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Daniel Rachel hears 100 hours of Beatles audio – “it’s like the DNA in a crime scene”.
Episode 420
Daniel Rachel, old pal of the pod, has just published ‘Like Some Forgotten Dream: What If The Beatles Hadn’t Split Up?’, much of it drawn from his ac…
4 years, 5 months ago
Tim Burgess: how Tim’s Twitter Listening Party raised the sum of human happiness
Episode 419
One of the great Lockdown success stories now has a book attached. This magnificent invention started in March last year and, at one point, Tim was h…
4 years, 5 months ago
The best five tracks of the ‘70s and massive applause for Paul Simon (80)
Episode 418
In which we watch the Harmony Game (the fabulous doc about the making of Bridge Over Troubled Water), wonder if the British are qualified to play Cou…
4 years, 5 months ago
Kacey Musgraves’ naked TV appearance restaged by Alex Gold
Episode 417
In which we remember when one of the Stones was in the Air Force, the agony of loons pants, the genius of Irene Handl (and her screen roles: Mrs Crum…
4 years, 6 months ago
Richard Balls: the intoxicating songs and chaotic life of Shane MacGowan
Episode 416
‘A Furious Devotion' is just out, written by Richard Balls after long conversations and nights spent with Shane and interviews with members of the Po…
4 years, 6 months ago
The late Commander Cody and other enthusiastic smokers
Episode 415
White-hot, pressing topics kicked around the rock and roll park this week include … can heavy metal ever be sexy?, why the Beatles would have made th…
4 years, 6 months ago
"Mrs Robinson, you're trying to seduce me!"
Episode 414
In which we re-watch the Graduate, wonder when Yes songs stopped making sense, salute the best rock stage names and the Björn Ulvaeus song credit cam…
4 years, 6 months ago
Tony Fletcher and a rock press version of “the Beano Christmas Annual”
Episode 413
‘The Best Of Jamming!’ is a powerfully nostalgic collection of extracts from the fanzine Tony launched in 1977 when he was 13, born of the lost age o…
4 years, 6 months ago
A Rock Snobbery Special plus 50 years of the Old Grey Whistle Test
Episode 412
.. where we consider the brave new world in which Rick Astley plays the Smiths, a documentary explores the reasons people detest Kenny G and Rolling …
4 years, 6 months ago
Acts with embarrassingly duff names and the absurd notion of “a real fan”
Episode 411
Among the white-hot news items fondly examined this week you’ll find … the eternal wars in Fleetwood Mac, how we broadcast our love of bands before t…
4 years, 7 months ago