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"Pop music + distance = sadness"
Episode 410
In which we consider the melancholy of Abba (and find a 45 year-old bar of Abba soap), applaud the hidden message in Lee Perry's Cow Thief Skank, won…
4 years, 7 months ago
For the love of Charlie Watts
Episode 409
In which we wonder if it's the Stones without the drummer, tell the whole story of the "work five years and 20 years hanging around" interview, salut…
4 years, 7 months ago
John Cooper Clarke’s wonderfully unvarnished memories of real life in the ‘50s and 60s
Episode 408
‘I Wanna Be Yours’, the superb memoir by “the bargain basement Baudelaire”, is now out in paperback, much of it an account of growing up in Salford. …
4 years, 7 months ago
From Tom T Hall to the Weeley Festival by way of Una Stubbs
Episode 407
Topics this week given a vigorous shakedown include ... the magical story-telling of the late Tom T Hall, best-preserved '80s rock stars, the constru…
4 years, 7 months ago
Summer in the City: Word in The Park presents ... Danny Baker
Episode 406
The fourth and last guest at our sun-roasted live event in Holland Park on July 17 was the ever-supercharged Danny Baker. Straw-hatted, drink-toting …
4 years, 8 months ago
The extraordinary life of Louis Armstrong plus George Harrison rebooted
Episode 405
Topics subjected to the usual forensic scrutiny this week include ... Jan & Dean's role in the kidnap of Frank Sinatra Jnr, is it still the Stones wi…
4 years, 8 months ago
Summer in the City: Word in The Park presents ... Mark Lewisohn
Episode 404
We staged our first live event for 18 months on July 17, a sun-baked day at a spectacular outdoor venue kindly lent us by Opera Holland Park. A vast …
4 years, 8 months ago
The mysterious connection between Zappa and Sparks
Episode 403
Topics plumbed to their very depths this week include .... are tears for Olympic athletes now compulsory? The absurd names of Usain Bolt's children. …
4 years, 8 months ago
Amy Winehouse, XTC and the joy of "re-loved CDs"
Episode 402
Matters of high import thrashed out this week include Dylan's Shadow Kingdom livestream, the Thunder Road lyric farrago, Apple Venus and Wasp Star - …
4 years, 8 months ago
Word in The Park #2: Lesley-Ann Jones remembers John Entwistle’s riotous funeral
Episode 401
We had our first live event for 18 months on a fabulous, sun-baked afternoon in Holland Park on July 17 and the writer and former Fleet Street column…
4 years, 8 months ago