In the new Word In Your Ear podcast Alex Gold explains the international language of Beatles impersonators and I tell him the story of the Allman Brothers Band. At your ironmonger now.

Bringing together two of the few remaining copies of The Wailers' 'Catch A Fire' in original livery for new Word In Your Ear podcast. With your supplier now.

Proudest moment in short stint as daytime presenter on GLR was coming out of third interest rate rise on Black Wednesday 1992 with that record.

Mark Ellen and I have given Neil Tennant his Smash Hits exit interview forty years late. ⁦Word In Your Ear⁩ podcast coming soon.

Been listening to this chap since he was nineteen and I was seventeen and have never once been disappointed.

We need to talk about Brexit | FT Film ft.com/video/5120d2fe… via Financial Times

When I was a teenager I only spoke candidly to other teenagers. Now I’m a grandparent I only speak candidly to other grandparents.

One day the prices people are paying for vinyl will look as ridiculous as this.

Here’s somebody listening to a record what I compiled. Hooray!

Lost patience with Apple TV “Manhunt” five mins from the end on grounds of it being not so much dark as invisible.

In the new ⁦Word In Your Ear⁩ podcast we’ve been reminiscing about the days when album covers were like The World Of Interiors. Usual outlets.

The frustrating thing to me about the quote from this article is that the columnist knows, and the Conservatives know, and Labour knows, that Brexit was an awful economic and geopolitical error. This was obvious in my view in 2016 and it’s ten times more obvious now, for the…

Hollywood can’t do these stories of sixty years ago. It simply doesn’t have the weeds.

At @wiyelondon we talked about how Steve Harley's enduring hit first happened. youtu.be/obCEeKCPJFo?si… via YouTube

PRs are hired to get launch publicity for new podcasts; the truth is they’re all way better six shows in. Witness For The Love Of Rugby emerging as best of the rugby pods.

Rugby’s broken out.

I’d prefer my grandchildren not to grow up to see a video of me slashing a painting.

15 minutes into Ridley Scott’s Napoleon, I am seized by a powerful urge to watch Master and Commander.

Roger Daltrey, 80 today, goes from rock god to Frank Spencer on losing hold of the microphone lead during a show. youtu.be/Mv7DLqerre4?si…

Give it a rest.

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