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Bowie, Boy George and the rise of the riotous Blitz club with Robert Elms
Episode 822
London’s Blitz club in 1980 had a huge impact on the way the decade looked and sounded, the launchpad for Boy George, Spandau Ballet, a new age of el…
3 months, 2 weeks ago
The Prince story by 200 people who knew him - and John McKie
Episode 821
Prince’s commercial peak was Purple Rain but John McKie thinks Sign O’ The Times was his creative masterpiece and tracked down over 200 collaborators…
3 months, 2 weeks ago
The three London kids who invented rock style
Episode 820
Paul Gorman, biographer of Malcolm McLaren and friend of the pod, tells the extraordinary story of the three young hipsters behind Granny Takes A Tri…
3 months, 3 weeks ago
Danny Thompson’s bass adventures, Dylan’s women, TV satire and great sleeve art.
Episode 819
News, rants, theories, stories and assorted old hokum which this week stumbles into …
… Kate Bush, Thunderbirds, Tim Buckley, the Blind Boys of Alaba…
3 months, 3 weeks ago
Thea Gilmore on Joan Baez, Jake Thackray and Dave Pegg’s dog starting her career
Episode 818
We’ve always liked Thea Gilmore who once crossed America with Joan Baez in a pre-Election campaign tour and has released 21 albums (“I’ve got musical…
3 months, 3 weeks ago
How pioneer tape-rat Roger Armstrong found vintage America a whole new audience
Episode 817
Roger Armstrong co-founded the legendary Rock On record shop and was running the Chiswick label long before the punk rock explosion of independents, …
3 months, 4 weeks ago
Why Van and Fairport make the perfect send-off, Robert Redford & the best-looking rock stars
Episode 816
On the menu at the rock and roll state banquet …
… Into the Mystic, Meet On The Ledge, In My Life, Tom Waits’ Take It With Me and other perfect songs…
3 months, 4 weeks ago
John Prine, Elvis Costello and a jukebox on fire
Episode 815
Novelist and journalist Tom Piazza struck up a friendship with the irreplaceable John Prine in the last years of his life. This relationship, which b…
4 months ago
Alex's star-studded week in Hollywood
Episode 814
Having disposed of the surprising history of pop stars who posed for Playboy, discussing whether the universe really needs another album called "Play…
4 months ago
Peter Hammill on Bowie, other superfans & 47 albums of ‘self-sabotage and chaos’.
Episode 813
Peter Hammill, adored by Bowie, Mark E Smith and many others, co-founded Van Der Graaf Generator when he was 19. And he’s made 47 albums since, power…
4 months, 1 week ago