
How a nine-year-old boy kick-started Rock’n’Roll (and other stories)
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Where the Gold Bracelets of Sincerity and Wisdom and the Rod of Equity and Mercy meet the piping hot music news agenda in a weekly podcast and alight upon the following ….
… the greatest singer of sad songs we’ve ever heard.
… the extraordinary tale of the B-side of ‘13 Women And Only One Man’.
… songs you couldn’t record these days.
… Rufus Wainwright’s re-recording of Neil Young’s Harvest – but CAN modern technology possibly make it sound any better?
… Noel Coward in the Italian Job.
... the mystifying UK pop charts at the time of the last Coronation.
… old records we’ve re-discovered: this week, Bonnie Raitt’s magnificent Give It Up (and especially Love Has No Pride).
… John Prine’s Angel From Montgomery.
… Gordon Lightfoot: why Dylan adored him and the tale of The Wreck Of The Edmund Fitzgerald.
… the return of Frankie Goes To Hollywood and the excellent current occupation of Brian ‘Nasher’ Nash.
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