# A History of Rock Music in 500 Songs

A podcast by Andrew Hickey. Andrew Hickey presents a history of rock music from 1938 to 1999, looking at five hundred songs that shaped the genre.

Feed: https://500songs.com/feed/podcast/a-history-of-rock-music-in-500-songs/

## Latest episodes

- [Song 186: “Frownland” by Captain Beefheart and His Magic Band](https://invisiblenetwork.ai/podcast/1437402802/2abb32548848) (2026-09-03, 161 min): audio https://500songs.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/09/186-frownland.mp3
- [Song 185: “Peaches En Regalia” by Frank Zappa](https://invisiblenetwork.ai/podcast/1437402802/d233c737360f) (2026-07-21, 159 min): audio https://500songs.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/07/185-peaches-en-regaliaFIX.mp3
- [Teaser Trailer: It’s a Superpower??](https://invisiblenetwork.ai/podcast/1437402802/a08f030b333e) (2026-07-21, 3 min): audio https://500songs.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/07/Tism-Trailer-500-Songs-Version.mp3
- [Song 184: “The Captain’s Fat Theresa Shoes” by the GTOs](https://invisiblenetwork.ai/podcast/1437402802/89f576dc8223) (2026-07-21, 91 min): audio https://500songs.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/07/184-the-captains-fat-theresa-shoes.mp3
- [Song 183: “Pinball Wizard” by the Who, Part 2: “His Disciples Lead Him In”](https://invisiblenetwork.ai/podcast/1437402802/dd11dbdbba51) (2026-03-22, 125 min): audio https://500songs.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/03/183b-pinball-wizard.mp3
- [Song 183: “Pinball Wizard” by the Who, part 1: Always Playing Clean](https://invisiblenetwork.ai/podcast/1437402802/518e4a027a99) (2026-02-12, 105 min): audio https://500songs.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/02/183a-pinball-wizard.mp3
- [Song 182: “Many Rivers to Cross” by Jimmy Cliff](https://invisiblenetwork.ai/podcast/1437402802/10c1c319db44) (2025-12-18, 111 min): audio https://500songs.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/12/182-many-rivers-to-cross.mp3
- [Song 181: “Proud Mary” by Creedence Clearwater Revival](https://invisiblenetwork.ai/podcast/1437402802/c7b82658eade) (2025-11-03, 0 min): audio https://500songs.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/11/181-Proud-Mary.mp3
- [Song 180: “Dazed and Confused” by Led Zeppelin, Part Two — “Inspiration is What You Are to Me”](https://invisiblenetwork.ai/podcast/1437402802/95546429333d) (2025-09-30, 0 min): audio https://500songs.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/09/180b-dazed-and-confused.mp3
- [Song 180: “Dazed and Confused” by Led Zeppelin, Part One, The Song Remains the Same](https://invisiblenetwork.ai/podcast/1437402802/9d4f28c57723) (2025-08-24, 0 min): audio https://500songs.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/08/180a-dazed-and-confused.mp3
- [PLEDGE WEEK: “Light Flight” by Pentangle](https://invisiblenetwork.ai/podcast/1437402802/8211405dc684) (2025-07-26, 0 min): audio https://500songs.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/07/PLEDGE-WEEK-2025-PatreonPentangle.mp3
- [PLEDGE WEEK: “Fruit Tree” by Nick Drake](https://invisiblenetwork.ai/podcast/1437402802/bc026a6cfddf) (2025-07-25, 0 min): audio https://500songs.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/07/PLEDGE-WEEK-2025-PatreonDrake.mp3
- [PLEDGE WEEK: “Living in the Past” by Jethro Tull](https://invisiblenetwork.ai/podcast/1437402802/dc33ae0bb62e) (2025-07-24, 0 min): audio https://500songs.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/07/PLEDGE-WEEK-2025-PatreonJethroTullcorrected.mp3
- [PLEDGE WEEK: “Pictures of Matchstick Men” by The Status Quo](https://invisiblenetwork.ai/podcast/1437402802/feab2340397b) (2025-07-23, 0 min): audio https://500songs.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/07/PLEDGE-WEEK-2025-PatreonQuo.mp3
- [PLEDGE WEEK: “La conferencia secreta del Toto’s Bar” by Los Shakers](https://invisiblenetwork.ai/podcast/1437402802/11c55bacf9c7) (2025-07-22, 0 min): audio https://500songs.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/07/PLEDGE-WEEK-2025-PatreonShakers.mp3
- [Announcing Pledge Week 2025](https://invisiblenetwork.ai/podcast/1437402802/c0d0a1083fda) (2025-07-22, 0 min): audio https://500songs.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/07/pledgeweek2025.mp3
- [Song 179: “Kick Out the Jams” by the MC5 (Public Clean Version)](https://invisiblenetwork.ai/podcast/1437402802/7972b37f7a4c) (2025-07-18, 0 min): audio https://500songs.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/07/179-kick-out-the-jams-CLEAN.mp3
