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This week’s penalty shoot-out of news sorts the surefire hits from the over-the-bar misses. That final score again …
… what Morrissey’s only gone and done now
… when your logo’s worth than your songs
… Taylor Swift’s wedding and how Sly Stone got there first
… do musicians care about awards?
… Divine Comedy, Jonathan Richman, Fountains of Wayne, Zappa: why are ‘humorous’ records so divisive?
… happy 200th birthday Stephen Foster, the man who invented the pop song!
… and cover versions of his songs you’ll know - Hard Times Come Again No More (Dylan, Springsteen, Emmylou Harris), Beautiful Dreamer (the Beatles), My Old Kentucky Home (Randy Newman), Oh Susannah (James Taylor), Camptown Races and many more
… why comic actors are funnier on TV than in films
… the delicious melancholy of songs about going home
… when did musicians ‘go pro’? Did the Clash or the Faces consider themselves ‘professionals’?
… Oasis, New Order, the Hollies, Herman’s Hermits, Corrie, Man City/Man U, the Smiths: why is Manchester Feud Central?
… plus Margot, Jerry & the take-away curry, and birthday guest Guy Constant.
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The blistering heat of 1976 burnt various things onto the memory – standpipes, strikes, Entebbe, ‘Confessions’ movies, Jeremy Thorpe – but most of all the records that became its soundtrack, some of them revolutionary, others begging for extinction. John L Williams captures the moment in ‘Heatwave: the Summer of 1976, Britain at Boiling Point’ and a paints of picture of a country on the brink of a vast pop-cultural shift. We talk to him here about …
… violence at gigs and football and on Derek & Clive albums
… dumb people pretending to be clever (prog rock) and clever people pretending to be dumb (Ramones)
… the rise of Joan Armatrading in the days before ‘identity’ marketing
… how ‘funny’ t-shirts were the memes of their day
… when Tom Robinson saw the future in Scarborough
… “mainstream culture gave you things to both love and hate”
... how Rock Follies featured an imaginary Blitz Club where people danced in military uniforms
… Andy Summers (with Kevin Ayers) and Stewart Copeland (Curved Air) on the same bill a year before the Police
… why anyone with a Sensational Alex Harvey Band scarf got a wide berth
… Time Out’s headline: "It's the Buzz, Cock!"
… Tom Waits, aged 25, unconvincing hobo-hipster
… and Kate & Anna McGarrigle, Emmanuelle and the lowest point of the Radio One Roadshow.
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Nige Tassell fell in love with the literary allusions of Prefab Sprout when at school and his new book ‘Truly Gifted Kids’ tells their unique and inscrutable story – and involves some delightfully off-road “deerstalker” investigation. You’ll find self-sabotage, square pegs in round holes, the eternal pressure to have hits, and a devoted portrait of ringmaster Paddy McAloon that leaves you convinced there’s never been anyone quite like him before or since. This sparks off in a million directions, these among them …
… the lure of bands who'd clearly been to the library and were unlikely to have a huge hit
... Paddy’s stoic defence of their name
… his distaste for “diary songwriting” of Joni Mitchell and Leonard Cohen
… Jesse James, Elvis, Hey Manhattan: the obsession with the romance of America
… the archive of unrecorded songs (one box labelled ‘For Rod Stewart’)
… how the success of The King Of Rock ‘N’ Roll came to haunt them
… the inconceivable moment they appeared on the National Lottery with Bob Monkhouse and Mystic Meg
… pop tribalism on the school bus
… the dreadful circumstance that lead to I Trawl the Megahertz
… Paddy’s visual transformation from tousled pop star to hermetic semi-reclusive Gandalf
… and the fate of the Steve McQueen motorbike.
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Tapping the barometer of news to see what’s blistering or stormy, which this week includes …
… “The Man can’t bust our music!”: the crimes and misdemeanours of Clive Davis
… the single biggest change in our lifetimes
... when did musicians become ‘artists’?
… Johnny Marr’s guitar habit
… unlimited cash and what we’d spend it on
… Madonna smoking at Paris Fashion Week hoping someone would try to stop her
… why Dave doesn’t own any Arista records
… which five Paul Simon songs became film titles?
… a Prime Minister who loves ‘Dragon New Warm Mountain I Believe In You’ by Big Thief!
… 56 year-old takes annual Dark Side of the Moon test: “and I still don’t like it!”
… are there more registered songwriters or lorry drivers?
