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Rock stars we envy, Madonna as a sister-in-law & the British obsession with poshness
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Bowie, Boy George and the rise of the riotous Blitz club with Robert Elms
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The Prince story by 200 people who knew him - and John McKie
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The three London kids who invented rock style
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Danny Thompson’s bass adventures, Dylan’s women, TV satire and great sleeve art.
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Thea Gilmore on Joan Baez, Jake Thackray and Dave Pegg’s dog starting her career
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How pioneer tape-rat Roger Armstrong found vintage America a whole new audience
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Why Van and Fairport make the perfect send-off, Robert Redford & the best-looking rock stars
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John Prine, Elvis Costello and a jukebox on fire
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Alex's star-studded week in Hollywood
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Peter Hammill on Bowie, other superfans & 47 albums of ‘self-sabotage and chaos’.
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Talking Heads, where they came from and where they went - with Jonathan Gould
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Freddie Mercury has a daughter’ – and Lesley-Ann Jones can prove it
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Oasis in 2026, the Troggs and what Morrissey’s only gone and done now!
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‘Hey Joe’, its miracle birth & why violent songs are like True Crime - by Jason Schneider
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Maddy Prior of Steeleye Span drove Rev Gary Davis round Britain in a Triumph Herald
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Why reviews lost their sting - and what matters more, the song or the record?
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Debsey Wykes of Dolly Mixture wants you to read her teenage diary
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Singers’ vast egos explained and what’s the real definition of ‘a fan’?
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Neil Hannon - the Divine Comedy, the Father Ted saga & nights at the Indie Disco
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Tanita Tikaram - from ‘girl with guitar in bedroom’ to Hammersmith Odeon in six months
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Bob Mould remembers Hüsker Dü, Sugar & that guy with the hipster moustache
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Comedy records, TV gold & have Oasis and Coldplay hoovered up all the cash?
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Brian Protheroe on the eternal life of his 1974 hit “Pinball”
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Terry Reid, the man who really invented Led Zeppelin, & guitar fetishism
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Peter Ames Carlin on the record that made Bruce Springsteen
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Jah Wobble - 40 hilarious unedited minutes interrupted by a pest control officer
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Elvis, the Colonel & how unseen letters changed Peter Guralnick’s view of their partnership
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Are the Nineties the new Classic Rock? And whatever happened to comedy records?
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The Wedding Present turns 40, memories of John Peel & ‘the only time I ever pogo-ed’
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Bret McKenzie on Flight of the Conchords, Hollywood and writing songs for frogs and unicorns
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Del Amitri’s Justin Currie has faced every tough crowd imaginable. Lessons were learn
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Ozzy Osbourne, Jaws, the lost world of mix tapes & the movies’ most chilling moment
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The late Nick Drake’s manager on the nine-year project “The Making Of Five Leaves Left”
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Suzi Quatro - how Dad, Elvis and Mickie Most transformed my life
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New Nick Drake tapes, Bob Marley’s masterpiece and the Coldplay ‘kiss-cam’.
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The story of David Ackles, who never recovered from putting out “the best album ever made”.
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Kevin Rowland, Oasis, Velvet Sundown – and do we want the truth or just a good story?
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John Otway – Micro-stardom, 5,000 gigs and how to capture a crowd in 20 seconds
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Peter Hook looks back at Joy Division, New Order and how not to be a DJ
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Live Aid remembered – from inside and out – on its 40th birthday
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Ian Anderson, Jethro Tull and 58 years of one-legged live performance
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Album sleeves the modern world would ban & the best song titles and opening lines
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Bobby Bluebell’s thriving third act, ‘80s Glasgow and the gift that keeps on giving
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Dubmaster Dennis Bovell has had 50 fun-filled years making magical records
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Rick Wakeman once signed a contract guaranteeing he’d wear “at least one cape onstage”
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10cc’s I’m Not In Love is still weird & wonderful! - plus Kneecap & Carol Kaye
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When Peter Hooton, the Farm & Eric Cantona played Clash songs in an amphitheatre
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Carol Decker of T’Pau and the ocean-going world of the 80s package tour
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The magnificent Sly Stone & Brian Wilson and the curse of our expectations
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Why Oasis were God’s gift to the rock press and the story of two missing teeth
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Elkie Brooks once opened for the Beatles. A lot happened in the next 65 years …
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Why they MUST make the Cat Stevens movie + rock feuds, the best video & Beyoncé in a Stetson
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Stuart Maconie – every character in the Beatles’ story has a story of their own
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Inside the world of reissues with producer Rob Caiger
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Genuinely ‘iconic’ rock pictures, words we should ban and how Freddie Mercury still makes headlines
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Martha Wainwright - ‘never nervous, always ballsy’ and onstage from the age of eight
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Budgie of Siouxsie And The Banshees started out in nightclub cabaret acts, aged 13
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Books rock stars want you to read, sacked drummers and how Dylan spent his birthday
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Dylan Jones bangs the drum for 1975, an explosion of talent and creativity
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The great lost Beach Boys SMiLE album – David Leaf unravels rock’s Holy Grail
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The best songs written in seconds, Lennon’s legs and Springsteen’s chimes of freedom.
