How a nine-year-old boy kick-started RocknRoll (and other stories)

Published: May 9, 2023, 12:16 p.m.

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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 \\u2026.

 

\\u2026 the greatest singer of sad songs we\\u2019ve ever heard.

 

\\u2026 the extraordinary tale of the B-side of \\u201813 Women And Only One Man\\u2019.

 

\\u2026 songs you couldn\\u2019t record these days.

 

\\u2026 Rufus Wainwright\\u2019s re-recording of Neil Young\\u2019s Harvest \\u2013 but CAN modern technology possibly make it sound any better?

 

\\u2026 Noel Coward in the Italian Job.

 

 ... the mystifying UK pop charts at the time of the last Coronation.

 

\\u2026 old records we\\u2019ve re-discovered: this week, Bonnie Raitt\\u2019s magnificent Give It Up (and especially Love Has No Pride).

 

\\u2026 John Prine\\u2019s Angel From Montgomery.

 

\\u2026 Gordon Lightfoot: why Dylan adored him and the tale of The Wreck Of The Edmund Fitzgerald.

 

\\u2026 the return of Frankie Goes To Hollywood and the excellent current occupation of Brian \\u2018Nasher\\u2019 Nash.


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