
About this episode
Spinning sides at the conversational disco to see what fills the dancefloor, which this week includes …
… Jerry Garcia had seven fingers! Brian Jones had seven children! Morrissey worked for the Inland Revenue!
… the most terrifying villain in the history of cinema
... is pop music becoming inbred?
… when Neil Sedaka made records with 10cc (and Abba)
… Happy? Get Lucky? Crazy In Love? What was the last hit single the whole world seemed to be singing?
… Noddy Holder, Kim Wilde, Robert Wyatt, Gary Numan: what makes you a National Treasure?
… rock and roll puns and double-entendres
… “drawn from the national conversation”: the divine Englishness of the Pet Shop Boys
… the Gilded Palace of Sin, In The Court of the Crimson King and other records we bought because of the title
… and acts wiped out by the Beatles “like corn before the sickle”.
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