Its tyres pumped, its engine tuned, its air-con still on the blink, the rock and roll charabanc trundles off on its circuit which, this week, makes the following stops …
… the singer who sold vials of her tears as part of a merchandise range.
… when Billy Bragg entered a Paul Simon lyric in his school poetry contest and only got 7 out of 10.
… why our favourite music still tends to be the stuff we heard in our teens.
… how Bill Graham’s “Electric Ballroom Experience” changed the landscape – “we were out there with no compass”.
… former Kursaal Flyers drummer Will Birch re-watches their ’76 TV film documentary: “There are only two good things about Scotland - the whisky and the road out of there.” “Five autographs? Wasn’t like this at the Carnegie Hall!”
… “creamy mousse with ripe stone fruits, bright citrus and a biscuity length”: home-brewing with Alex James.
… and how Wreckless Eric’s made a living for 46 years out of just one song.
That Bill Graham interview …
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eVeuDS0n3XI
Melvyn Bragg introduces the Kursaal Flyers on the BBC’s 2nd House in 1976 …
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xQKNeWlQzdI&t=11s
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The spectacular Dead & Co, songs performed backwards & happy birthday Diamond Dogs!
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Guy Chambers - writing with Robbie, a tangle with Bowie & half a bagel with Paul McCartney
Alan Edwards, pop PR – ‘Bowie was like King Arthur and the Spice Girls like the Pistols’
Rock’s image-makers, men on dancefloors and why bands can’t act like bands anymore
Paul Carrack has seen it all – beat, soul, prog, pub rock, pop & the perfect ‘slow burn’ career.
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Why Nick Mason’s “cottage industry” band plays just early Pink Floyd
Let It Be revisited, the wisdom of Steve Albini and a woeful tale about Steve Marriott
The genius of Little Feat, the Man with the Twang & pop’s greatest scandal in the making
Steve Diggle of the Buzzcocks remembers the day “a terrible beauty was born”
Rock snobbery, the seven wives of Gregg Allman & the greatest solo on a pop record
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The “amniotic throb” of modern pop, the eternal life of the Top Gear theme and the Blue Nile’s lucky break
Hollywood Babylon, the inspired gimmickry of Catch A Fire and the luck of Ron Wood
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Richard Thompson – “you know it’s time to go when the audience starts throwing chairs”
Neil Tennant remembers the pop press and “the last great era of forward-looking songs"
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