With Mark Ellen in foreign parts David Hepworth and Alex Gold light cigars, pass the port in the correct direction and discuss…..
…..the fact that there is only one way to play a Beatles song and that is the way the Beatles did it.
…..the chances that Taylor Swift is reaching her imperial phase and nobody is prepared to tell her what she really needs to hear.
….the very good reason that all contemporary pop records do literally sound the same.
…the 50th anniversary of Richard and Linda Thompson’s “I Want To See The Bright Lights Tonight”.
….the story of the Allman Brothers’ “Jessica”, a jam that turned into Dickey Betts’ pension.
….how the Blue Nile got a plug which is worth all the bought media in the world.
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Steve Howe of Yes tells a few tales from topographic oceans
The evergreen record that’s 50 years old & Jeremy Thorpe at a hippie commune
Richard Coles has faced every audience imaginable, one armed with pea-shooters
For Jah Wobble driving tube trains was even more thrilling than playing Glastonbury
Steve Wright and other great radioheads, McCartney’s bass & the non-profits of Python
Max Décharné reboots the golden age of the Teddy Boys
Guy Garvey remembers the Grumbleweeds in panto, Santana fantasies & a song nicked from Roy Castle
Lulu, when Prince did a bad thing and how the Beatles changed the shape of the human head
Musicians and their mothers and the records we could never sell
Tom Hibbert (the world’s funniest music writer) and why Madonna should be sued
TV's greatest musical moment - and are we still allowed to laugh at hopeless old rock bands?
Graham Gouldman knows where to alphabetically file 10cc records
Annie Nightingale (“the great goth auntie”), choirs on pop records & the music they sent into space
Jim Gordon - the supernatural gift and tragic fate of “the greatest rock drummer” with Joel Selvin
Great albums now 50 years old, the best gag ever & the haircut that launched folk-rock
Noel Coward, Gallagher & Squire’s superpower summit & the art of the Bob Dylan backbeat
Hipgnosis album art, the hardest working man in showbiz & the moment the world went mad
Denny Laine, the Move’s catastrophic court case & the man who's made 700 albums in 2 years
The Beatles as seen by their roadie, co-conspirator & friend Mal Evans – and Kenneth Womack
A drink to Shane MacGowan, Spinal Tap rebooted and lunch with Randy Newman
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