Word Down Your Way

David Crosby was famous for nearly 60 years, a celebrity sustained by records, tours, brushes with the law and serial disagreements with old pals and collaborators (he was the very definition of a non-team player). We look back fondly at various stops alo

Word Down Your Way

Our old pal from Word magazine Kate Mossman adored Jeff Beck and the whole range of his recordings and interviewed him recently for the New Statesman. This pod features the outlandish techniques he developed, his cars and Afghan hounds, his “six wives”, h

Tony King was there when it all started, working for Decca in the late 50s, plugging records on Housewives Choice and Family Favourites and looking after visiting Americans like the Ronettes, Roy Orbison and Phil Spector. He went on to become a close fr

in which we amble fearlessly into the New Year in tireless pursuit of amusement, stopping off at various stations along the way, among them    can any song be completely original?  meeting Sun Ra.  the time Gianluca Vialli kissed

Things explored this week in pursuit of entertainment and diversion   Neil Tennant interviews Malcolm McLaren and other delights in Smash Hits, January 1983.  theres no such thing as a finished record!  the link between Cliff & t

The full and extraordinary story of the Zelig-like Cutler poet, performer, broadcaster, playwright, surrealist, humorist is mapped out in Bruce Lindsays exceptional new book, Ivor Cutler: A Life Outside the Living Room. Most of us discovered him

Army greatcoats, plastic trousers, cowboy boots, scoop-neck t-shirts with bell sleeves the list of laughable clobber and accessories we briefly thought were acceptable because rock stars wore them is delightfully long and shameful.Also in the crosshairs

Gordon Raphael was the sonic architect of arguably the two most important and influential albums of the noughties - The Strokes' 'Is This It' and its follow-up 'Room On Fire', and in this special Word In Your Ear chat with 'Magic' Alex Gold he talks about