IT ALL COMES BACK
episode 1: Who's twisting the BEATLES' history?
With every reissue and every new interview, the Beatles and their heirs are subtly rewriting their own history. Does it matter? And who are the worst culprits?
episode 2: Is SMILE still a great lost album?
1967 was supposed to begin with the release of Smile, the Beach Boys album previewed as the greatest record of all time. Sixty years on, what went wrong - and was Smile really that great?
episode 3: Should we celebrate the punk anniversary?
''No Beatles, Elvis or The Rolling Stones'', The Clash insited in 1977. But fifty years on, it seems that nostalgia is suddenly OK. What is the punk anniversary celebrating, and wasn't punk supposed to destroy that desperate longing for the past?
episode 4: Bowie and Prince: history's choice
2016 saw the shocking demise of two of music's most compelling and emblematic performers. A decade on, the two men's achievements are being celebrated in vastly different ways. Will one of these two geniuses soon vanish from our collective memory?
episode 5: CHARLES MANSON
Part 1 - bad vibrations with the Beach Boys
1968 saw perhaps the most incongruous artistic liaison in music history, as the white-suited kings of California harmonies championed the dubious talents of a man who was leading a youth cult unafraid to commit brutal murders.
episode 6: CHARLES MANSON
Part 2 - the White power of the Beatles
In the second of our Manson exposes, we explore the strange connection between a best-selling Beatles album and a serial killing cult. And we ask: why do musicians find Manson's family so compelling?
episode 7: BOB DYLAN IS BACK - so what else is new?
As Bob Dylan returns to Europe one more time, two longtime Dylan devotees try to explain why they keep going to see him. Have they been brainwashed, or is Dylan still a genuinely great live performer?
episode 8: Should more of pop's history be CANCELLED?
Several notorious sex offeenders exploited their fame in the music business to commit appalling crimes, and have been scrubbed out of pop history. but are there other pop star criminals who deserve to face the same fate?
episode 9: Was that a great LIVE GIG - or not?
Taking advantage of their age - sorry, experience - two veteran gig-goers explore exactly what makes a great live performance, and what makes some people love shows that other people hate.
episode 10: What next for the BEATLES?
The Beatles' legacy is now under fresh management, controlled by experts exploiting brands such as James Bond an Harry Potter. What will happen to the Fab Four under the new regime?
