Scala Radio daytime host, podcaster, author - crime thriller Knife Edge just out! - and old pal Simon Mayo on his 1980 copy of Smash Hits (a shoeing for Dexys in the Hepworth singles column), old '50s rock and roll, his '70s jukebox singles, the ugliest bands of all time, some doorplates nicked from Radio One, how to get Paul Simon to sign things, the shortest track ever recorded (all one second of it), the first album he bought (£2.17) and the Greatest Record Ever Made.

 

@simonmayo

 

Knife Edge and his other books …

https://www.amazon.co.uk/Books-Simon-Mayo/s?rh=n%3A266239%2Cp_27%3ASimon+Mayo

Simon’s Classical Radio for Modern Life show at Scala Radio …

https://planetradio.co.uk/scala-radio/

 

Greatest Hits Radio …

https://planetradio.co.uk/greatest-hits/

 

Kermode and Mayo’s Film Review on 5Live …

https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b00lvdrj

 

Books of the Year podcast …

https://podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/simon-mayos-books-of-the-year/id1402579687#episodeGuid=0b743633-2b85-4801-a8ea-211b1e50c6b4

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