Further nutritious items on the pods tasting menu this week include   the story of Tubular Bells and how the Exorcist sent its sales through the roof.  beneath the surface of every band is a drama waiting to kick off: the Views reunion gig

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 weve ever heard.  the extraordinary

Encountering the cheerful ping-pong bats of conversation this week youll find   the most unprepossessing rock band on Gods green earth.  Ed Sheeran v Marvin Gaye the case continues. But does anybody genuinely copy anyone else these days

Items run up the flagpole this week include   our memories of the exquisite agony of teenage dances, especially Daves at the Mecca Ballroom in Wakefield, 1965. ... unforgettable things said and done by Dame Edna Everage and Sir Les Patterson.

Dipping our shrimping nets this week into the ever-bountiful rock and roll rock pool we find   Dylan, Madonna, Pharrell Williams, Michael Jackson, Nick Cave and Keith Richards which one didnt write a childrens book?  S Club 7, Miles Davis

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This weeks trawl of the rock and roll outer limits alights, among others, on the following sizzling hot topics  ... a lost Beatles tape and the night they played Stowe School 60 years ago.  the return of the Stackwaddy game: were there really

Being on tour with King Crimson, in the words of their film director, is like being with the school rugby team and, at the last minute, the games teacher falls ill so they send them out with the maths master. But the team starts winning ... Is there a

Paul Wellers been writing songs for 50 years now and hes chosen over 100 of his lyrics for the new and gorgeous, picture-packed publication Paul Weller: Magic A Journal Of Song, each accompanied by his memories of how and why he wrote it compiled fr

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