Mark Ellen and David Hepworth have been talking about and writing about music together and individually for a collective eighty years in magazines like Smash Hits, Mojo and The Word and on radio and TV programmes like "Rock On", "Whistle Test" and VH-1. Over thirteen years ago, when working on the late magazine The Word, they began producing podcasts. Some listeners have been kind enough to say these have been very special to them. When the magazine folded in 2012 they kept the spirit of tho ...
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Emeritus Professor Roly Sussex walks you through the linguistic mindfield, explaining the weird and wonderful aspects of English and many other languages.
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Rock’s image-makers, men on dancefloors and why bands can’t act like bands anymore
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This week’s items slapped on the rock and roll barbecue and lightly grilled include … … why Eurovision will never avoid political controversy. … when AI does David Hepworth! … what’s the secret of NTS radio? … “there are two types of wedding disco, ones that start with Abba's Dancing Queen and terrible ones.” … Tony Hall’s prophetic preview of Revo…
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A Word in Your Ear: Weather Words with Jenny Woodward
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Wind, clouds and rain... ABC's Roly Sussex discusses weather words alongside ABC TV Weather Presenter Jenny Woodward.Autor: Australian Broadcasting Corporation
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Paul Carrack has seen it all – beat, soul, prog, pub rock, pop & the perfect ‘slow burn’ career.
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We’ve followed Paul Carrack for 50 years, a big hit single – How Long – when he was with Ace, 19 albums, countless sessions (the Smiths, Eagles and Pretenders among them) and a touring band member with Squeeze, Roxy Music, Roger Waters and Nick Lowe. He once put out an album called ‘I Know That Name’ as for so many people he’s still under the radar…
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Nige Tassell was so obsessed with Dexys he’s tracked down all 24 ex-members
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Nige Tassell used to go to school in full donkey-jacket-and-woolly-hat ensemble to express his boundless devotion to Dexys Midnight Runners. Forty years later he set out to find and interview everyone who’d ever been a member. For some, their time in the ranks was a joyful, career-launching delight. Others felt it was like a slightly chilly and con…
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Why Nick Mason’s “cottage industry” band plays just early Pink Floyd
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Missing being on tour and exasperated by internal disputes, Nick Mason set out to tour small-scale venues with his band Saucerful Of Secrets in 2018. They’re mid-way through another world tour (Gary Kemp’s the main singer and one of the guitarists). He doesn’t miss the stadium circuit where “you need a golf cart to get from one side of the stage to…
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Let It Be revisited, the wisdom of Steve Albini and a woeful tale about Steve Marriott
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We were at the Curzon Mayfair on May 7 for the premier of the rebooted Let It Be in all its burnished finery and came away with a ton of things to unravel, among them … … what we never knew when the film came out 54 years ago. .. seeing it in the shadow of Peter Jackson’s Get Back. … how the edit was overtaken by events and the tangled reasons it t…
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Flat out like a lizard drinking! ABC's Roly Sussex discusses catchy phrases.Autor: Australian Broadcasting Corporation
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The genius of Little Feat, the Man with the Twang & pop’s greatest scandal in the making
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We stuck a few coins in this week’s Wurlitzer and these were the tunes that got played … … when records became all about sound not songs. … Fonzworth Bentley, Puff Daddy’s butler, the man who held an umbrella over him on the beach at Cannes. … what Henry Kissinger, Martha Stewart and Leonardo DiCaprio kept very quiet about. … Manchester’s Co-Op, a …
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Steve Diggle of the Buzzcocks remembers the day “a terrible beauty was born”
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Steve Diggle met Pete Shelley when the Pistols played Manchester in 1976 and the Diggle-fronted Buzzcocks are now on a world tour that began in Mexico and takes in North and South America, Europe and Australasia before winding up at the 100 Club where they played the Punk Festival 48 years ago – “we’ve come full circle”. He looks back here at the f…
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A Word In Your Ear: Phonetics and The Sounds of Language
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Lips, tongue, teeth and cheeks... ABC's Roly Sussex discusses the sounds of language.Autor: Australian Broadcasting Corporation
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Rock snobbery, the seven wives of Gregg Allman & the greatest solo on a pop record
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This week’s theories, rants, ruminations, recollections, weak gags and free and frank exchanges of view alight upon the following … … is pop music now all about identity? …. the recording of the Animals’ House of the Rising Sun and other apocryphal tales. … has any act been as ubiquitous since Frankie Goes to Hollywood in 1984? … or has anyone insp…
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Harold Bronson of Rhino Records kept a 40-year rock and roll diary…
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File this under ‘right place, right time’. Harold Bronson was a teenager in mid-60’s Los Angeles and saw every act imaginable. Then wrote for the Daily Bruin and Rolling Stone and interviewed everyone that interested him. Then managed a music store and co-founded Rhino Records, pretty much inventing the idea of the top-end reissue – “Sooner or late…
