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Simon Sebag Montefiore knows the five best songs about history ever written
Episode 474
One of them is Sympathy For The Devil. The Stranglers are in the Top Five too, as are the Strawbs. The best-selling historian and documentary-maker h…
3 years, 2 months ago
All of your rock heroes have had work done
Episode 473
In which we waspishly suggest the odd nip and tuck is now standard practice - and name a few obvious suspects. And alight upon …
… Nick Hornby’s new …
3 years, 3 months ago
King Crimson, Dave Vanian’s shoe and seeing one of the world’s most famous women on a train
Episode 472
Things picked up by the ankles this week and given a light shaking to see what falls out of their pockets …
… why King Crimson is like no other band …
3 years, 3 months ago
50 years of Nuggets, Ian Brown’s karaoke and is there a band name worse than Jealous Nostril?
Episode 471
Things given a grilling this week in hot pursuit of revelation and entertainment …
.. would YOU pay £45 to see Ian Brown and some backing tracks?
… t…
3 years, 3 months ago
Hilary Mantel, Zappa track or ad slogan and the day Beefheart sold Aldous Huxley a vacuum-cleaner
Episode 470
In powerful pursuit of amusement and distraction we aim the piercing supertrouper of scrutiny this week in the direction of …
… why Ry Cooder MUST wr…
3 years, 3 months ago
Our farewell to the most famous person in the world (and the story of a brief encounter)
Episode 469
The Eiffel Tower dimmed its lights, the radio played “music for a solemn occasion” and this week’s pod is a reflection about the woman who’s been Que…
3 years, 4 months ago
You’re not going to Duran Duran’s Halloween party dressed like that!
Episode 468
Among the thoughts, theories and assorted old hokey in the firing line this week you will happily find …
… rock biopics someone ought to be making
… …
3 years, 4 months ago
Celebrity mash-ups! An afternoon with Billy Joel, Ivanka Trump, Bono, Geldof and Rupert Murdoch
Episode 467
Welcome to this week’s pod in which various white-hot topics are brought in for questioning, among them …
… Whatever happened to Dando Shaft?
… Alast…
3 years, 4 months ago
The horror, the horror! Why you MUST see the new Woodstock ’99 documentary
Episode 466
In bold and vigorous pursuit of entertainment we steer via the following topics …
… Thora Hird with a rifle.
… acts who wrote rejected songs for Bond…
3 years, 5 months ago
In praise of Bernard Cribbins, Clive James and the noble art of guitar-smashing
Episode 465
Our weekly stroll through the sunlit uplands of rock and roll visits the following topics …
… Bob Dylan’s worst lyrics
… musicians in movies, actors wh…
3 years, 5 months ago