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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Jack Nitzche, a “pleat-faced” guitarist and the time Sly Stone got married onstage
John Cooper Clarke reveals “the performing poet’s worst enemy”
“Fred Flange”, Barry Cryer meets the Pretenders and what we’ve learnt about the Velvet Underground
The inscrutable King Crimson exposed by their documentary-maker Toby Amies
Paul Weller as a songwriter? Dylan Jones unpacks his “Imperial Phase"
What’s Paul Jones of the Manfreds learnt from 60 years onstage?
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Why Andrew Lauder is the unsung hero of the record business
Is U2’s new Songs Of Surrender album just plain *wrong*?
15 minutes with Teenage Fanclub’s Norman Blake: it all started on Blackpool Pier (aged two) …
Is U2’s new Songs Of Surrender album just plain wrong?
Genuinely rotten albums by brilliant artists plus the band that started cancel culture
For the love of Wayne Shorter & David Lindley - and are U2 really U2 without Larry Mullen?
Is Karen Carpenter pop music’s saddest story?
Was the pop boom of 1996-2006 a comedy or a tragedy?
What the Beatles said about the Stones plus the most expensive live music in London
Was Chuck Berry the strangest man in the history of rock?
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