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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, 9 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, 9 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, 9 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, 9 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, 9 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, 9 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, 9 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, 9 months ago
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, 10 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, 10 months ago