Two special occasions
Do please join me in wishing a very Happy Birthday to David today, and the same to Dark Side of the Moon, which, as hard as it may be to believe, was released 40 years ago this month, no doubt making...
View ArticleRap-rock
Stunning news at Spinner this week: producer Bob Ezrin suggested incorporating rap – yes, rap – on Pink Floyd’s 1987 A Momentary Lapse of Reason album. Wow. Aerosmith had, of course, teamed up with...
View ArticleElton John
It’s the Rocket Man’s birthday – a very Happy Birthday to him – so what better excuse do you need to play some of his songs tonight? There are only, oh, about 500 of them to choose from. Three...
View ArticleDark Side play
Have you heard about this new BBC radio play, Dark Side? To mark the 40th anniversary of Pink Floyd’s epic Dark Side of the Moon, playwright, Academy Award-winner and long-time Floyd fan, Sir Tom...
View ArticleRadio 2′s Favourite Albums
BBC Radio 2 listeners voted recently for their favourite albums of all-time. Here’s what they came up with… Actually, I should stop you right there and point out that the rules allowed only one album...
View ArticleRockumentaries
Hands up who saw the film about the Eagles – History of the Eagles: The Story of an American Band – just this week broadcast by the BBC. All four hours of it. If you’re in the UK, you can catch it on...
View ArticleDarkside
Sir Tom Stoppard’s hour-long radio play, Darkside – “a fantastical story about fear, philosophy and madness, woven together with the original music” – was broadcast on BBC Radio 2 yesterday. If, like...
View ArticleMusic gimmicks
Did you hear about the chocolate ‘vinyl’ this week? Relax, that’s not the start of a terrible joke. Wait until you snap open your Christmas crackers for those. There really was a chocolate record....
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