Why Van and Fairport make the perfect send-off, Robert Redford & the best-looking rock stars
· 48 min · Episode 816
Episode Why Van and Fairport make the perfect send-off, Robert Redford & the best-looking rock stars
On the menu at the rock and roll state banquet …
… Into the Mystic, Meet On The Ledge, In My Life, Tom Waits’ Take It With Me and other perfect songs for a last farewell
… the day we joined the world’s best band
… Robert Redford’s blinding handsomeness and the greatest moment – all three seconds of it – in Butch Cassidy And the Sundance Kid
… best-looking rock stars
… were the Shadows really a UK Eurovision entry?
… “very special guests” and the new age of the stadium rock “bring-on”
… how John Prine and Iris DeMent won the big door prize
… “the movie camera is the biggest lie-detector in the world”
… strange double bills of our time - the Foo Fighters and Rick Astley, Bo Diddley and the Clash
Plus Cary Grant smoking, watching Brad Pitt do ordinary things and birthday guest Steven Way on the subtle billing of support acts.
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