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For the love of Françoise Hardy, Ben Sidran and the TV comedy Twenty Twelve
Among the logs tossed on the conversational bonfire this week to combat mid-June’s British winter you’ll find …
… ‘I Managed Van Morrison’ and other films screaming to be made.
… how it feels to watch someone play from the best seat in the house.
… Françoise Hardy, her unsmiling photos and legions of besotted male admirers (ie us and everyone else).
… the time she met Dylan and Nick Drake.
… Juliette Greco, Edith Piaf and the handful of French stars who made it across the Channel.
… the joy of small venues: “the bigger the gig, the smaller a component of the experience the actual performance is”.
… Elvis Costello’s photographic memory.
… Maria Muldaur with Earl Palmer and Amos Garrett.
… why Twenty Twelve says more about British life than any other TV show.
... the terrible jokes of Ronnie Scott.
… “Kate Bush grew up in a world without sarcasm.”
… Siobhan Sharpe, Bertie Wooster, the Artful Dodger, Basil Fawlty, Edina & Patsy and other deathless British fictional stereotypes.
… plus birthday guest Paul Thompson and books tracking down people who’ve played with Dexys and Dylan. And who should be next - Hawkwind, Van Morrison?
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Відео

Stewart Lee knows the rigours of ‘animal costume work’ and why great comedy is about shock
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Stewart Lee - beloved writer, columnist and stand-up - was on the podcast in 2022 talking about the first records he bought, immensely funny and fascinating, and we’ve been praying for an excuse to get him back since. And it’s here! - he’s on tour again and his ‘Basic Lee’ show is on Sky/Now TV on July 20. This covers his first memories of live entertainment - in the audience and as a performer...
How Springsteen went “six deep”, fictional rock hacks and who’s more conservative than Liam Galla...
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In which we hoof a few balls round the rock and roll pitch and try to stick some in the net. Extracts from the live match commentary include …. … “Whipping Post!” “Paint it black, you devil!”: when did the audience become part of the show? … the special, unrepeatable thing about Bill Evans At The Village Vanguard. … GambleGate and the most we’ve ever bet on anything. … why young musicians today...
Great album trilogies, suing Madonna and "the pantheon of psychedelic heaviosity"
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This week the conversational Super-Trouper of Enquiry lights up the following … ... why care when "rock critics get it wrong"? ... the dreadful death of the Allman brothers' dad. ... is there any other branch of entertainment where you can be two hours late onstage? ... has any show got worse reviews than Eddie Izzard's one-woman Hamlet? ... the unlikely tale of how Iron Butterfly changed the c...
Clive Gregson - Any Trouble, Stiff and ‘the moment I thought I’d won the Lottery’
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Clive Gregson was the leader of Any Trouble (signed to Stiff in the ‘80s) and went on to join Richard and Linda Thompson’s band, team up with Christine Collister, release over 20 solo albums and spend 15 years in Nashville working as a session musician and producer. His new group the Guilty Men have an album out soon called Invisible Confetti. Here he digs out a few old records and remembers … ...
Only Clare Grogan knows how it feels to burst onstage from a giant birthday cake
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Clare Grogan, a regular on our podcasts and rarely off the cover when we were at Smash Hits, is on tour again with Altered Images and playing festivals in the summer - indeed her fabulous description of the bus ferrying her, Midge Ure, Nik Kershaw, Kim Wilde and Living in A Box to the stage at Rewind sounds like an old Smash Hits cartoon come to life. As she points out, “the ‘80s revival has go...
The wit and charisma of Kate Bush by Graeme Thomson: going too far makes you what you are
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Graeme is an old friend of the podcast. We’ve talked to him in the past about his books on Phil Lynott and John Martyn. ‘Under The Ivy: the Life And Music of Kate Bush’ first appeared in 2010, and was revised in 2015 after her Before the Dawn concerts and it’s now been updated again as, despite no new music or public appearances, her worldwide reputation has rocketed through the roof. We look b...
The spectacular Dead & Co, songs performed backwards & happy birthday Diamond Dogs!
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Tuning into this week's rock and roll soundwave to filter signal from noise, we cranked up the volume on the following ... ... 'Zuma Nester Rock' and the eternal curse of rock stars' kids' names. ... Bowie's spat with Robbie Williams at Netaid. ... celebrating awkward sods like Kevin Rowland. ... why Paul Carrack has seen it all. ... 'Lewis' Armstrong, 'Hoosker Doo' and others we've been pronou...
Jon Savage - Dusty’s wig, Bowie’s bombshell and how gay pop culture changed music
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“I thought Dave Davies of the Kinks was a girl. When I discovered he was a boy, that’s when I got interested.” Jon’s an old friend of the podcast and the author of some highly regarded and influential books about pop and its repercussions, ‘England’s Dreaming’ and ‘1966: the Year The Decade Exploded’ among them. His latest is ‘The Secret Public: How LGBTQ Performers Shaped Popular Culture 1955-...
