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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Great album trilogies, suing Madonna and "the pantheon of psychedelic heaviosity"
The spectacular Dead & Co, songs performed backwards & happy birthday Diamond Dogs!
Why They Might Be Giants now perform an entire song backwards
Guy Chambers - writing with Robbie, a tangle with Bowie & half a bagel with Paul McCartney
Alan Edwards, pop PR – ‘Bowie was like King Arthur and the Spice Girls like the Pistols’
Rock’s image-makers, men on dancefloors and why bands can’t act like bands anymore
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Let It Be revisited, the wisdom of Steve Albini and a woeful tale about Steve Marriott
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Steve Diggle of the Buzzcocks remembers the day “a terrible beauty was born”
Rock snobbery, the seven wives of Gregg Allman & the greatest solo on a pop record
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