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A Word In Your Ear: The Anzac Legacy in Language
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Tell me a furphy... What is a brass razoo? ABC's Roly Sussex discusses language used during wartime.Autor: Australian Broadcasting Corporation
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The “amniotic throb” of modern pop, the eternal life of the Top Gear theme and the Blue Nile’s lucky break
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With Mark Ellen in foreign parts David Hepworth and Alex Gold light cigars, pass the port in the correct direction and discuss….. …..the fact that there is only one way to play a Beatles song and that is the way the Beatles did it. …..the chances that Taylor Swift is reaching her imperial phase and nobody is prepared to tell her what she really nee…
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A Word In Your Ear: New Words and The Yoghurt Debate
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Omnishambles? Yoghurt? ABC's Roly Sussex discusses new words and how to pronounce yoghurt.Autor: Australian Broadcasting Corporation
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Hollywood Babylon, the inspired gimmickry of Catch A Fire and the luck of Ron Wood
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We lobbed the feathered arrows of enquiry at the rock and roll dartboard this week and these got the highest scores … … rock stars v the new league of the Super-Rich. … package tours of the mid-‘60s – eight acts, an interval, a compere plus God Save the Queen. … ‘Hits, Flops and Other Illusions’ by Edward Zwick and the fantastic tale about arroganc…
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Neil Tennant remembers life “with dyed red Bowie hair and clattering platforms”
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Neil’s an old friend from our days back at Smash Hits in the early ‘80s. The first Pet Shop Boys demos were played on the office tape machine, though he was a bit self-conscious about “the one with the rap on it”. He’s always had a journalistic capacity for story-telling, remembering everything in famously entertaining detail, and we had so much ma…
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Richard Thompson – “you know it’s time to go when the audience starts throwing chairs”
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Richard Thompson first appeared onstage aged 14 playing Beatles covers in a school group “so bad we were pelted with pennies”. Sixty years later his range of operations includes touring solo and with his band, occasional reunions with Fairport Convention, residencies on Adriatic cruise ships and running a Guitar Camp in the Catskill Mountains (alon…
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A Word In Your Ear: Avoidance Language and Rhyming Slang
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A frog and toad for the road? ABC's Roly Sussex discusses avoidance language and rhyming slang.Autor: Australian Broadcasting Corporation
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Neil Tennant remembers the pop press and “the last great era of forward-looking songs"
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Neil’s an old friend from our days back at Smash Hits in the early ‘80s. The first Pet Shop Boys demos were played on the office tape machine, though he was a bit self-conscious about “the one with the rap on it”, and he’s one of the few people who’s seen the music press from every angle - as a reader in the ‘70s, as a writer and interviewer and as…
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The Stones’ clothes, our love affair with Abba & rock’s most appalling spectacle
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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 De…
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A Word in Your Ear: Advertising Language
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Catchy slogans. Memorable jingles. ABC's Roly Sussex discusses advertising language and memorable catchphrases.Autor: Australian Broadcasting Corporation
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Big Characters we have loved and why the Clash wouldn’t last ten minutes in 2024
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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…
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How Paul Cook broke into Hammersmith Odeon to see the Who, Slade, Queen & Alex Harvey
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Paul Cook’s post-Pistols band the Professionals were once, rather surprisingly, on the cover of Smash Hits - “the pinnacle of our success!” – and they’re including the 100 Club on their upcoming tour, the location of another career highlight. He talks to us here about how the first time he played live was also the Pistols’ first appearance (Saint M…
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A Word in Your Ear: Weather Words and Easter
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The Easter Bunny? It's raining cats and dogs? ABC's Roly Sussex discusses weather phrases and the origins of Easter.Autor: Australian Broadcasting Corporation
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Sharleen Spiteri saw Joe Strummer onstage and thought “that’s what I want to be”
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exas are touring in the autumn and she talks to us here about what’s required to make it all look easy, a conversation that includes … … why working in a Glaswegian hair salon was the perfect preparation for pop stardom. … the difference between the first second onstage and everything that follows. … the advantage of being a singer with an instrume…
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Album sleeves as lifestyle statements and 5 seconds that made Phil Manzanera a fortune
