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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PP Arnold remembers life in the Ike & Tina Turner Revue aged 17
The things Bruce and Bing have in common and the adventures of Punch in 1976 clubland
Nick Drake - and what Richard Morton Jack learnt from 200 people who knew him
Cathi Unsworth was a teenage goth. Think “Robert Smith’s tarantula hair” and “cider like turps”
Wham!, Rock Follies and lost ‘70s prog foot-soldiers Renia – we will remember them!
Cocteau Twins song or Farrow & Ball paint colour? plus the day Beatlemania began
Grotesque/brilliant sleeves plus does upping the price make a ticket more desirable?
Harvey Lisberg – managing 10cc, meeting Elvis and “Peter Noone’s extra tooth”
Record shops in movies and what Glenda Jackson did that no other actor ever dared try
Revenge songs, Nick Drake and that sorry tale about Primal Scream
Word In The Park 2023 #4 – Clare Grogan's adventures in TV, film and music
Word In The Park 2023: How the Beatles and James Bond shaped us all
Word In The Park 2023 #2 – 60 years of the Bee Gees with Bob Stanley
Word In The Park 2023: 60 years of the Stones with Lesley-Ann Jones
What bands are becoming unfashionable?
Which is the most two-faced world - movies, music or daytime TV?
Farewell Tina Turner – “all you needed was Nutbush City Limits and a Watneys Party 7”
Robert Johnson, Shakespeare and the rock star image of Martin Amis
Is there a more annoying rhyme than “arms” and “charms”?
How a nine-year-old boy kick-started Rock’n’Roll (and other stories)
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