“Abba’s success is more about us than them”: Giles Smith looks back at a 50-year love affair
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Giles was 12 when he watched Abba win Eurovision in 1974 and was instantly besotted - and thus required to spend the next 20 years wrestling with The Love That Dare Not Speak Its Name. His thunderingly funny, fond and illuminating book - My My!: Abba Through The Years - traces their story, looks at the snobbery and critical mauling they endured and figures out how they made records so universal...
The Architect of Mod: how Peter Meaden restyled and launched the Who - by Steve Turner
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Peter Meaden was a key figure in the Mod movement. He changed the world view of Andrew Loog Oldham, which shaped the early Stones, and he managed the Who, remodelling their look and sound, writing their first single and turning them into Mod figureheads. Steve Turner interviewed him in 1975, an exchange that's now the centrepiece of his new book 'King Mod: the Story of Peter Meaden, the Who and...
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 Revolver in May '66 - “they shatter convention and ...
Why They Might Be Giants now perform an entire song backwards
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They Might Be Giants - old school fiends John Flansburgh and John Linnell - have been making elliptical, funny and adventurous records for over 40 years and writing music for children, advertising and TV comedies. We talk to John Linnell here about songwriting, early shows in art spaces, the way you saw the world when a "wiseacrey teenager" and what you can expect from their autumn tour. Which,...
Guy Chambers - writing with Robbie, a tangle with Bowie & half a bagel with Paul McCartney
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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’
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Alan Edwards, pop PR - ‘Bowie was like King Arthur and the Spice Girls like the Pistols’
Let It Be revisited, the wisdom of Steve Albini and a woeful tale about Steve Marriott
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Let It Be revisited, the wisdom of Steve Albini and a woeful tale about Steve Marriott
Paul Carrack has seen it all - beat, soul, prog, pub rock, pop & the perfect ‘slow burn’ career
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Paul Carrack has seen it all - beat, soul, prog, pub rock, pop & the perfect ‘slow burn’ career
Nige Tassell was so obsessed with Dexys he’s tracked down all 24 ex-members
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Nige Tassell was so obsessed with Dexys he’s tracked down all 24 ex-members
Why Nick Mason’s “cottage industry” band plays just early Pink Floyd
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Why Nick Mason’s “cottage industry” band plays just early Pink Floyd
The genius of Little Feat, the Man with the Twang & pop’s greatest scandal in the making
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The genius of Little Feat, the Man with the Twang & pop’s greatest scandal in the making
Steve Diggle of the Buzzcocks remembers the day “a terrible beauty was born”.
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Steve Diggle of the Buzzcocks remembers the day “a terrible beauty was born”.
Harold Bronson of Rhino Records kept a 40-year rock and roll diary …
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Harold Bronson of Rhino Records kept a 40-year rock and roll diary …
The “amniotic throb” of modern pop, the eternal life of the Top Gear theme and the Blue Nile’s lu...
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The “amniotic throb” of modern pop, the eternal life of the Top Gear theme and the Blue Nile’s lu...
Hollywood Babylon, the inspired gimmickry of Catch A Fire and the luck of Ron Wood
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Hollywood Babylon, the inspired gimmickry of Catch A Fire and the luck of Ron Wood
Neil Tennant remembers life “with dyed red Bowie hair and clattering platforms”
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Neil Tennant remembers life “with dyed red Bowie hair and clattering platforms”
Neil Tennant remembers the pop press and “the last great era of forward-looking songs"
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Neil Tennant remembers the pop press and “the last great era of forward-looking songs"
Richard Thompson - “you know it’s time to go when the audience starts throwing chairs”
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Richard Thompson - “you know it’s time to go when the audience starts throwing chairs”
The Stones’ clothes, our love affair with Abba & rock’s most appalling spectacle
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The Stones’ clothes, our love affair with Abba & rock’s most appalling spectacle
Big Characters we have loved and why the Clash wouldn’t last ten minutes in 2024
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Big Characters we have loved and why the Clash wouldn’t last ten minutes in 2024
How Paul Cook broke into Hammersmith Odeon to see the Who, Slade, Queen & Alex Harvey
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How Paul Cook broke into Hammersmith Odeon to see the Who, Slade, Queen & Alex Harvey

