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Jeff Beck, The Mafia & The Business Of Rock & Roll with Simon Napier-Bell [Episode 123] Mar 30, 2023

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Simon Napier-Bell has been a leading figure in the music industry for over forty years. He’s managed the Yardbirds, Marc Bolan, Boney M, Asia, Ultravox, Japan, and Wham! He's also written film scores and co-wrote Dusty Springfield's hit, 'You Don't Have To Say You Love Me' (later recorded by Elvis Presley). In the eighties he masterminded taking Wham! to China, the first Western pop group ever to play there, and during the last two decades he has written four best-selling books on the music industry.
Simon is on the show to talk about three brand new books out: I'm Coming To Take You To Lunch: A Fantastic Tale of Boys, Booze and How Wham! Were Sold to China, Black Vinyl White Powder: The Real Story of the British Music Industry and The Business: A History of Popular Music from Sheet Music to Streaming. He also put out a book in late 2022 called Sour Mouth, Sweet Bottom: Lessons from a Dissolute Life.
We cover a lot of ground in this episode. Simon shares his memories of the late great Jeff Beck while the manager of the Yardbirds. He talks about the time Jimmy Page joined the band and how it led to the demise of The Yardbirds, plus a shocking first-hand account of the days the mafia ran the rock and roll business!
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"Queensborough Rock"/Stephen Shaiken [Episode 122] Mar 25, 2023

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Stephen Shaiken is here to talk about his rock and roll novel titled Queensborough Rock - the story of a young struggling rock and roll manager Jack Bernstein who lives in New York City.
It’s the year 1971. Jack doesn’t have a fancy office in Manhatten. He doesn’t have a flashy car and back stage passes. Instead, he works out of a basement apartment in working class Queens and drives around looking for hidden talent in a beat down Volvo. The talent he does steal gets stolen by Manhatten agents he calls “sharks”. To finance a demo tape for his top talent, he had to borrow from a loan shark and pawn a friend’s guitar. But the tape fails to land a deal and Jack is running out of chances. His last hope is an offer from a friendly Queens mobster. Jack is asked to manage his obnoxious nephew as best as he can. If he does, doors will open.
Stephen is a veteran writer of fiction, both short stories and novels and he says all of his work is based on his life, places he’s been and events he’s witnessed. So what was it that inspired this latest book Queensborough Rock? We’re about to find out!
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"Alice Cooper In The 80s"/Chris Sutton [Episode 121] Mar 22, 2023

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Chris Sutton is back on the podcast and this time he’s here to talk about his brand new book Alice Cooper in the 80s. It features all new interview material by Chris with 45 musicians and performers who worked with Alice over the decade. Many have never been interviewed before and they offer fascinating insight into working with Alice. A lot of new information coming out of this book and Chris includes some bombshells in the book. We’ll get to those and the rest of the rollercoaster ride that was the 80s for Alice Cooper!
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"Tom Petty’s Southern Accents (33 1/3)"/Michael Washburn [Episode 120] Mar 18, 2023

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Michael Washburn is our guest to talk about his book Tom Petty’s Southern Accents, part of the 33 1/3 series published by Bloomsbury Academic.
Tom Petty’s album Southern Accents was released on this month back in 1985. This is my personal favorite Petty album but this book isn’t one that praises everything about this particular Petty recording. It’s an honest assessment of the music, which Michael says is "a mix of classic rock songs mixed with nearly unlistenable 80s music".
Michael also gets into Petty’s use of the iconography of the American Confederacy, something Petty soon came to regret. But Michael also says Southern Accents is an important album for Petty; a pivot point in his career. I ask Michael about that and his examination of how the record both grew out of and reinforced enduring but flawed assumptions about Southern culture and the Lost Cause of the Confederacy. We also get into the songs recorded during the album sessions but left off, our favorite deep track from the album and more.
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"Lunacy: The Curious Phenomenon of Pink Floyd’s Dark Side of the Moon, 50 Years On"/John Kruth [Episode 119] Mar 16, 2023

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Author John Kruth is a returning guest to talk about his new book Lunacy: The Curious Phenomenon of Pink Floyd’s Dark Side of the Moon, 50 Years On. This month marks the 50th anniversary of Pink Floyd’s Dark Side of the Moon, one of the biggest selling albums of all time with over 40 millions copies sold to date. It topped Billboard and was on the charts for a total of over 700 weeks. Award-winning music biographer John Kruth delves into the making of this iconic record and considers why it continues to speak to generation after generation of music lovers around the world.
From avante-garde electronic to jazz to classical, it is all part of the music of Dark Side of the Moon and Kruth explores all of it and more in detail with behind-the-scenes reveals and unexpected insights. In-depth interviews with musicians, artists, DJs and many who have developed deeply personal relationships with this record including a passionate astrophysicist and a leading brain surgeon’s nurse who literally performed surgery while the track “Brain Damage” was being played. I ask John about all of this and more in the interview. This is one of my personal favorite albums. It’s easily my favorite Floyd album and arguably the most universally relatable album of all time. Let’s find out what John thinks!
Purchase a copy of Lunacy: The Curious Phenomenon of Pink Floyd’s Dark Side of the Moon, 50 Years On through Backbeat Books HERE
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Listen to John Kruth’s previous appearance on Booked On Rock - "Hold On World: The Lasting Impact of John Lennon & Yoko Ono’s Plastic Ono Band, Fifty Years On"/John Kruth [Episode 8] HERE
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"A Life In The Wings: My Sixty Year Love Affair with Rock and Roll: A Memoir"/David Spero [Episode 118] Mar 10, 2023

