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Pet Shop Boys at 40, missing folk star found! & rock stars’ childhood bedrooms

· 52 min · Episode 858

Episode Pet Shop Boys at 40, missing folk star found! & rock stars’ childhood bedrooms

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‘January,’ a revered pop lyricist once wrote, ‘sick and tired you've been hanging on me.’ And if that’s the mood down your way, this might help crank up the heat, alighting as it does upon the following …

… Guns N’Roses and the imperial age of the pop video: director Nigel Dick remembers the $750,000 budget

… ‘lost elfin Scots superstar’: missing Incredible String Band member found after 40 years!

… comparing the original West End Girls to the re-made worldwide hit: “like a Top Of The Pops album doing the same song”

… the three ages of Bowie and why he’s becoming a religious cult

… gangster-wall-papering the Melody Maker office as an Ian Dury promo stunt

... the magic of stars’ childhood bedrooms

… “he’s got a tinfoil pal and a pedal bin”: Star Wars in a nutshell

… Tales of Brave Ulysses: psychedelia in under three minutes

…. and has there ever been a fictional band as convincing as McGwyer Mortimer?

Andy Miller on Licorice McKecknie here: https://www.patreon.com/posts/incredible-band-146577648

Nigel Dick’s wonderful video for God Only Knows here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cXhEkug1G-Q

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