Plus the biopic boom and birthday guest Andrew Stocks has a senior moment.
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Seven hundred fans have contributed to ‘Gary Numan: A People’s History’, a lavishly published compendium of memories of discovering, hearing and watching him over the 50 years he’s been making music. As you might imagine, he’s immensely touched, not least because – in this honest and extremely modest conversation – he feels his roller-coaster career was down to “perseverance not God-given talent” and that if he hadn’t come along, that devotional space in his fans’ lives would have been filled by someone else. He talks to us here from his home in Los Angeles and touches on …
… the extent of what music can mean to people
… how careers pan out – “huge highs then you fall off a cliff for a while”
… ‘I made though perseverance more than God-given talent’
… meetings with upstarts and superstars
… why he doesn’t listen to new music
… ‘Don’t call me, the Gothfather!’
… the press he got in the early ‘80s “that made fans hide their Gary Numan albums”
… how hip-hop and Afrika Bambaataa absorbed his music
… ‘I’m not unique, I simply supply a service”
... and having your Gary Numan tattoo sketched for you … by Gary Numan!
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David Gray went through the roof with his White Ladder album in 2000 and he’s toured and recorded ever since, ending this summer’s loop at Latitude. He talks to us here about the rigours of seeing bands when you lived in rural Wales and the hilarious, hard-won lessons of the first gigs he played himself and every possible shade of crowd reaction. It’s an absolute whirlwind from start to finish and features ...
... playing weddings, clubs, festivals and a Welsh village regatta
… the role of music in the construction of your character
… the turning point: “I arrived onstage to more applause than I’d ever had when leaving”
… the time gave Morrissey his string of beads
… the emotional architecture of live performance and how Elvis programmed his shows
… vivid memories of seeing the Cult (“bloody nose”), the Mission (“headbutted”) and the Stranglers (“we left terrified”)
… running from stage to stage at Glastonbury in ‘86 and the insular genius of the Cure
… his Liverpool punk band in their perishing “Joycean” flat
… the unbeatable sound of a crowd singing one of your songs
… Nick Drake’s frail sensibility and the value of growing a hard skin.
David Gray tickets here: davidgray.com
David Gray’s new album Nightjar, a companion to his 2005 No.1 record Life in Slow Motion, is out now via Bella Figura.
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Digging deep in the icebox of news to choose the following lightly chilled refreshments …
… 500 Miles, Wonderwall, Yes Sir I Can Boogie(?): what does it take to be a football anthem?
… Gorillaz brilliant reinvention of the “guest appearance”
… Jerry Dammers' father was the Dean of Bristol Cathedral? Siouxsie’s dad milked venom from snakes?
… Rod Stewart’s “laryngitis”- aka being on a private jet to watch Scotland play in Boston!
… how they’re celebrating Syd Barrett’s 80th
… the godawfullest album title in the entire history of popular music
… England 2 Colombia 0: Kirsty MacColl’s immaculate sense of melancholy
… Faux Fighters, Proxy Music, By Jovi: tribute bands aren’t lesser versions of the band you like but great versions of the songs you like
… the worst Boz Scaggs gig followed by the best
… teen fizz to chin-stroking introspection: the link between George Michael and the Beach Boys
… “Londoners like to feel they’re impossible to impress”
… plus 500 Hartlepool fans dressed as Smurfs and birthday guest Blaine Allan.
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Peter Frampton, for goodness sake! Part of our lives at Word In Your Ear since we were teenagers. Played guitar on national telly when he was 14. Joined the Herd at 16 and Humble Pie two years later. Had the biggest-selling album in American history in 1976 and now releasing his first new record in 16 years. From his home in Nashville, he looks back here – with great modesty, humour and affection - at how he adjusted to such mountainous success and to “when it all came crashing down” while throwing in a winning impression of George Harrison. This too …
… the Herd pursued by screaming girls across Streatham Ice Rink
… when “the Face of 1968” (Frampton) joined “the Face of 1967” (Marriott)
… recording with George, Ringo, Billy Preston, Steve Stills and Phil Spector (aged 20) - “where the hell am I and how did I get here?”
… “I’d fallen off the radar and Bowie gave me the biggest gift anyone could give me”
… the petrifying success of Frampton Comes Alive! - “I felt I’d be like a Rubik’s Cube, here today, gone tomorrow”
… the Scout Club gig (aged 12) that lit the fuse and playing Ready Steady Go! when he was 14 (same show as the Stones)
… when his father met Mick Jagger
… making the doomed Sgt Pepper film with the Bee Gees
… working with Sheryl Crow who’d had a poster of him when she was 14
… and revisiting his childhood home in Beckenham.
