Τα καλύτερα Word In Your Ear podcast (2024)

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Happy accidents, whooping at gigs and why the album review star system doesn’t work anymore 49:32

6h ago49:32

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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 ev…

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A Word in Your Ear: Grandparents and 'Cold Turkey' 18:34

5d ago18:34

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Marmee? Gram? Gramps? Papa? This week, Roly Sussex discusses the words we use for our older relatives.Από τον Australian Broadcasting Corporation

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Pop football chants, Reg ‘Reg’ Snipton sings Joni Mitchell & the tale of John Lennon’s watch 51:39

6d ago51:39

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The two-man tandem of curiosity wobbles its way down the rock and roll cyclepath pausing here to admire the view … … “We’re captive on the carousel of TIME-AH!!”: tuneless Northern club singer Reg “Reg” Snipton performs Ver Greats. … is going to gigs alone becoming a thing? ... why Phil Oakey was a better musician than any of ELP. … Seven Nation Ar…

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Only Clare Grogan knows how it feels to burst onstage from a giant birthday cake 38:36

9d ago38:36

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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 li…

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A Word in Your Ear: Written vs Spoken Languages 28:44

12d ago28:44

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Are all written languages spoken? And are all spoken languages written?Από τον Australian Broadcasting Corporation

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The wit and charisma of Kate Bush by Graeme Thomson: going too far makes you what you are 43:46

12d ago43:46

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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 repu…

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For the love of Françoise Hardy, Ben Sidran and the TV comedy Twenty Twelve 41:18

13d ago41:18

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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)…

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Stewart Lee knows the rigours of ‘animal costume work’ and why great comedy is about shock 48:50

15d ago48:50

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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 ent…

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A Word in Your Ear: Pub Names and Bar Chat 24:09

19d ago24:09

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From The Churchill Arms to Ye Old Fighting Cocks, there's a whole "alien" language associated with pub talk.Από τον Australian Broadcasting Corporation

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How Springsteen went “six deep”, fictional rock hacks and who’s more conservative than Liam Gallagher? 46:24

20d ago46:24

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You’ll always find us in the kitchen at parties, near the hoppy summer ale and sausage rolls and, and this week discussing … … he hasn't changed his look or sound for 30 years: is there a more conservative concept than Liam Gallagher? And how he became the one-man Oasis. … the eye-watering sum Kevin Hart made from Jumanji: Welcome to the Jungle. … …

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Jon Savage - Dusty’s wig, Bowie’s bombshell and how gay pop culture changed music 34:04

22d ago34:04

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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: Ho…

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“Abba’s success is more about us than them”: Giles Smith looks back at a 50-year love affair 37:38

22d ago37:38

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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…

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the Architect of Mod: how Peter Meaden restyled and launched the Who - by Steve Turner 39:49

24d ago39:49

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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 'K…

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Great album trilogies, suing Madonna and "the pantheon of psychedelic heaviosity" 47:11

27d ago47:11

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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 un…

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A Word in Your Ear: The Language of Music 34:53

1M ago34:53

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Music has the uncanny ability to be understood by anyone, anywhere. But why? And how did music develop its own kind of "language"?Από τον Australian Broadcasting Corporation

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The spectacular Dead & Co, songs performed backwards & happy birthday Diamond Dogs! 43:29

1M ago43:29

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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' Armstr…

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Why They Might Be Giants now perform an entire song backwards 27:04

1M ago27:04

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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 wha…

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Guy Chambers - writing with Robbie, a tangle with Bowie & half a bagel with Paul McCartney 36:35

1M ago36:35

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Guy Chambers was a teenager in Liverpool and at John Lennon’s old school - "same headmaster, Mister Pobjoy". He remembers the Beatles, Queen, Abba and Jesus Christ Superstar sparking his interest in the "perfect song package" and went on to work with Tina Turner, Rufus Wainwright, Kylie, Diana Ross and scores of others. He talks here about early sh…

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A Word in Your Ear: Feminine and Gendered Language 24:34

1M ago24:34

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From ships and professions to family structures and pronouns, Roly Sussex navigates the complex web of gendered language.Από τον Australian Broadcasting Corporation

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Alan Edwards, pop PR – ‘Bowie was like King Arthur and the Spice Girls like the Pistols’ 42:16

1M ago42:16

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We’ve known Alan Edwards since the days when we’d ring him for a quote from Blondie or the Stranglers in the late ‘70s and he’s still one of the key figures in music PR. He’s looked after the Stones, Prince, Michael Jackson, Blondie, Amy Winehouse, the Beckhams and many others. No-one is better positioned to see how that world has changed, from the…

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Rock’s image-makers, men on dancefloors and why bands can’t act like bands anymore 55:09

1M ago55:09

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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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Paul Carrack has seen it all – beat, soul, prog, pub rock, pop & the perfect ‘slow burn’ career. 37:30

2M ago37:30

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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 35:19

2M ago35:19

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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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A Word in Your Ear: Weather Words with Jenny Woodward 23:09

2M ago23:09

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Wind, clouds and rain... ABC's Roly Sussex discusses weather words alongside ABC TV Weather Presenter Jenny Woodward.Από τον Australian Broadcasting Corporation

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Why Nick Mason’s “cottage industry” band plays just early Pink Floyd 27:29

2M ago27:29

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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 53:26

2M ago53:26

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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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A Word in Your Ear: Catchy Phrases 23:34

2M ago23:34

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Flat out like a lizard drinking! ABC's Roly Sussex discusses catchy phrases.Από τον Australian Broadcasting Corporation

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The genius of Little Feat, the Man with the Twang & pop’s greatest scandal in the making 46:14

2M ago46:14

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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” 30:18

2M ago30:18

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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 22:49

2M ago22:49

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Lips, tongue, teeth and cheeks... ABC's Roly Sussex discusses the sounds of language.Από τον Australian Broadcasting Corporation

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Rock snobbery, the seven wives of Gregg Allman & the greatest solo on a pop record 1:03:52

2M ago1:03:52

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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… 39:55

2M ago39:55

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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 23:48

2M ago23:48

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Tell me a furphy... What is a brass razoo? ABC's Roly Sussex discusses language used during wartime.Από τον 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 47:48

2M ago47:48

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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 27:20

3M ago27:20

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Omnishambles? Yoghurt? ABC's Roly Sussex discusses new words and how to pronounce yoghurt.Από τον Australian Broadcasting Corporation

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Hollywood Babylon, the inspired gimmickry of Catch A Fire and the luck of Ron Wood 58:43

3M ago58:43

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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” 43:54

3M ago43:54

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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” 24:01

3M ago24:01

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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 18:51

3M ago18:51

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A frog and toad for the road? ABC's Roly Sussex discusses avoidance language and rhyming slang.Από τον Australian Broadcasting Corporation

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Neil Tennant remembers the pop press and “the last great era of forward-looking songs" 36:37

3M ago36:37

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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 47:26

3M ago47:26

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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 20:54

3M ago20:54

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Catchy slogans. Memorable jingles. ABC's Roly Sussex discusses advertising language and memorable catchphrases.Από τον Australian Broadcasting Corporation

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Big Characters we have loved and why the Clash wouldn’t last ten minutes in 2024 46:51

3M ago46:51

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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 18:16

3M ago18:16

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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 21:02

3M ago21:02

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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.Από τον Australian Broadcasting Corporation

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Sharleen Spiteri saw Joe Strummer onstage and thought “that’s what I want to be” 35:14

3M ago35:14

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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 36:40

3M ago36:40

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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) 43:07

3M ago43:07

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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 38:45

3M ago38:45

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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? 46:11

3M ago46:11

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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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