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Reading the room: Barney Hoskyns sees the Smile live in Brighton. Plus MOJO's Nick Kent talks to Thom Yorke about The Eraser in 2006; Uncut's Rob Young hears about movie scores from Jonny Greenwood in 2011; and Magnet's Jacob Paul Nielsen witnesses the Smile in Detroit in late 2022.

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Have you heard? Remembering Bruce Malamut (1952-2024) via his gonzoid reviews of ZZ Top's Tres Hombres (Zoo World, 1973) and Joni Mitchell's Court and Spark (Crawdaddy, 1974) ... plus his lower-case joint review of Little Feat's Last Record Album and Robert Palmer's Pressure Drop from 1976.

The Long Goodbye

Rebel without a pause: Disc's Ray Fox-Cumming meets the ever-opinionated Steve Harley (1951-2024) in 1974 and the Mail on Sunday's Mal Peachey looks back with the Cockney Rebel star in 1993.

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Magnetic fields forever: Tim Page talks to Stephin Merritt about the three-disc 69 Love Songs (Washington Post, 7 May 2000).

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Wipe Out: NME's Mark Sinker meets Butthole Surfers and survives a chaotic conversation about Texas, amphetamines, killer bees and Jimmy the Greek (1988).

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Episode 173

New episode: Ira Robbins does the Trouser Press and revisits his audio interviews with Nick Lowe and the late Steve Harley.

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