- [Song 178: “Who Knows Where the Time Goes?” by Fairport Convention, Part Two: “I Have no Thought of Time”](https://invisiblenetwork.ai/podcast/1437402802/ead512c6afb4) (2025-06-23, 0 min): audio https://500songs.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/06/178b-who-knows-where-the-time-goes-fix.mp3
- [Song 178: “Who Knows Where The Time Goes?” by Fairport Convention, Part One, Going Electric](https://invisiblenetwork.ai/podcast/1437402802/6a71557758f5) (2025-05-16, 0 min): audio https://500songs.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/05/178a-who-knows-where-the-time-goes.mp3
- [Song 177: “Never Learn Not to Love” by the Beach Boys, Part 4: “Sometimes I Have A Great Notion”](https://invisiblenetwork.ai/podcast/1437402802/98324128ee88) (2025-03-22, 0 min): audio https://500songs.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/03/177d-never-learn-not-to-love.mp3
- [Song 177: “Never Learn Not to Love” by the Beach Boys, Part 3: “Mister, Can You Give Me Some Direction?”](https://invisiblenetwork.ai/podcast/1437402802/fd0f4b954c5d) (2025-01-31, 0 min): audio https://500songs.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/01/177c-never-learn-not-to-love.mp3
- [Song 177: “Never Learn Not to Love” by the Beach Boys, Part Two — “Is it True What They Say About Dixie?”](https://invisiblenetwork.ai/podcast/1437402802/e754535eb87b) (2024-12-16, 0 min): audio https://500songs.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/12/177b-never-learn-not-to-love.mp3
- [Next Episode Coming Soon](https://invisiblenetwork.ai/podcast/1437402802/a432032fe695) (2024-12-10, 0 min): audio https://500songs.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/12/explanation2.mp3
- [Song 177: “Never Learn Not to Love” by the Beach Boys, Part One, Old Folks at Home](https://invisiblenetwork.ai/podcast/1437402802/cb689014a195) (2024-11-19, 0 min): audio https://500songs.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/11/177a-never-learn-not-to-love.mp3
- [Song 176, “Sympathy for the Devil” by the Rolling Stones, part 4: “Who Breaks a Butterfly?””](https://invisiblenetwork.ai/podcast/1437402802/4b63a4d9cc0a) (2024-10-17, 0 min): audio https://500songs.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/10/Episode-176d-sympathy-for-the-devil-fixed.mp3
- [Song 176, “Sympathy for the Devil” by the Rolling Stones, part 3: “Every Cop is a Criminal and All the Sinners Saints”](https://invisiblenetwork.ai/podcast/1437402802/60ff10c04406) (2024-09-22, 0 min): audio https://500songs.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/09/176c-sympathy-for-the-devil.mp3
- [Song 176: “Sympathy for the Devil” by the Rolling Stones, part 2: Traps for Troubadours](https://invisiblenetwork.ai/podcast/1437402802/a22cd948dee9) (2024-08-19, 0 min): audio https://500songs.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/08/176b-sympathy-for-the-devil.mp3
- [Song 176: “Sympathy for the Devil” by the Rolling Stones, Part One: A Man of Wealth and Taste](https://invisiblenetwork.ai/podcast/1437402802/de3f6eb6d157) (2024-08-01, 0 min): audio https://500songs.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/08/176a-sympathy-for-the-devil.mp3
- [PLEDGE WEEK: “Dark End of the Street” by James Carr](https://invisiblenetwork.ai/podcast/1437402802/31342965e4cf) (2024-07-13, 0 min): audio https://500songs.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/07/PLEDGEWEEK2024PatreonJamesCarr.mp3
- [PLEDGE WEEK: “I Love You” by People](https://invisiblenetwork.ai/podcast/1437402802/3d79485b3c9c) (2024-07-12, 0 min): audio https://500songs.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/07/PLEDGEWEEK2024Patreon-People-I-Love-You.mp3
- [PLEDGE WEEK: “Son of a Preacher Man” by Dusty Springfield](https://invisiblenetwork.ai/podcast/1437402802/dd57dae2b0aa) (2024-07-11, 0 min): audio https://500songs.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/07/PLEDGEWEEK2024PatreonDusty.mp3
- [PLEDGE WEEK: “My World Fell Down” by Sagittarius](https://invisiblenetwork.ai/podcast/1437402802/a510c76b528e) (2024-07-10, 0 min): audio https://500songs.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/07/PLEDGEWEEK2024PatreonSagittarius.mp3
- [PLEDGE WEEK: “A Whiter Shade of Pale” by Procol Harum](https://invisiblenetwork.ai/podcast/1437402802/5d19547cb1c1) (2024-07-09, 0 min): audio https://500songs.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/07/PLEDGEWEEK2024PatProcol.mp3