КОМЕНТАРІ

  • @popeyesailor9571
    @popeyesailor9571 3 години тому

    Ed Mann told me that Frank boasted to him that my drum and bugle corps the Concord Blue Devils were playing Enchinda's Arf (of you) as the percussion feature and in 2017 the Canton Bluecoats played Zomby woof with the whole corps and now this year (2024) the Boston Crusaders are playin gG-Spot Tornadeo. My son got his line mates in the pit to play Black Page in Individual and ensemble competition.

  • @juliemarsh9464
    @juliemarsh9464 4 години тому

    😢I luv John what he speaks is true of a lot of us growing up. It was just life of the working class. He has never had any heirs and graces. Down to earth and REAL. I luv Alice too John. ❤❤

  • @foxbasealpha
    @foxbasealpha 9 годин тому

    Françoise Hardy was old enough to be my mother, but boy, she made my heart flutter and my ears swoon.

  • @kennethtaylor541
    @kennethtaylor541 12 годин тому

    What a fantastic episode. Had me smiling and chuckling the whole way through.

  • @spinynorman8217
    @spinynorman8217 13 годин тому

    Most interesting and funny until he blamed the right for culture wars..how he works that out l don't know. His opinion and he's entitled to it though.

  • @Smudgie
    @Smudgie 13 годин тому

    Both French and German music fans seem to be extremely loyal to singers and bands longer than British fans, who I think tend to be more contemporary in their tastes? Many bands from the seventies and eighties can still tour and make a good living. Particularly in Germany.

  • @colinmitchell6872
    @colinmitchell6872 16 годин тому

    20:00 how Jacqui joined TBS.

  • @dogbreaththe3rd851
    @dogbreaththe3rd851 16 годин тому

    Being actual conservatives would be a better strategy.

  • @thepartimemusician65
    @thepartimemusician65 16 годин тому

    Wonderful interview guys

  • @SubTroppo
    @SubTroppo 17 годин тому

    I saw Rubén González [born 1919] and the other members of the Beuna Vista Social Club in 1997; they were all knocking on. Was the inspiration for the BBC Twenty Twelve Olympics spoof "The Games" which was a mockumentary of/for the Sydney Olympics in 2000?

    • @JJONNYREPP
      @JJONNYREPP 17 годин тому

      the dvd was free with some tawdry sunday broadsheet...

  • @jonathancole833
    @jonathancole833 20 годин тому

    I like to think that I support this channel by religiously watching every advertisement that is inserted into each episode, and always giving a thumbs-up.

  • @jonathancole833
    @jonathancole833 20 годин тому

    Actually Scotland's 1977 victory over England was achieved at Wembley and not Hampden Park, hence the greater incentive to invade the pitch and tear down the goalposts.

  • @sue-ellen4721
    @sue-ellen4721 20 годин тому

    As an older woman I've come to appreciate Björn's lyrics together with the music more and more. They got more and more interesting until The Visitors album.

