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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A farewell to Wilko – “Dr Feelgood didn’t play the music, the music played them.”
Kenneth Womack – author of 12 Beatles books – dives “back through the looking glass”
If you could only listen to one act all week who would you choose?
Dylan’s love letters and the one album that never lets you down
Twitter and World Cup chaos, Jaco Pastorius, gruesome 18th C combat and other matters of high import
Trevor Horn’s adventures in modern recording with ABC, Frankie, Yes and Rod Stewart
Farewell Jerry Lee Lewis and is ‘Talking Book’ the most influential record ever made?
Why did Sheila Rock walk out of a New Order shoot?
What’s the connection between Liz Truss, Bruce Springsteen and Revolver?
Craig Brown - our greatest living satirist – has a theory about Keith Richards
Simon Sebag Montefiore knows the five best songs about history ever written
All of your rock heroes have had work done
King Crimson, Dave Vanian’s shoe and seeing one of the world’s most famous women on a train
50 years of Nuggets, Ian Brown’s karaoke and is there a band name worse than Jealous Nostril?
Hilary Mantel, Zappa track or ad slogan and the day Beefheart sold Aldous Huxley a vacuum-cleaner
Our farewell to the most famous person in the world (and the story of a brief encounter)
You’re not going to Duran Duran’s Halloween party dressed like that!
Celebrity mash-ups! An afternoon with Billy Joel, Ivanka Trump, Bono, Geldof and Rupert Murdoch
The horror, the horror! Why you MUST see the new Woodstock ’99 documentary
In praise of Bernard Cribbins, Clive James and the noble art of guitar-smashing
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