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E37: Glen Campbell, Jimmy Webb and The Wichita Lineman with Dylan Jones

E37: Glen Campbell, Jimmy Webb and The Wichita Lineman with Dylan Jones

FromRock's Backpages


E37: Glen Campbell, Jimmy Webb and The Wichita Lineman with Dylan Jones

FromRock's Backpages

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Length:
60 minutes
Released:
Jul 26, 2019
Format:
Podcast episode

Description

Joined by GQ editor (and sometime i-D contibutor) Dylan Jones, Mark and Barney talk about Dylan's new book The Wichita Lineman: Searching in the Sun for the World's Greatest Unfinished Song and celebrate 'Lineman''s composer Jimmy Webb and the song's original singer, the late Glen Campbell. Dylan explains how he came to write the book and the three men enthuse about Webb's ability to tell stories in song and in person.After listening to a clip from a 2005 audio interview with Webb himself, wherein he laments the lack of complexity in contemporary pop and discusses his use of harmony and chords, Mark and Barney quiz Dylan about hiring Boris Johnson as car correspondent for GQ magazine. Talk turns briefly to politics as they consider how Dylan's acquaintance David Cameron might now feel about calling the 2016 referendum.Mark presents highlights from the week's new library pieces. These include an interview with Robin Gibb shortly after he left the Bee Gees, a report from the Wailers' first trip to London, and a Diana Ross press conference about the album she recorded with Chic's Nile Rodgers and Bernard Edwards.To buy Dylan Jones' The Wichita Lineman, visit the Faber website.Produced by Jasper Murison-BowiePieces discussed: Jimmy Webb, Paul Simon, Bee Gees, Jimmy Page/Led Zeppelin, Todd Rundgren, The Wailers, The Stylistics, Pink Floyd's The Wall, Diana Ross/Chic, Absolute Beginners, Violence in hip-hop/Sleeping Bag Records, Courtney Love/Hole
Released:
Jul 26, 2019
Format:
Podcast episode

Titles in the series (100)

They were so much older then, they're younger than that now: Mark Pringle and Barney Hoskyns reel in the years and riff on all that's new this week in the world's biggest library of music journalism — definitive interviews with legends of the last 60 years by the pop press' greatest writers ... and much much more. The RBP podcast is produced by Jasper Murison-Bowie and is a proud part of Pantheon — the podcast network for music lovers.