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‘Graceland’ was an almighty gamble for Paul Simon, a costly, high-risk departure from the music he’d been making and a complex international venture. And a game-changing, worldwide triumph. When Ashley Kahn taught a course about it at New York University, Simon turned up to contribute. His book ‘Days Of Miracle And Wonder’ tells the story of what inspired the album, the way it was recorded and the global reaction when it arrived in 1986. We talk to him here about …
… the bootleg cassette of township jive that inspired the Graceland project
… fraying relations with Art Garfunkel and Carrie Fisher
... his habit of playing unfinished tracks to people – David Byrne, Philip Glass, Neil Diamond – while singing the vocal into their ear
… the extraordinary way he apologised for the failure of One Trick Pony
… how Bakithi Kumalo’s bass solo on You Can Call Me Al is a palindrome – “first half forwards, second half reversed!”
… the advice Quincy Jones gave him about South Africa’s cultural boycott
… the key role of Roy Halee, engineer and long-time creative collaborator
... the Johannesburg sessions that “started with rhythm and worked backwards”
… Kind Of Blue, A Love Supreme, other albums that merit a book to themselves
… the details you hear in the tracks’ last seconds
… and the Grammy telecast that cemented the album’s US success.
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Kate’s an old pal of ours from Word magazine who writes scintillating columns and profiles for the New Statesman and Observer. We loved her book ‘Men Of A Certain Age: My Encounters With Rock Royalty’ – just out in paperback! – where she relives her meetings with a variety of legends, eccentrics and old lags whose music she finds particularly compelling and wonders what they all have in common. This typically funny and colourful conversation stops off at …
… the attractive fallibility of rock stars past their peak
… a lifetime’s devotion to Paul Simon
… “Olivia Dean is the Carole King of her generation”
… the ridiculous expectations we heap on musicians’ creativity
… why Arts Criticism is under threat
… when the first record you buy (aged five) is the Chicken Song
… “One-Hit Wonders have achieved infinitely more than most of us”
… Ray Davies and his “eternal sense of apartness”
… why George Michael is under-appreciated and the time he found someone living under his floorboards
… the days when Jeff Beck modelled PVC jackets for Rave
… the genius of Pat Metheny’s Orchestrion
… and the new acts who’ll still be huge in ten years’ time.
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Amid much parping of vuvuzelas, the week’s news stories sprint onto the pitch. And these make it to the quarter-finals …
… Dua Lipa’s mega-wedding and its echoes of Mick & Bianca
… when did publicity turn into “perpetual planetary attention”?
… Chris Martin “curating” the World Cup Final half-time show
… if you can’t stand the noise, move out of Soho!
… watching Rufus Wainwright do Judy Garland
… when Madonna was troubled by helicopters
… JBs’s Dudley, Mr Pickwicks, the Band On The Wall: who imagined old rock venues would be celebrated by the V&A?
… “Keep music away from sport!”
… is Taylor Swift really getting married in Madison Square Garden?
… and the Nation Blue, the Green Falcons, the Golden Lilies: starry-eyed indie act or World Cup team nickname?
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Dave Balfe was a key player in late ‘70s Liverpool, joined Big In Japan and the Teardrop Explodes, co-founded Zoo Records and, later, Food who signed and launched Blur. It’s fascinating to hear how he’s adapted to promoting music now with his new band Late Transmissions. We talk to him here about the landmarks moments that mapped out his life, among them …
… growing up in the Wirral and its patchouli-scented record shops
… seeing Wings and Bowie’s Ziggy Stardust tour in Liverpool
… how it felt to be immortalised in Blur’s Country House
… what he learnt making AI pop videos
… when your teenage band “goes punk”
… breaking and entering Rumbelows in pursuit of a synthesiser
… the curious link between Blur and JD Salinger in the days “they were all Kurt Weill and discordant”
… the Runaways at Erics – “I wasn’t entirely there for the music”
… Big In Japan with Bill Drummond, Budgie, Ian Brodie and Jayne Casey
.. is AI like the arrival of synthesisers: “this is not proper music?”
… “the old gag, innovation is not pastiching bands that have already been pastiched”
… and Mark’s interview with him 47 years ago.
