We give the week a spirited shakedown to see what falls out of its pockets. And this includes …
The late Ronnie Hawkins – road hog, stunt diver, bootleg liquor smuggler!
Who’s the only original rock and roller now still alive?
If you went to see Jeff Beck and Johnny Depp lumbered on to “jam”, how monumentally hacked off would you be?
Kiss have handed in their lunchpails and eyebrow pencils. Shouldn’t more hoary old rock acts “retire out of self-respect”?
What Danny Boyle’s Pistol mini-series explains about the band’s urge to succeed – and its corniest moments revisited.
Frank Sinatra, Elvis Presley, Lady Gaga ... any other musicians who cut it on-screen?
What are the great songs about communal experience along with Thanks For The Memory, I Will Survive, Born To Run, Ever Fallen In Love (With Someone You Shouldn’t’ve) and Airhead’s Funny How?
What Americans call “hiking” we call “walking”.
Sir Tim Rice, Sir Bob Geldof, Sir Ian Rankin … our expanding list of beknighted podcast guests.
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Stewart Lee knows the rigours of ‘animal costume work’ and why great comedy is about shock
How Springsteen went “six deep”, fictional rock hacks and who’s more conservative than Liam Gallagher?
Jon Savage - Dusty’s wig, Bowie’s bombshell and how gay pop culture changed music
“Abba’s success is more about us than them”: Giles Smith looks back at a 50-year love affair
the Architect of Mod: how Peter Meaden restyled and launched the Who - by Steve Turner
Great album trilogies, suing Madonna and "the pantheon of psychedelic heaviosity"
The spectacular Dead & Co, songs performed backwards & happy birthday Diamond Dogs!
Why They Might Be Giants now perform an entire song backwards
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.
Nige Tassell was so obsessed with Dexys he’s tracked down all 24 ex-members
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
Harold Bronson of Rhino Records kept a 40-year rock and roll diary…
The “amniotic throb” of modern pop, the eternal life of the Top Gear theme and the Blue Nile’s lucky break
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