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How a nine-year-old boy kick-started Rock’n’Roll (and other stories)
Episode 527
Where the Gold Bracelets of Sincerity and Wisdom and the Rod of Equity and Mercy meet the piping hot music news agenda in a weekly podcast and alight…
3 years, 1 month ago
Groups that look like a check-out line at B&Q? We have a winner!
Episode 526
Encountering the cheerful ping-pong bats of conversation this week you’ll find …
… the most unprepossessing rock band on God’s green earth.
… Ed Shee…
3 years, 1 month ago
“Well I walked up to her and I asked her if she wanted to dance.”
Episode 525
Items run up the flagpole this week include …
… our memories of the exquisite agony of teenage dances, especially Dave’s at the Mecca Ballroom in Wak…
3 years, 1 month ago
Jack Nitzche, a “pleat-faced” guitarist and the time Sly Stone got married onstage
Episode 524
Dipping our shrimping nets this week into the ever-bountiful rock and roll rock pool we find …
… Dylan, Madonna, Pharrell Williams, Michael Jackson, …
3 years, 2 months ago
John Cooper Clarke reveals “the performing poet’s worst enemy”
Episode 523
The “bargain basement Baudelaire” is setting out on a UK tour in April and tells Mark Ellen here about the earliest shows he saw and played, memories…
3 years, 2 months ago
“Fred Flange”, Barry Cryer meets the Pretenders and what we’ve learnt about the Velvet Underground
Episode 522
This week’s trawl of the rock and roll outer limits alights, among others, on the following sizzling hot topics …
... a lost Beatles tape and the nig…
3 years, 2 months ago
The inscrutable King Crimson exposed by their documentary-maker Toby Amies
Episode 521
“Being on tour with King Crimson,” in the words of their film director, “is like being with the school rugby team and, at the last minute, the games …
3 years, 2 months ago
Paul Weller as a songwriter? Dylan Jones unpacks his “Imperial Phase"
Episode 520
Paul Weller’s been writing songs for 50 years now and he’s chosen over 100 of his lyrics for the new and gorgeous, picture-packed publication ‘Paul W…
3 years, 2 months ago
What’s Paul Jones of the Manfreds learnt from 60 years onstage?
Episode 519
The Manfreds start their 60th Anniversary Tour in September with Paul, Mike D’Abo and Tom McGuinnness in the line-up. He talks to us here about the f…
3 years, 2 months ago
Do we still need film and album reviews? Plus Seymour Stein and Keith Reid’s last fandangos
Episode 518
In which we cast a warm but appraising glance in the direction of the week’s news and alight upon the following sizzling topics …
… the best media jo…
3 years, 2 months ago