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Mark Webber has been with Pulp for so long that his story and the group’s are almost the

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Singer-songwriter Michael Weston King picks tracks from across his career, a conversation bookended by his new solo album Nothing Can Hurt Me Anymore, shaped by the Southport attacks of summer 2024 and the loss of his granddaughter, Bebe. King recalls Fragile Friends, who put out singles through Probe Records in early 80s Liverpool. After their split he found country music and formed The Good Sons, touring and recording with Townes Van Zandt. Solo albums followed, including collaborations with Jackie Leven, and with Chris Hillman and Herb Pederson. With his wife Lou Dalgleish he formed My Darling Clementine, enjoying critical success, their most recent project recording Elvis Costello songs with Steve Nieve.

He wrote some of the greatest songs in American music, Dark End of the Street, Do Right Woman,

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Gary Talley was 19 when The Box Tops scored a number one hit with ‘The Letter.’ Alex Chilton

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In a market town seven miles south-east of Manchester, a recording studio opened above a shop in 1968

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Few works of musical theatre receive the recognition they deserve, and The Kibbo Kift is a prime example.

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Duncan Mackay spent the 1970s at the keyboard of British popular and progressive music, often invisibly, yet seldom

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Rat Scabies needs little introduction as the thunderous drummer of The Damned. His collaborator in One Thousand Motels,

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Jason Barnard is joined by music writer and artist Chris Wade to talk about The Kinks Are the

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Andrew Sandoval talks about THE KINKS – ALL DAY AND ALL OF THE NIGHT, The Day-By-Day Story Pt

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