
There are only three Rock National Treasures – and we name them!
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Our ‘big air’ manoeuvres on the rock and roll ski jump this week land the following tricks …
… why don’t we re-use old protest songs instead of writing new ones?
… “a temple of music and gothic lust:” would YOU buy Jim Steinman’s unsellable home?
… when Madness played on the Buck House roof
… Ptolomaic Terrascope? Aquarium Drunkard? Real and made-up music magazines
… “too complicated, not catchy, like a high-minded think-piece”: U2’s Days Of Ash EP
… when the Ramones invaded the London library
… Rod, Elton, Adele, Noel, Ed … do they cut it as National Treasures?
… “the best sport still works with the sound off”
… what links Steely Dan to American College Football?
… plus the Bishop of Ramsbury, Robyn’s “dream doner” and birthday guest Keith Adsley with a quiz about American college football walk-out music.
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