Posts Tagged ‘Chuck Berry’
Hail Hail Rock ‘n’ Roll!
I got emotional on BBC Radio Merseyside yesterday. Driving to work, I heard the news that Chuck Berry had died. I don’t know why it affected me so much, I didn’t know him and never met him. I did see him live once though and can only describe the experience as spiritual. In 1989, I […]
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Listen To The Banned
The British Broadcasting Corporation has banned a lot of songs over the years. I played some of them on the air on BBC Radio Merseyside recently in a feature called, “Listen To The Banned”. When I delved into it, I was surprised by what was forbidden, the reasons why and the songs they didn’t ban […]
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Tags: Banned songs, BBC, BBC Radio Merseyside, Blondie, Chuck Berry, Cutting Crew, Diana Ross, Dire Straits, John Lennon, Lola, Lou Reed, Mott The Hoople, Paul Simon, Squeeze, The Beatles, The Kinks, The Shangri-Las, The Stranglers
Old Time Rock n Roll
Today I found an old cassette from 1989. It was a live recording of the band I used to be in when we lived in New Zealand. I thought you might like to hear it. The band was called The Misfits. They’d been together for years and were the top band in Northland. I joined […]
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You never know where you’ll end up unless you just take a punt and start something. In 2011, I was working as Breakfast Show Host on BBC Wiltshire. One day on the show, I interviewed Gavin Jones, the Chief Executive of Swindon Borough Council. During my research, I discovered that he played lead guitar, so […]
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