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The all-seeing telescope of truth scanned this week’s rock and roll heavens and noticed a few patterns emerge, among them … … the real story of the writing of Layla and who nicked what from where. And who didn’t get paid. … why Sally Grossman was on the cover of Bringing It All Back Home. … album sleeves with overflowing ashtrays that screamed ‘wel…
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Phil Manzanera Part 2: an insider’s guide to Roxy Music (and a great Bob Dylan story)
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Phil Manzanera – who thought “every day in the band felt like Christmas” – has just published his memoir, Revolución to Roxy, and talked to us about it in front of a rammed and captivated audience at London’s 21Soho, an evening so full of detail, intrigue and revelation we’re putting it out as two podcasts. This is the second. He lifts the bonnet o…
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Phil Manzanera’s enviable life in Roxy Music and beyond
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Phil Manzanera – whose relatives include a Colombian pirate, a spy and an Italian opera musician - has just published his memoir, Revolución to Roxy, and talked to us about it in front of a packed and enthralled house at London’s 21Soho, a life so fascinating, detailed and colourful we’re releasing the conversation as a two-part podcast. Here’s Par…
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Fish is bowing out to become a Hebridean shepherd. What’s he learnt in 45 years onstage?
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Fish has announced a Farewell Tour in 2025. “I’ve been there, done that and sold the t-shirt.” He’s moving to a croft on a remote Scottish island with nesting eagles, a flock of sheep named after the Hibernian FC team of 1972 and part-ownership of what’s just been voted “the best beach in the world”. Getting there is like the journey in Brigadoon. …
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A Word in Your Ear: Phrase Verbs and the Strange Origins of 'Get'
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Hang in there. Get over it. Put up with it. How did these peculiar and 'improper' phrases come to pervade the English language?Autor: Australian Broadcasting Corporation
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The extraordinary story of Steve Harley’s greatest hit
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Make Me Smile (Come Up and See Me) was a slow-paced, vicious dirge about the band members who forsook and betrayed him which magically evolved into what appeared to be an optimistic love song, a radio staple that never stopped selling. David and Mark remembered its transformation. Subscribe to Word In Your Ear on Patreon for early - and ad-free - a…
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Great divorce albums, Powerpop snobs and dark tales of 1999
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Various items set off the alarm in the rock and roll bag-check this week and were hauled back for closer inspection, among them … … when did records first try to sound like the past? … why Karl Wallinger and Robbie Williams fell out over She’s the One. ... how Marillion and Chuck D changed the digital landscape. … the only word for the sound of Fre…
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Stephen Fall’s reviewed 3,333 of his albums. Buy the book!
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Stephen Fall wrote reviews of his records, one a day, to make him a better listener. A decade later he published them in a book so colossal that we drop it on a desk to prove it’s passed the Boff Test. ‘Reviewing My Record Collection: 3,333 Albums from A to Zuma’ is a laudable labour of love, records he bought years ago and revisited, records he fo…
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Football or soccer? From kicking goals to putting the ball in their court, Roly Sussex discusses his favourite sports idioms.Autor: Australian Broadcasting Corporation
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It’s Arthur Brown, the god of hellfire … paging Health & Safety!
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Arthur Brown – enduring psychedelic godfather – is out on tour again 57 years after first performing Fire in a flaming metal crown. He’s nearly 82. This is the most old-school podcast we’ve ever done, talk of seeing Salvador Dali in his audience in a Paris nightclub, jazz bands on the back of trucks, his grandmother’s hotel being bombed in WW2, the…
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Suzi Ronson - Bowie’s stylist - knows why rock and roll is all about hair
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Suzi Ronson was working in a hairdressers in Beckenham in 1970 when a Mrs Jones dropped in for a shampoo and set talking gaily about her son, “an artistic boy who plays guitar and piano”. The same son who’d had a hit with Space Oddity and occasionally drifted down the High Road in a dress. Within weeks she’d become the first rock stylist, transform…
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How the Beatles invented pop video and acts we love who always sound the same
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Nutritious items on the rock and roll tasting menu this week include … … the curious life of Tom Verlaine, his grocery cart and his 50,000 books. … was March 9 1984 the worst week ever for the British album charts? … what all great records have in common. … Yesterday’s news today! ‘Soundies’ at the cinema and the Scopitone colour video jukebox. … w…
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A Word in Your Ear: Syllables and Full Stops
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White house? Mardi Gras? Roly Sussex discusses the muddling of syllables, and the changing face of the full stop.Autor: Australian Broadcasting Corporation
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Is social media killing pop music? And where have all the bands gone?