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David Spero was one of the pioneering DJs of the then new FM format in radio, a free form limited only by the DJ's imagination. He left radio in 1973 to become the manager for Michael Stanley and would eventually go on to manage the biggest names in rock including Joe Walsh, Cat Stevens, Dickey Betts, Jesse Colin Young, Kenny Loggins, Richie Furay, Simon Kirke and Paul Rodgers of Bad Co., and many others. He's friends to as many famous rockers including Jackson Browne, Mark Farner, Al Kooper, and Harry Nilsson.
David is on the podcast to talk about his book A Life in The Wings: My Sixty Year Love Affair with Rock and Roll: A Memoir. It’s written by David and K Adrian Zonneville. He shares many of the amazing stories from the book including how he helped to facilitate the Eagles massive 90s reunion and his brief but colorful tenure managing Vanilla Ice!
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The Dark Side Of Rock 'n' Roll w/ Chauncey Haworth, Lothar Tuppan & Mark Slade of Twisted Pulp Magazine [Ep. 117] Mar 05, 2023

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Twisted Pulp is a monthly magazine that brings back all that we loved in the classic pulp magazines like Mad, Cracked and CARtoons and comics like Eerie, Heavy Metal and The Haunt of Fear. Packed with articles, non-fiction stories, comics, photos and amazing art work. It’s dark, mysterious, it’s humorous…it’s an absolute must monthly read.
I ask Mark, Chauncey and Lothar about the history of the magazine, how it all got started, what are the magazines and comics they read growing up. We talk horror films, the history of the occult in rock and roll and the origins of the legendary crossroads story. Did Robert Johnson sell his soul to the devil in exchange for musical brilliance? It turns out, this story didn’t originate with Robert Johnson at all.
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Listen to a playlist of Mark Slade’s upcoming novel “Long Gone Dead” HERE
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"Lanegan"/Greg Prato on Singer Mark Lanegan (Screaming Trees, Queens of the Stone Age)[Episode 116] Mar 02, 2023

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Greg Prato is a returning guest to talk about his brand new book “Lanegan”. Mark Lanegan is among the greatest voices of grunge rock’s golden era. His unmistakable and instantly recognizable vocals can be heard on classic recordings on songs by Screaming Trees. He can also be heard on several songs by the band Queens of the Stone Age. He was a poet and an author of several popular books. Sadly, he endured addiction, hard living and health difficulties before passing away in February of 2022 at the age of 57.
Prato pays tribute to one of rock’s great poets and lyricists in this book. It features over 20 all-new interviews with Lanegan’s fellow collaborators, friends and admirers. He'll share some of those stories from the book in this interview including one about the Nirvana song Lanegan co-wrote the lyrics for but isn't credited. Which song is it and why wasn't Lanegan given credit? Find out in this episode!
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"Tori Amos: Every Album, Every Song"/Lisa Torem [Episode 115] Feb 25, 2023

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Lisa Torem is a returning guest to talk about her book “Tori Amos: Every Album, Every Song”. It’s part of the “On Track” series of books by Sonicbond Publishing.
Tori Amos gained fame in 1992 with the release of her album Little Earthquakes including the singles "Silent All These Years" and "Crucify". That was followed by 1994’s Under The Pink which featured the hit singles "Cornflake Girl" and "God". She’s released a total of 16 studio albums. With each release, she broke new ground both musically and thematically. She’s been nominated for Grammys, she was the first female artist to chart in the Billboard Top ten in Classical, Alternative and Rock genres simultaneously. We’ll talk about Tori’s career, starting with her late 1980s synth pop beginnings right through to her 2021 album Ocean to Ocean.
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Jefferson Airplane's 'Surrealistic Pillow' at 56/w Richard Butterworth ("Jefferson Airplane: Every Album, Every Song") [Episode 114] Feb 17, 2023

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On this month in 1967, Jefferson Airplane released the album Surrealistic Pillow. It’s considered to be one of the greatest albums to come out of the late 60s counterculture, psychedelic rock era. It's also considered to be one of the greatest albums of all time. Author Richard Butterworth is back on the podcast to talk about the album and the band’s history.
Richard recently released the book “Jefferson Airplane: Every Album, Every Song” as part of Sonicbond’s On Track series. Richard talks about the band’s origins, how they drew on folk, blues, jazz and even literary visionaries to create their sound and lyrical themes. We also get into the band’s rise to prominence followed by their demise. As the book promo states: “Jefferson Airplane burned fierce and bright before their decline with the death of the psychedelic dream in Haight-Ashbury’s dreamily LSD-drenched hippie heartland. More than any other, the band and their recorded output were synonymous with the birth and death of the hippie era.”
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