Mick Wall

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Mick Wall episodes

February 25, 2022 Dead Rock Stars: JONNY Z
WARNING: The sound quality on this is not good. We had a microphone malfunction, then a brain damage situ, then an exhausted old fart saying balls, I need to buy better equipment. Meanwhile, however, this is me and Jonnie James Interrupter doing our best to huddle around one mic and say something decent about the late great Jonny Z, who died recently. I knew Jonny and his wife Marsha back when shit was real in the 80s (and beyond) and they were never less than wonderful, welcoming, honest, funny and true. I will return and do a proper pod/story about them one day. But for now, this is this.
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46 min
February 13, 2022 Music BOOKS Secrets & Lies
One for a rainy Sunday afternoon here at Rockingwall Farm. Me on my ownsome - No Interruptions - telling you the hideous truth behind the books that wouldn't know the hideous truth about music if it came and blew bubbles in their hideous faces. Then there are the books I write and have written. I'll give you the dirt on that too. Along with the light. Magic done well works both ways and I am now a Magus in the occult art.
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1 hr 21 min
February 02, 2022 Music Mags Secrets & Lies
Honest, always right, policed by the Good Guys, never prejudiced, always fair... none of these things exist on all the music mags you love. To demonstrate, we take Classic Rock - a magazine still close to my wallet-shaped heart - and dissect the latest cover story on Slash. 'Honest' Mick Wall, as Brian May always described him, and Jonny James Interruptor takes you on a ride with the hows, whys, and wtf. Funny, too. (Other music mags exist, apparently.)

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55 min
January 26, 2022 MICK WALL POD
Paying respects to the one and only Meat Loaf. The big friendly giant of rock who died last week. A life lived in epic cinemascope technicolour. Sometimes funny, often sad, a tragedy, a triumph, a true-life tale of emotional and physical mayhem. The monster to Jim Steinman's Dr Frankenstein. The Beast more full of Beauty than this cruel world ever knew.
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1 hr 3 min
January 20, 2022 MICK WALL POD E15
Yes, there are many. More than you think. Waaaaay more. Join me (Never Knowingly Boring) and Non-Boring (He Says) Jon Hotten for the lowdown (bring down?) on the worst offenderzzzzzzz...
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49 min
January 12, 2022 The MICK WALL Podcast
Jonny James Hotten - aka The Great Interruptor - joins Mick again for another fact-filled, deeply-researched, strong but sensitive deep-dive into those corners of the rock world other pods are simply too stoopid to know about. This time we ask the question: when is live no longer live but 'live'? Albums, concerts, DVDs, all 'polished' to within an inch of their hairless sphincters. Featuring Judas Priest, Thin Lizzy, Led Zeppelin, Guns N' Roses, Journey, Eagles, Whitesnake, Ozzy and any other rock star you could name.

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49 min
January 05, 2022 The MICK WALL Podcast E14
Mick welcomes back Harry 'Hard Man' Paterson to discuss that often uncomfortable, sometimes inspirational interface where rock and politics collide. From Dylan's protest to Clapton's cringe-fest and all points between, right, left or down a dark alley.
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51 min
December 30, 2021 MICK WALL Podcast E13
He's back and he's already interrupting. Yes, Jonny James Hotten returns to join Mick for a special look back at the year. No, not 2021, that was crap. We're talking 1987. Featuring Whitesnake, Guns N' Roses, Def Leppard, Metallica, Marillion, Bon Jovi, and Coco the Metal Pug!!
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53 min
December 20, 2021 The MICK WALL Podcast E12
Are albums still a thing? Or are they literally nothing? Where once they were conceptual in nature, art objects you could hold in your hands, now they are purely conceptual by nature, an idea not an artefact, notional, random-play. Does anyone care? Should they? Really? Join me and Jonny James Hotten as we journey manfully towards the end of side two (or three or four).
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35 min
December 14, 2021 The MICK WALL Podcast E11
Say hello nicely millions of fans to Harry Paterson. Harry authored two of the most daring political biographies this century in Don't Look Back In Anger (deep dive into the miner's strike which he and his family were part of) and Making Plans For Nigel (a comically bleak dissection of the full-fat fool Farage). Harry loves prog, especially Marillion, and writes for cats like Classic Rock, amongst others. An indispensable researcher on several of my books, most especially AC/DC, he also scares me once he gets going - and Harry was born getting going.
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1 hr 8 min

About Mick Wall

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Mick Wall is the best-known rock journalist in the world. Author of numerous best-selling books, including most famously: When Giants Walked The…