  • @gedlynch1
    @gedlynch1 День тому

    Wonderful stuff..xX

  • @garyrigby21
    @garyrigby21 День тому

    i thought Throbbing Gristle were from Hull? then moved to London

    • @jalijali8448
      @jalijali8448 9 годин тому

      Gen came from Manchester, Cosey was from Hull, Peter from Leeds & Chris from London. Coum was formed in Hull

    • @garyrigby21
      @garyrigby21 8 годин тому

      @@jalijali8448 they had nothing to do with Solihull. Stew must be getting it wrong

  • @andyeasy3320
    @andyeasy3320 День тому

    I bought 'Across a Crowded Room' after seeing RT on TOGWT.

  • @drychaf
    @drychaf 2 дні тому

    Only a couple of days ago I watched his last interview with you (done two years ago, I've got a lot of catching up to do on this channel!) , and here he is again! Great!! A very tuned in bloke, Mr Lee.

  • @garyrigby21
    @garyrigby21 2 дні тому

    Stewart Lee, Jerry Sadowitz, Chris Morris, Peter Cook my Comedy heroes

  • @tottaylor2093
    @tottaylor2093 2 дні тому

    a new song ... on this Election Day ... a song for RISHI ... it's about Climate Change - it's called RISHI'S RAIN ua-cam.com/video/ZPQbygz-nhk/v-deo.html

  • @foxbasealpha
    @foxbasealpha 2 дні тому

    Spooky Tooth is another late 1960s band name with the adjective-noun combo.

  • @johnnywright1974
    @johnnywright1974 2 дні тому

    I remember Jacqui working at Star value in town when she got asked to go to Hull to sing with Paul. The rest is history.

  • @user-fb3vd8yn5i
    @user-fb3vd8yn5i 2 дні тому

    If there is any redemption, she has gone down as the greatest female voice in history. ♥

  • @sianwarwick633
    @sianwarwick633 2 дні тому

    I might buy this because it features the original Small Town Talk, which a favoured guitarist has covered. And i love that song. Simples, as the kids say

  • @KevKavanagh
    @KevKavanagh 2 дні тому

    You've just referenced a particularly loved scene from a sentimental favourite film which I'll heartily endorse still! ua-cam.com/video/qXjCtgiUEu8/v-deo.html

  • @SubTroppo
    @SubTroppo 2 дні тому

    Live International quiz: Er... not for me in my +9 or +10 timezone.

  • @davidayer2168
    @davidayer2168 2 дні тому

    The answer is "The moon stood still/On Blueberry Hill"

  • @179077
    @179077 2 дні тому

    Came to this after watching Paul Heaton at Glastonbury- what a treat so natural and the sort of person who all my sisters would love.

  • @sianwarwick633
    @sianwarwick633 3 дні тому

    I know Blaine. Oh, no i don't, i'm thinking of another Blaine

  • @SRDhain
    @SRDhain 3 дні тому

    Great show 😁 Liam was joined on stage by Paul 'bonehead' Arthurs for the first night at Sheffield on the Definitely Maybe tour, so at least one other member of the original line up was there. Unlike Kraftwerk, who've effectively been Ralf Hutter and other guys who wern't in the band since Florian Schneider (rest in peace), left in 2008.And I'm still holding out for a new album 🌅

  • @Bambloozled
    @Bambloozled 3 дні тому

    Laugh out loud funny. Everyone is in top form. Clare is always wonderful.

  • @Suburbangeek
    @Suburbangeek 3 дні тому

    A fantastic way to spend an hour - one of my favourite interviews, guys. Went straight over to Amazon and bookmarked Ad Lib to read in the Oz summer holidays.

  • @user-ky6to4uq5m
    @user-ky6to4uq5m 3 дні тому

    I could be totally wrong here but on the subject of the Japanese girl idol group, I believe one of the reasons for the huge turnover of members would be that they will probably be discarded once they reach a certain age in a kind of musical Logan’s Run rule, but often disturbingly they will also be let go if they don’t meet body aesthetics too. Many of these groups are routinely monitored for things like weight and will be out if they don’t meet the metrics.

