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Dragnet

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Dragnet was created and produced by Jack Webb, who starred as the terse Sgt. Friday. Webb had...

Ayres on the Air: Series 2

Pam Ayres, Peter Reynolds, Felicity Montagu and Geoffrey Whitehead

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Just over thirty years ago, a little-known poet named Pam Ayres made her debut on the ITV talent...

Round the Horne: Classic Comedy from the BBC Archives: Complete Series 3

Marty Feldman, Hugh Paddick, Kenneth Horne and Barry Took

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Kenneth Horne, Kenneth Williams, Betty Marsden and Hugh Paddick star in 20 episodes of the anarchic...

OS X Mavericks: The Missing Manual

David Pogue

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What do you get when you cross a Mac with an iPad? OS X 10.9 Mavericks. Its 200 new features include...

Burton at the BBC: Classic Excerpts from the BBC Archive

Richard Burton, Full Cast and B.B.C. Audiobooks ltd

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Highlights from Richard Burton's finest BBC radio performances from the 1940s to the 1980s. Richard...

Joey Santiago recommended Loaded by The Velvet Underground in Music (curated)

Loaded by The Velvet Underground

1970 | Compilation

7.0

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"Ah that's the one, unfortunately, Lou Reed hated. He couldn't stand it... but I liked it! There's such a variety of songs on it. There's one song on there - [line cuts out; we reconnect] - I told you Lou Reed hated that album! That song 'Who Loves The Sun', how good is that?! The breakdown on it, it's like a hoedown. They called it an album, but this is just an art project! A lost memo for an album... Let's come up with 16 ideas and just whittle it down. 'I Found A Reason', that song, the melody [imitates it] that was just amazing. 'Rock & Roll', I first heard that in my father's car. He had a Monte Carlo, and I thought that was cool. It came on the radio and I was like, "What is this?!" It was so simple and it was talking about a radio station in New York - and I was in New York, that was where I heard it - and I just loved the rhythm guitar and also the soaring chorus, where it's just like three notes and it kind of soars around. And that became an influence on our song called 'Ed Is Dead' - another homage!"

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Going on the Turn

Danny Baker

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'Quite simply the funniest book you'll read all year ...easily as funny, as self-deprecating and as...

Noel Gallagher recommended Never Mind The Bollocks, Here's The Sex Pistols by The Sex Pistols in Music (curated)

"Of all the people who were a direct influence on Oasis, the line goes back to the Sex Pistols, whether that’s Joy Division/New Order, The Smiths, The Stone Roses or Factory Records, and if they hadn’t played those two gigs in Manchester who knows what would have happened? And on that album you’ve got Lydon or Johnny Rotten with that voice going on about the Royal Family and boredom and the rest while you’ve got Steve Jones just hammering it out like a pub rocker or like someone who’s into Slade or The Small Faces rather than punk rock, and between those two things you’ve got it. Every time I listen to it I think that if it came out tomorrow it would fit right in, it wouldn’t feel dated. Way back at the start of Oasis we did a radio session for Mark Radcliffe and during ‘Cigarettes and Alcohol’ Liam out of nowhere sang ‘Sunshi-i-ine’, you know, with about ten extra syllables and when it went out on the radio I remember thinking, ‘Fuck me, that sounds great.’ And when we came to record I was like, ‘Sing it like you did on Radcliffe again, like Lydon.’ It was his idea, I just pushed him toward it."

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