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Dennis Greaves, Nine Below Zero – old-school R&B, police and thieves and the agony of white clogs
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Peter Capaldi’s life in a teenage Glasgow punk band and a public apology to the Cocteau Twins
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Alan Parsons – from the rooftop of Savile Row to Pink Floyd, Steve Harley and some singing pigs
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Mom Rock v Dad Rock, the Oasis rumour mill and Kanye West’s devious dentist.
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Dennis McNally saw the Summer Of Love in London, New York and California
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The greatest duet, rock cameos in Miami Vice and the rebirth of Mississippi John Hurt
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Al Murray and James Holland talk the ending of the war in 1945 and the afterlife of The Beatles
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Derek Shulman – when Simon Dupree and Gentle Giant were “the darlings of the English Mafia”
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The entertaining fictions of Max Romeo and Robert Smith and tech that actually works!
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Moon Zappa remembers life with her father Frank. ‘Pagan absurdists’ aren’t great parents
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Daryl Hall - ‘60s soul session work, the right shoes and a barge trip with Bob Dylan
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Rock star pilots, sacking Zak Starkey and bold pioneers of the psychedelic moustache
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Dave Pegg, Fairport’s “longest-serving member” (fnarr!) looks back at hippie chaos and old heroes
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Withering reviews of famous albums, Jaws versus Jeeves and the genius of Blondie’s Clem Burke
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Why Sparks’ Russell Mael preferred British acts to the ‘faux honesty’ of Laurel Canyon
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Seven ‘lost’ Springsteen albums, romance in sitcoms and the age of spectacle
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Ed Tudor Pole – singer, actor, serial showman – saw the pop and punk wars as ‘pure theatre’.
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AI’s Word In Your Ear theme tune (!!), the four stages of showbiz & taking kids to concerts
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Hearing 45 year-old records you’d never played & the least likely-looking person to become a rock star
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What Kate Mossman discovered about rock’s elder statesmen
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How John Harris and his son found a life-changing connection through music
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Mike Rutherford looks back at 60 years onstage and the art of cheap rock theatre
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Mike Scott of the Waterboys remembers the shows that inspired him
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The lost world of teenage love songs – and the best pop song ever written!
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Nik Kershaw remembers Live Aid, snoods, fingerless gloves & a sudden male-female audience shift
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Gang Of Four’s Jon King now sees the comedy in their endless self-sabotage
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Has politics eaten entertainment? What’s ‘perfect sound’? Plus Brian James & how to make a speech
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Film-maker Denny Tedesco on dad’s old band The Wrecking Crew and new doc “Immediate Family”
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Lennon & McCartney seen in a fresh, stirring and original new light by Ian Leslie
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The threat of AI, the appeal of Gene Hackman & the filthy glamour of Exile On Main St
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Graham Fellows, “the comedy of the underdog” and inventing John Shuttleworth and Jilted John
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Eternally cool rock stars, the Bond takeover and remembering Rick Buckler
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Justin Hayward – ‘60s package tours, lost profits & the highpoint of the Moody Blues
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Your guided tour of David Bowie’s London with Paul Gorman’s stories about its key locations
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Eddi Reader - busking, singing radio jingles and “men you put on the shoulder-pads for”
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Why all great pop stars are cartoons, Bowie doing mime and people whose voices we’ve never heard
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Bob Marley in London, Chappell Roan’s outburst & records that sound best in the dark
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The rise of David Bowie and the Spiders From Mars through the eyes of Woody Woodmansey
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