  • @user-ky6to4uq5m
    @user-ky6to4uq5m 3 дні тому

    The Saints released their first 3 LPs all within a staggering period of 20 months. (I’m)Stranded- Feb 77, Eternally Yours -May 78, Prehistoric Sounds - Oct 78. And the progress of sound in that time is insane. Easily my favourite trilogy of albums.

  • @corduroyempire
    @corduroyempire 3 дні тому

    The Cure - 17 Seconds, Faith and Pornography.

  • @loratadine921
    @loratadine921 4 дні тому

    Fairport's What We Did On Our Holidays, Unhalfbricking, and Liege & Lief are a terrific trilogy - and were ALL released in 1969. p.s. Crispy Ambulance.

  • @user-td5of9nw8n
    @user-td5of9nw8n 4 дні тому

    Someone convinced Jon Anderson he wrote 'Owner of a lonely heart'.

  • @stinkypinkeee5085
    @stinkypinkeee5085 4 дні тому

    ...and robbing charities...Geldof is scum...and no, I didn't watch...

  • @johnbarry1965
    @johnbarry1965 4 дні тому

    The first three Clash albums, except the second!!😂

  • @paulmcevoy7003
    @paulmcevoy7003 5 днів тому

    His view of Eurovision now compared to then is actually opposite. People could laugh at how ridiculous the badly written but extremely distinctive tunes were in the 70s . Whereas now every country comes out with uniformly banal garbage that even Simon Cowell would approve of .

  • @thejigantics2641
    @thejigantics2641 5 днів тому

    Loved Gregson Collister. Christine was special and is a lovely person

  • @_corvus_callosum_
    @_corvus_callosum_ 6 днів тому

    I've always wondered how 'Coo Coo Daddy Long Legs' would have ended if "Buddy Holly" hadn't put his head through the floor...

  • @MrGiampao
    @MrGiampao 6 днів тому

    stories of a courageous musician generation, unrepeatable, very nice!

  • @Ramoanz
    @Ramoanz 6 днів тому

    Have followed John from the very early days, his no BS attitude is a breath of fresh air, never get tired of listening to him, he always speaks the truth and his love for his wife is an example to us all.

  • @francisanosissi1
    @francisanosissi1 7 днів тому

    King crimson.. discipline,beat,3of a perfect pair...Dylan also considered love and theft,modern times and together through life as the trilogy..and time out of mind as stand alone..

  • @kennethtaylor541
    @kennethtaylor541 7 днів тому

    Fear Of Music - Remain In Light - Speaking In Tongues.

  • @david-sn1yl
    @david-sn1yl 7 днів тому

    The Stranglers - Rattus Norvegicus, No More Heroes, Black & White.

  • @ozmonaut1
    @ozmonaut1 7 днів тому

    Brian Eno's first three perhaps, Roxy Music's first three at a stretch

  • @SubTroppo
    @SubTroppo 8 днів тому

    Butterfly Bleu is THE Iron Butterfly track for me; it has the voice tube thingy. I have my own theory that the drummer 'Animal' in the 'Muppets' was partly based on the Iron Butterfly drummer as can be seen on the Butter Fly Bleu video on German TV [UA-cam; Beat Club].

    • @selwyn77
      @selwyn77 4 дні тому

      The whole album "Metamorphosis" is good, but rarely mentioned. Mind you, you had to have heard it back in the day !

  • @olliebeak131
    @olliebeak131 8 днів тому

    "Saddleworth" There's no such place anymore. Only tory twits who live thereabouts still refer to it as such....

  • @colmoynihan724
    @colmoynihan724 8 днів тому

    They're wrong about the NME story which appeared in early '75. Nick Kent wrote a quite a moving piece, acknowledging Drake's lack of wider commercial appeal, and then proceeded to analyse the music across his three solo albums. It was Kent's feature article that got me curious about Drake, and marked the beginning of my quest to check him out. I wasn't disappointed. I'm sure there must've been many regular NME readers who did the same. It still took another 10-15 years for the rest of the world to catch up, but give credit where credit's due. Thanks to Kent's article, I'm sure like me, interest Drake began to gather pace