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Top record producer talks music
A great interview today with one of the UK’s exceptional record producers. From the Beatle ‘White’ album through a fabulous c.v. that includes Roxy Music, Pulp, The Pretenders and nevermind those Sex Pistols. Actually we were filming Chris for our forthcoming Pistols programme due next year for the 40th anniversary of their first single. But we…
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Les Cousins folk club was the best London gig to play
In the Sixties there was a Folk Club in Greek Street where everybody wanted to play. It became the epicentre of the music world, it is where Paul Simon heard Scarborough Fair and claimed it as his own, Donovan did a big press piece about it, Sandy Jenny, Davy Gram, Bert Jansch the list of musicians is…
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That’ll Be The Day – Five Dozen Dodgy British Cover Versions
When deejay Kenny Everett started playing random dodgy oldies on Capital Radio back in 1977, in search of “The worst record ever made”, he struck a nerve. Every week he’d get a sack of mail from listeners, nominating increasingly bigger stinkers, and the whole shebang quickly mushroomed, taking on a life of its own. The…
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Chicago Calling – the roots of the British Blues & R&B boom
Received wisdom would have us believe that British Blues began in 1962, when Alexis Korner and Cyril Davies opened the celebrated Ealing Club. But things are never quite as straightforward as “received wisdom” would have us think and the roots of British R&B/Blues do, of course, go back a decade earlier. Moreover, although the opening…
