We’ve applied our celebrated sheep/goats separation technique to the rock and roll pasture and shepherded the following into this week’s pod …
… Beyoncé and why it’s hard to connect with songs written by committee.
… are we too old for biopics?
… Marvel films, the Arctic Monkeys and other things you either love or avoid.
… reviewing Human Touch and Lucky Town in a high-security studio (and how you can only tell if an album’s any good if you’ve lived with it for two months).
… why Tony Blackburn is the greatest British DJ.
… “Bing was no more Bing than Sinatra was Sinatra”.
… hoary old tales that were the engine of the rock press - the Clash shooting pigeons, Kevin Rowland stealing his own master-tapes, Cliff v Elvis, Beatles v Stones, Hendrix v Clapton, Bowie v Bolan, Clash v the Pistols, Spandau v Duran, Oasis v Blur.
… are Oasis songs mostly about being Oasis?
… “fame is no longer enacted in the public space”.
… indie cliches – escaping the drudgery of the Man and mundanity of Small Town life.
… “the harder I practice, the luckier I get”.
… Scots punk act get movie soundtrack windfall!
… Alex is arranging a woke stag do - “you go to places where ladies put clothes ON”.
… plus birthday guest Andrew Newbury wonders if Country is more than “the three Ds - driving, dogs and divorce”.
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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
Pauline Murray’s kids have finally found out what Mum did in the Punk Wars
Glen Matlock and the ‘Sliding Doors moment’ that sparked the punk rock fuse
Does anyone know more about rock stars than Jenny Boyd?
Who’s next for an AI movie, first use of sampling & rock stars in unsuitable clothes
Kanye West & the billion dollar gym pumps plus the album sleeve that changed the game
The 2-Tone story - Daniel Rachel remembers the school playground “turning black and white”
Why Kirsty MacColl was so funny, honest, original and impossible to sell – by Jude Rogers
Mystery people on album sleeves, Elton dressed as a hornet and Leonard Cohen’s favourite song and why
Slade, a rambunctious reminder of a vanished world by Daryl Easlea
The KLF torched £1m "and are haunted by it daily". John Higgs knows why
What did we think of the Beatles' last hurrah?
For Ian Broudie & the Lightning Seeds, 'Three Lions' has been a blessing and a curse
Billy Sloan, the man who interviewed Grace Jones in a bath
The greatest guitarist & the strange tale of Mike Raven - plus a leaked Radio One memo!
Pin-Ups’ 50th, Morrissey The Eternal Teenager and what the Stones should be writing songs about
The “gangsterish” charm of Andrew Loog Oldham and Immediate Records, by Simon Spence
Denmark Street, London's Tin Pan Alley, where the Sex Pistols met Pink Floyd and a luverly bunch of coconuts, by Peter Watts
Madonna’s karaoke show, albums that sound their covers and whatever happened to protest music?
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