- [ANNOUNCEMENT: Pledge Week 2024](https://invisiblenetwork.ai/podcast/1437402802/709e60805ab3) (2024-07-08, 0 min): audio https://500songs.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/07/pledgeweek2024.mp3
- [Song 175: “Everyday People” by Sly and the Family Stone Part 2, “My Own Beliefs Are In My Song”](https://invisiblenetwork.ai/podcast/1437402802/f7d5ecd06803) (2024-07-02, 0 min): audio https://500songs.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/07/Episode-175b-everyday-people.mp3
- [Song 175: “Everyday People” by Sly and the Family Stone Part 1 Different Strokes For Different Folks](https://invisiblenetwork.ai/podcast/1437402802/998009499367) (2024-06-13, 0 min): audio https://500songs.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/06/175a-everyday-people.mp3
- [Song 174B: “I Heard it Through the Grapevine” Part Two, “It Takes Two”](https://invisiblenetwork.ai/podcast/1437402802/0ebf24fb5e8d) (2024-05-24, 0 min): audio https://500songs.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/05/174b-i-heard-it-through-the-grapevine.mp3
- [Song 174A: “I Heard it Through the Grapevine” Part One, “If At First You Don’t Succeed…”](https://invisiblenetwork.ai/podcast/1437402802/37a4c773e07f) (2024-05-07, 0 min): audio https://500songs.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/05/174a-i-heard-it-through-the-grapevine.mp3
- [An Alert: Someone Plagiarising Me](https://invisiblenetwork.ai/podcast/1437402802/128fc8d022e4) (2024-05-03, 0 min): audio https://500songs.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/05/warning.mp3
- [Song 173: “All Along the Watchtower” Part Two, The Hour is Getting Late](https://invisiblenetwork.ai/podcast/1437402802/d660b550d7ac) (2024-04-14, 0 min): audio https://500songs.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/04/173b-all-along-the-watchtower-part-twoED.mp3
- [Song 173: “All Along the Watchtower”, Part One: “He’s Not the Messiah”](https://invisiblenetwork.ai/podcast/1437402802/5c10a1394157) (2024-03-25, 0 min): audio https://500songs.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/03/173a-all-along-the-watchtower-part-one.mp3
- [Song 172, Hickory Wind by the Byrds: Part 4, Hour of Darkness](https://invisiblenetwork.ai/podcast/1437402802/e0f38aa1b9aa) (2024-03-01, 0 min): audio https://500songs.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/03/172d-hickory-wind-part-four.mp3
- [Song 172, Hickory Wind by the Byrds: Part 3, The Parsons Tale](https://invisiblenetwork.ai/podcast/1437402802/c278c62fea7e) (2024-02-16, 0 min): audio https://500songs.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/02/172c-hickory-wind-part-three.mp3
- [Song 172, “Hickory Wind” by the Byrds: Part Two, Of Submarines and Second Generations](https://invisiblenetwork.ai/podcast/1437402802/9e4d7f054369) (2024-02-01, 0 min): audio https://500songs.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/02/172b-hickory-wind-part-two-redone.mp3
- [Song 172, “Hickory Wind” by the Byrds: Part One, Ushering in a New Dimension](https://invisiblenetwork.ai/podcast/1437402802/d0cf69046f2b) (2024-01-17, 0 min): audio https://500songs.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/01/172-hickory-wind-part-one.mp3
- [Announcement Regarding Schedule](https://invisiblenetwork.ai/podcast/1437402802/237244d5429e) (2024-01-17, 0 min): audio https://500songs.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/01/announcement.mp3
- [Episode 171: “Hey Jude” by the Beatles](https://invisiblenetwork.ai/podcast/1437402802/b78cf73e82c7) (2023-12-17, 0 min): audio https://500songs.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/12/171-Hey-Jude.mp3
- [Episode 170: “Astral Weeks” by Van Morrison](https://invisiblenetwork.ai/podcast/1437402802/e469d53b40b5) (2023-11-21, 0 min): audio https://500songs.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/11/Episode-170-Astral-Weeks.mp3
- [Episode 169: “Piece of My Heart” by Big Brother and the Holding Company](https://invisiblenetwork.ai/podcast/1437402802/33bc352f81a8) (2023-10-30, 0 min): audio https://500songs.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/10/episode-169-piece-of-my-heart.mp3
- [Episode 168: “I Say a Little Prayer” by Aretha Franklin](https://invisiblenetwork.ai/podcast/1437402802/6826f3ee19e1) (2023-09-28, 0 min): audio https://500songs.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/09/episode-168-i-say-a-little-prayer.mp3

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