Lightning Never Strikes Twice video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QhV02AcvQQ0
The Heart Wants What It Wants video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yGvEWvS1ekk
I’m Done With London video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YmUnP4b4GjQ
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Star Ratings are now ubiquitous and inescapable and it’s not just music, films and books. Everything we encounter tends to be rated which colours our judgement before we try it. Choice can be paralyzing but do we read anymore or just count? Benji Wilson’s ‘Rate This Book: How Star Ratings Took Over the World’ traces their origin – back to 350 BC! – paints a picture of modern life and wonders here where we’re heading, along with …
… Aristotle’s 2,500 year-old system of star-rated animals
… how Michelin cooked up starred restaurants to get you to wear out your tyres
… can we spot fake reviews and the people who sell them?
… do we only tend to read one- and five-star reviews? And why writers hate the system
… the ingenious deceit of the Krays movie poster
… the value of reviews in a world where time and tickets costs are escalating
… “Star Ratings are the democratisation of criticism, the least-worst method”
… why a 2016 episode of Charlie Brooker’s Black Mirror now seems prophetic
… the “hidden hands” that manipulate the ratings system
… and mass Amazon ratings and the power of Mob Rule.
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Philip Norman has written books about the Beatles – and John, Paul and George - and now turns the spotlight on the man who launched them and the extreme personal and professional obstacles in the dramatic path of his short life, the man who built a shield around them but couldn't protect himself. We talk to him here about ‘Mr Moonlight: Brian Epstein and the Making of the Beatles’ with particular attention to …
… how he changed Britain’s image and was mortified to get no recognition for it
… the Beatle whose demands he was always fastest to execute
… the level of homophobia and anti-Semitism he had to absorb
… his reckless pursuits in the days when homosexuality could mean life imprisonment
… contract killers, blackmail, rigged roulette wheels and why the Krays said “it wasn’t us” when they heard he’d died
… the way he fashioned his own myth and airbrushed others who’d helped the Beatles succeed
… why McCartney’s 21st birthday party could have ended the band
… his genius (and fraudulence) as a salesman
… the double catastrophe of Brian’s US merchandising deal
… John, Aunt Mimi and “a story about the British class system”
… and the chaperone on George and Pattie’s first date.
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When the pedalo of perusal cruised the lagoon of news this week, it paused to inspect the following ...
… the particular magic of the late-night DJ
… a Get Well card to dear Bob Harris
… is Global Beatles Day a bridge too far?
… the exquisite Britishness of the Manics, the Fall and the Small Faces
… Cyprus Avenue, Soho, Asbury Park … the best places to visit to help you understand an artist who lived there
… how T.Rex and Roxy Music were “too fancy” for America
… Jagger, Screamin’ Jay Hawkins, Johann Sebastian Bach? Musicians with the most children
… All You Need Is Love – work of genius or “ropey old doggerel”?
Plus birthday guest Paul Thompson, Foghat and watching the One World global-cast on a black and white telly.
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Old friend of the podcast Lloyd Bradley wrote Bass Culture, the defining account of reggae, and he’s now turned his attention to funk, from its deepest roots and via the jazz, arts, TV, radio and pop culture that flavoured it. The main 10-year focus of ‘Funk Has Its Own Reward’ is from James Brown’s ‘Say It Loud - I’m Black and I’m Proud’ to Michael Jackson’s ‘Off The Wall’ but free your mind and all this will follow! …
… the importance of radio being “colourblind”
… Cab Calloway’s Jive Dictionary and the impact of DJs Martha Jean ‘the Queen’ Steinberg and Daddy-O Daylie
… how James Brown floor-tested his records and saved a fortune making them
… funk’s deep roots in America’s marching bands
… why jazz is funk’s closest relative and what it stole from white rock
… how the Family Stone’s Larry Graham made bass the place
… how solo singers gave way to the ‘funk gangs’
… how Richard Pryor gave mainstream America a window on a whole new world.
… the influence of Soul Train and Sesame Street (19-year-old Nile Rodgers on guitar!) in bringing funk to the masses
… George Clinton – “I can’t dance, can’t play, people tell me I can’t sing … but without me none of this would have happened!”
… plus the Chambers Brothers, Herbie Hancock, Funkadelic, Bootsy, Quincy Jones, Parliament and the greatest funk record ever made.
