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Tom Lehrer, payola and the Midnight Train to Georgia
Episode 371
In which we navigate by way of pay-for-play bribery, Elvis Costello's mum, the songs the Bonzos taught us, the man who helped cook the Beatles' books…
5 years, 2 months ago
The story about Phil Collins, George Harrison and the congas ...
Episode 370
In which the conversational spotlight alights upon the great Hilton Valentine (RIP), adventures with the KLF, Phil Collins' disastrous session for Al…
5 years, 2 months ago
Where Dolly and Phil Spector meet PG Wodehouse ...
Episode 369
A snow-filled scenic ramble featuring the appeal of Dolly Parton for the under-fives, the Cilla Black/Phil Spector chart battle of '65 (and Phil's un…
5 years, 2 months ago
It's all gone Sea Shanty!
Episode 368
In which we're joined by Sam Pope - the man who shantyised Eminem - on the new mass appeal of seafaring folk tunes, applaud the value of Happy Music …
5 years, 2 months ago
Neil Young and the concert that invented 'the whoop'
Episode 367
In which we tell the story of James Taylor's tattoo, Bowie's coded message to Hermione, Tracy Chapman v Nicki Ninaj, Gerry Marsden stealing George Ha…
5 years, 3 months ago
The priceless mishaps of Fleetwood Mac
Episode 366
Surely the only podcast on God’s Earth that covers Elmer Gantry’s Velvet Opera, Pulp’s Disco 2000, Zulu, voter fraud in Citizen Kane, Mother’s club i…
5 years, 3 months ago
Word Podcast Gold
Episode 30
In which we list the prog hallmarks – Byron, classically trained virtuosity, overtures! – and remember Yes at the LSE and the Bournemouth Winter Gard…
5 years, 3 months ago
Word Podcast Gold
Episode 30
In which we list the prog hallmarks – Byron, classically trained virtuosity, overtures! – and remember Yes at the LSE and the Bournemouth Winter Gard…
5 years, 3 months ago
Word In Your Attic 88 (audio version) - Glen Colson: sake and whelks with Viv Stanshall, anyone?
Press wrangler and wingman to the stars, Glen Colson on his Mackeson-flavoured memories of life at Charisma Records, preserving the bullet holes in h…
5 years, 3 months ago
To the sunlit uplands of the new Let It Be movie!
Episode 365
Surely the only podcast that's ever included tantalising Beatles film outtakes, the knock-down sale of Michael Jackson's Neverland, 'the Great Fatsby…
5 years, 3 months ago