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Madonna’s karaoke show, albums that sound their covers and whatever happened to protest music?
Episode 567
Spicy and nutritious items in the rock and roll bouillabaisse this week include …
… Roger Waters at the Palladium: a masterclass in how to insult an …
2 years, 8 months ago
Jarvis v Jacko and why drummers are like goalkeepers. Let Pulp’s Nick Banks be your guide
Episode 566
Nick Banks - nephew of the great Gordon Banks – saw a note pinned by his favourite band to a wall in 1986, his Sliding Doors moment: ‘Pulp Want Drumm…
2 years, 8 months ago
Smoking on album sleeves, Smash Hits The Musical and records you own but have never played
Episode 565
Engaging blips on the rock and roll radar this week include:-
… Iron Maiden album title or novel by Jeffrey Archer?
… selling Ringo’s ashtray.
… the …
2 years, 8 months ago
Echo & the Bunnymen, why the rock press were “divs” and the secret of good hair by Will Sergeant
Episode 564
Will Sergeant’s just put out the second volume of his memoirs, both of them Sunday Times best-sellers, Echoes and the first edition, Bunnyman. Here h…
2 years, 8 months ago
An Insider’s Guide To Goth by Cathi Unsworth (via Cruella De Vil and the Cure)
Episode 563
Crime novelist Cathi Unsworth turned Goth in her teens in rural Norfolk fired by a cocktail of Dennis Wheatley, the Damned on the Peel show and the d…
2 years, 8 months ago
Nick Drake – a whole new perspective by Richard Morton Jack
Episode 562
Richard Morton Jack interviewed over 200 people when assembling what’s unquestionably the best, most colourful, comprehensive, revealing and accurate…
2 years, 8 months ago
Gary Numan, unlikely sex symbols and U2’s £1,000 night in the desert
Episode 561
Spice-filled items tossed into the conversational cooking-pot this week include:-
… our charming encounter with Gary Numan, possibly the world’s most…
2 years, 8 months ago
Does Gary Numan regret throwing the glo-stick that hit David Bowie?
Episode 560
Gary Numan is about to set out on a UK acoustic tour, some of it in churches and one date in a cathedral. He talks here - from the Scottish estate ho…
2 years, 8 months ago
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, 8 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, 8 months ago