Robbie Robertson, Billy Connolly, Bridge Over Troubled Water and the “fake history” of Punk

Even podcasts take “annual leave” but we’re back and once again propelling the two-man Pedalo of Enquiry down the rock and roll seafront stopping off at sundry wave-rippled spots, among them …

 

… what Chuck Berry said about the Clash.

 

… a band whose keyboard player is the King’s second cousin.

 

… the song Art Garfunkel sang for years without realising it was about him.

 

… Billy Connolly’s bicycle gag and other things you couldn’t get away with now.

 

… Ian Hunter remembering “that little bloke from Beckenham”.

 

… why Punk was like a religious movement. Guest Paul Burke claims it was a “passing fad and its over-cooked legacy was fashioned by the middle-class media”.

 

… the Shakespearian echoes of ‘The Boxer’.

 

… what Bowie would have done if the Laughing Gnome had been a hit.

 

… how Robbie Robertson lived the life Bob Dylan claimed to have lived and never recaptured the spirit of the first two Band albums.

 

… Earl Shilton, Norbert Putnam … American session player or remote place in Leicestershire?

… lost TV documentaries about Gene Vincent and the Global Village Trucking Company. 

 

That Global Village Trucking Company doc …

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1SNrBey7yQI

 

Punk’s fake history, Spectator column by Paul Burke …

https://www.spectator.co.uk/article/punks-fake-history/

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