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Trevor Horn’s adventures in modern recording with ABC, Frankie, Yes and Rod Stewart
Episode 479
The teenage Trevor Horn could be found playing bass in dance bands on the Top Rank circuit supporting acts like Tommy Cooper (and singing Long-Haired…
3 years, 5 months ago
Farewell Jerry Lee Lewis and is ‘Talking Book’ the most influential record ever made?
Episode 478
… in which we remember the luminous music and diabolical life of the last of the old rock and roll guard standing. And this includes … the weird old …
3 years, 5 months ago
Why did Sheila Rock walk out of a New Order shoot?
Episode 477
Sheila’s portraits of ‘80s musicians and the club circuit filled the pages of magazines like the Face and Smash Hits at the time and now feature in h…
3 years, 5 months ago
What’s the connection between Liz Truss, Bruce Springsteen and Revolver?
Episode 476
In the crosshairs this week …
Sampha, Skepta? Mercury Prize winner or Italian sports-shoe brand?
Was Revolver really the Beatles’ most “consequential…
3 years, 5 months ago
Craig Brown - our greatest living satirist – has a theory about Keith Richards
Episode 475
Craig was on the pod last year talking about his glorious Beatles book ‘One Two Three Four’ and he’s just published a collection of his writing calle…
3 years, 5 months ago
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, 5 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, 5 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, 6 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, 6 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, 6 months ago