There are only three Rock National Treasures – and we name them!
Episode Ep 877 49 min 25s

There are only three Rock National Treasures – and we name them!

From Word In Your Ear Mark Ellen, David Hepworth and Alex Gold

Our ‘big air’ manoeuvres on the rock and roll ski jump this week land the following tricks …

 

… why don’t we re-use old protest songs instead of writing new ones?

 

… “a temple of music and gothic lust:” would YOU buy Jim Steinman’s unsellable home?

 

… when Madness played on the Buck House roof

 

… Ptolomaic Terrascope? Aquarium Drunkard? Real and made-up music magazines

 

… “too complicated, not catchy, like a high-minded think-piece”: U2’s Days Of Ash EP

 

… when the Ramones invaded the London library

 

… Rod, Elton, Adele, Noel, Ed … do they cut it as National Treasures?

 

… “the best sport still works with the sound off”

 

… what links Steely Dan to American College Football?

 

… plus the Bishop of Ramsbury, Robyn’s “dream doner” and birthday guest Keith Adsley with a quiz about American college football walk-out music.


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