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BONUS: “Strawberry Fair” by Anthony Newley
A History of Rock Music in 500 Songs
This is a special extra episode of the podcast, not one of the “proper” five hundred. A book I’ve written, on the TV series The Strange World of Gurney Slade, has just become available for pre-order from Obverse Books , so to publicise that I’ve done an extra episode, on the pop music career of its star, Anthony Newley. The next normal episode will be up in a day or two. Transcript below the cut. Erratum: In a previous version of this episode, I mentioned, in passing, my understanding that Newley was an alcoholic. This has been strongly questioned by some fans, who took offence at the suggestion, and as it was utterly irrelevant to the point I was making I have deleted those three words rather than cause further offence. (more…)
View originalThis is a special extra episode of the podcast, not one of the “proper” five hundred. A book I’ve written, on the TV series The Strange World of Gurney Slade, has just become available for pre-order from Obverse Books , so to publicise that I’ve done an extra episode, on the pop music career of its star, Anthony Newley. The next normal episode will be up in a day or two. Transcript below the cut. Erratum: In a previous version of this episode, I mentioned, in passing, my understanding that Newley was an alcoholic. This has been strongly questioned by some fans, who took offence at the suggestion, and as it was utterly irrelevant to the point I was making I have deleted those three words rather than cause further offence. (more…)
- Published
- August 24, 2020
- Status
- active
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- 43b73f23106a332b6e160cdfe670ef4e582eaa93c6234c31b270510b1c5c5ec9
- Archive key
- bonus-and-8220-strawberry-fair-and-8221-by-anthony-newley--entry_ee9790a94b570d808dd4680e185e
- Archive id
- entry_ee9790a94b570d808dd4680e185e