Enquiry down the rock and roll seafront stopping off…
2 years, 7 months ago
Sinead O’Connor, that Morrissey outburst, over-long films and the pitiful plight of roadies
Episode 548
The mellifluous melody and soaring counterpoint of this week’s podcast were comprised of the following notes …
… Morrissey’s broadside on the treatm…
2 years, 8 months ago
Tales of Hipgnosis sleeves (and the new film) and why the world needs Steely Dan more than ever
Episode 547
Blips on the rock and roll radar this week include …
… Things You No Longer See, No 97: the celebrity airport arrival shot.
.. do we, in all honest…
2 years, 8 months ago
PP Arnold remembers life in the Ike & Tina Turner Revue aged 17
Episode 546
Pat “PP” Arnold was hired as an Ikette by Ike & Tina’s Revue in 1965 and set off a 2,000 mile tour of America, coming to London a year later to suppo…
2 years, 8 months ago
The things Bruce and Bing have in common and the adventures of Punch in 1976 clubland
Episode 545
As Mark Ellen had taken his shrimping net to the coast Alex Gold steps into the breach to talk to David Hepworth about
….how solo acts like Bing Crosb…
2 years, 9 months ago
Nick Drake - and what Richard Morton Jack learnt from 200 people who knew him
Episode 544
In his new biography “Nick Drake: The Life”, Richard Morton Jack set out to correct the misconceptions spread by magazines and former biographies, so…
2 years, 9 months ago
Cathi Unsworth was a teenage goth. Think “Robert Smith’s tarantula hair” and “cider like turps”
Episode 543
Growing up in remote rural Norfolk, crime writer Cathi Unsworth had a Goth conversion, a condition from which, she happily admits, you never fully re…
2 years, 9 months ago
Wham!, Rock Follies and lost ‘70s prog foot-soldiers Renia – we will remember them!
Episode 542
Filling the spinnaker of enquiry on the careering, two-mast schooner of rock and roll this week you will find …
… the prog drummer who made a fortune…
2 years, 9 months ago
Cocteau Twins song or Farrow & Ball paint colour? plus the day Beatlemania began
Episode 541
This week we paddle the two-man kayak of curiosity across the rock and roll seafront and make a few stops on the way, among them …
… “the future is a…
2 years, 9 months ago
Grotesque/brilliant sleeves plus does upping the price make a ticket more desirable?
Episode 540
Sizzling hot topics patted back and forth across the ping-pong net of conversation this week include …
… the republishing of Giles Smith’s Lost In Mus…
2 years, 9 months ago