We lobbed the cracked wooden ball of enquiry at the rock and roll coconut shy this week and a few choice items dropped off their perch, among them …
… was Kate Bush ‘the Queen of Prog’?
… ELP, Black Sabbath and Deep Purple playing to 350,000 people on a Speedway track.
… the three things that sparked the Abba revival.
… the Further Adventures of Desmond and Molly Jones, Mean Mr Mustard, Polythene Pam, Father McKenzie, Rocky Raccoon, Maxwell Edison, Rose and Valerie, Sweet Loretta Martin, Vera, Chuck and Dave … Beatles characters awaiting development deals.
… was Britpop the moment the engine went into reverse?
… the two years went rock went ‘fancy dress’.
… why the Stones in 1964 were five walking fashion statements.
… Bookends by Simon & Garfunkel and its Yes connection.
… how the Beatles were in uniform on every album cover.
… David Vine at the 1974 Eurovision: “if all the judges were men, this lot would get a lot of votes and you’ll see why in a moment!”
… plus a birthday guest party - Al Hearton’s life in a Kate Bush tribute band and Stephen Lambe on the complicated birth of 90125 by Yes.
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Guy Garvey remembers the Grumbleweeds in panto, Santana fantasies & a song nicked from Roy Castle
Lulu, when Prince did a bad thing and how the Beatles changed the shape of the human head
Musicians and their mothers and the records we could never sell
Tom Hibbert (the world’s funniest music writer) and why Madonna should be sued
TV's greatest musical moment - and are we still allowed to laugh at hopeless old rock bands?
Graham Gouldman knows where to alphabetically file 10cc records
Annie Nightingale (“the great goth auntie”), choirs on pop records & the music they sent into space
Jim Gordon - the supernatural gift and tragic fate of “the greatest rock drummer” with Joel Selvin
Great albums now 50 years old, the best gag ever & the haircut that launched folk-rock
Noel Coward, Gallagher & Squire’s superpower summit & the art of the Bob Dylan backbeat
Hipgnosis album art, the hardest working man in showbiz & the moment the world went mad
Denny Laine, the Move’s catastrophic court case & the man who's made 700 albums in 2 years
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
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