How a nine-year-old boy kick-started Rock’n’Roll (and other stories)

Where the Gold Bracelets of Sincerity and Wisdom and the Rod of Equity and Mercy meet the piping hot music news agenda in a weekly podcast and alight upon the following ….

 

… the greatest singer of sad songs we’ve ever heard.

 

… the extraordinary tale of the B-side of ‘13 Women And Only One Man’.

 

… songs you couldn’t record these days.

 

… Rufus Wainwright’s re-recording of Neil Young’s Harvest – but CAN modern technology possibly make it sound any better?

 

… Noel Coward in the Italian Job.

 

 ... the mystifying UK pop charts at the time of the last Coronation.

 

… old records we’ve re-discovered: this week, Bonnie Raitt’s magnificent Give It Up (and especially Love Has No Pride).

 

… John Prine’s Angel From Montgomery.

 

… Gordon Lightfoot: why Dylan adored him and the tale of The Wreck Of The Edmund Fitzgerald.

 

… the return of Frankie Goes To Hollywood and the excellent current occupation of Brian ‘Nasher’ Nash.

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