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Caught in the piercing super-trouper of perusal this week … ... the BRITS 2024, a howling embarrassment. … Medieval Beatles! She Came In Through the Privy Window, Everybody’s Got Something To Hide Except Me And My Kestrel, Comely Rita, I’m Happy Just To Joust With You … … the wisdom of Tony Hancock. … The Last Dinner Party and other ‘art concepts’.…
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For Henry Normal comedy is like “sugar and salt”
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Henry Normal set up Baby Cow Productions with Steve Coogan, co-wrote the Royle Family, Coogan’s Run and Mrs Merton and produced Gavin & Stacy and Red Dwarf. He’s been a central plank in British comedy since the early ‘90s and, throughout it all, developed his own stage show built around poems and stories. He’s touring the UK with Brian Bilston. Thi…
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Steve Howe of Yes tells a few tales from topographic oceans
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Steve Howe talks to us from the old house and studio in Devon where they rehearsed ‘The Yes Album’ in 1970. He’s been recording there for 54 years and is part of the current line-up about to set out around Europe. He looks back here on what he’s learnt from 60 years onstage and mentions … … the effect of seeing Chuck Berry, Carl Perkins and The Ani…
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Catfishing? Dogfishing? And what about breadcrumbing? Roly unveils the surprising origins of animal-based words, and the unexpected impact those words have had on the language of dating.Autor: Australian Broadcasting Corporation
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The evergreen record that’s 50 years old & Jeremy Thorpe at a hippie commune
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As this week’s rock and roll steeplechase thunders out over the jumps, the following runners and riders make it past the post … … “First he changed music. Then he changed the world!” and other over-cooked biopic sells. … Billy Joel returns by the miracle of Artificial Ignorance. … what you learn from visiting rock stars’ childhood homes. … what’s M…
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Richard Coles has faced every audience imaginable, one armed with pea-shooters
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The Reverend Richard Coles is back on tour with his ‘Borderline National Trinket’ show and talks to us from his home in Sussex where he’s “the only person in the village who hasn’t won a BAFTA”. This looks back at his life – “a CV like the work of a fantasist” - and what he’s learnt from 50 years of watching various types of stage entertainment and…
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A Word in Your Ear: Month Pronounciation
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Feb-RAR-y? Feb-RY? Feb-YOR-ary? How do you say February?Autor: Australian Broadcasting Corporation
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For Jah Wobble driving tube trains was even more thrilling than playing Glastonbury
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Jah Wobble - aka John Wardle - wrote ‘Dark Luminosity: Memoirs of a Geezer’ in 2009. It’s just been reworked, expanded and republished and it’s well worth reading, full of detail about growing up in the East End, unexploded bombs, pickling factories, grim schooldays, record shops and clubs, the bands he saw and his arrival at Kingsway College where…
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Steve Wright and other great radioheads, McCartney’s bass & the non-profits of Python
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Pausing occasionally to spark a Senior Service and sink a milk stout, we kick cans down this week’s rock and roll boulevard stopping off at the following hotspots … … the “Grunge Dripdown”: why Pearl Jam can play 60,000 seaters. … the Elton Line, the Dury Line, the Bragg Line, the Kirsty Line …. What the London Overgrounds should have been called a…
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Max Décharné reboots the golden age of the Teddy Boys
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If a film director wanted to flag up incoming violence in the late ‘50s, the camera would fall upon a couple of Teds lurking in the street outside. The teenage Keith Richards remembers razors, bike chains and bloodshed at dance halls and there was an infamous Teddy Boy murder on Clapham Common that plunged the nation into frantic, media-led moral p…
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Guy Garvey remembers the Grumbleweeds in panto, Santana fantasies & a song nicked from Roy Castle
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Guy Garvey and Elbow start touring the UK in May and he looks back here at the first shows he saw growing up in Bury in the ’70s - when his five elders introduced him to punk, prog, folk, soul and Elton John - and proudly admits he still doesn’t know the names of the guitar strings. Look out for … … the secrets of the “Vanity Thrust” and other 21st…
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