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Leo Sayer burst onto national telly in 1973 dressed as a Pierrot with the Show Must Go On launching a 50-year career in colourful company – songwriters, boxing legends, swindling managers, scurrilous socialites – and learning a great deal in the process. “Don’t underestimate the idiots!” is the hard-won advice. He’s touring in October and joins us here from Australia to look back at …
… how he and Linda Ronstadt escaped from Trump’s gruesome penthouse
… walking through Memphis dressed as a clown
… seeing Lonnie Donegan invent skiffle, Dylan at the Albert Hall and Bob Marley at the Lyceum from the side of the stage
… when Paul Kossoff asked him to audition for Free
… designing record sleeves for Marley, Roger Daltrey, Humble Pie and Quintessence
… “I’m the Forrest Gump of the music industry – nearly there!”
… “working with Adam Faith was like having Marlon Brando as your acting coach”
… the advice Paul McCartney gave him in 1973
… “Do you mind if I vomit in your shoe?”
… and a week in a training camp with Muhammad Ali.
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Chasing the shade and slapping the Sunscreen on this week’s overheated news, we pour a tinkling drink and reflect upon the following …
… British people in hot weath-ah!
… when rock stars you haven’t seen for 50 years pop up on Zoom
… Lennon’s tooth? Timberlake’s toast? Mooney’s school report? Weird things sold at auction
… Paul Horn playing in the Taj Mahal, Sonny Rollins on the Williamsburg Bridge, U2 in Slane Castle
… are new vinyl albums now ‘luxury goods’ and old ones ‘antiques’?
… where you can hear the Abbey Road building on the Dark Side of the Moon
… the cinematic records Daniel Lanois made in an abandoned movie theatre near Santa Barbara
… Summer In The City: the Lovin’ Spoonful’s road-drill and Regina Spektor’s cleavage
… Cat-calming music! Gym motivation! Stress-busting songs for Spurs fans on Judgement Day! The age of the prescriptive playlist
… the new dawn of instrumental music, “a public utility like turning on a tap”
… and the single Sinatra recorded for Maureen Starkey (only one copy made!).
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Daniel Lanois built a studio in his basement in Quebec and began producing local acts when a teenager. Through work with Brian Eno, he went on to record U2, Bob Dylan, Arcade Fire, Emmylou Harris and scores of others with a method that’s unique, cinematic and utterly extraordinary, a brand of sonic architecture that creates settings to accommodate the songs, often in exotic and stimulating places. And he's made nine albums of his own, the latest the magical instrumental suite ‘Belladonna Nocturne’ – “hear this and you may never go home again”. This rich and fascinating conversation includes …
… how the place you record affects the way you think
... producing Dylan and Willie Nelson in an abandoned Mexican cinema
… why the first record he bought was Wipe Out by the Surfaris
… the process of “printing sound” and his Music Minus One theory
… “Songs are doorways to another dimension”
… Eno’s working method: “he walked round the studio for 45 minutes ringing bells to map out the length of the album”
… drawing song sketches to stop everyone having to crowd round a laptop
… making the Unforgettable Fire with U2, “expanding Slane Castle ‘til there were little critters crawling out of the walls!”
… conjuring the tropical heat of Robbie Robertson’s Somewhere Down the Crazy River
… and what Hells’ Angels like to do to his music.
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Cathi Unsworth was a teenage Goth, enthralled as much by Joy Division and the Banshees as by the Brontës, Bram Stoker and Aubrey Beardsley. We loved her book ‘Season of the Witch’ and she’s since put together a soundtrack album, ‘Dressed In Black’, featuring the Goth divas she most admires and adores. And talks to us here about everything from murder ballads, the Industrial Revolution and Victorian literature to …
… John Peel, Siouxsie, Joy Division and her teenage Goth conversion among the “hedge-goths” and “field-goths” of rural Norfolk
… the phenomenal life, lyrics and mysterious disappearance of ‘Swamp-witch’ Bobbie Gentry
… has Goth eaten Punk?
… why BBC banned Billie Holiday’s “Gloomy Sunday”
… the ‘death discs’ of John Layton, the Shangri-Las and Twinkle
… how Cabaret and Julie Driscoll coloured Siouxsie and the Banshees
… Shirley Collins’ Death And The Lady – “now that’s what I call a pandemic!”
… did Liz Fraser speak fluent Faerie?
… Nico – “if I had a machine-gun I’d kill you all!”
… and how Juliette Gréco looked the devil in the face.
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