We like to think of Daryl Hall as a kindred spirit, his home-recorded Live At Daryl’s House series with its magnificent roster of guests now racking up 90 episodes. He’s about to tour in May and talks to us here from his house in the Bahamas – straw hat, roosters crowing! – looking back at the first gigs he ever saw and played and other delights such as …

… travelling with his mother’s Broadway dance band when he was three.

… seeing the Temptations, Smokey Robinson, Patti LaBelle and the Bluetones in the Uptown Theater, Philadelphia, in the early ‘60s.

… Three Men In A Boat: a barge trip through London with Dave Stewart and Bob Dylan.

… “My teenage rule: I will only wear dark green or black and needlepoint shoes. I had balls in those days!”

… why Hall & Oates is “in the past” - “He initiated the split and neither of us want to resolve it”.

… songs he always plays - Sara Smile, I Can't Go for That (No Can Do) – and why you’ll never hear She’s Gone again.

… making his first records on a four-track in Virtue Studios, Philadelphia, and recording with MFSB. “I still like to keep it lean and mean.”

… playing session piano with the Delfonics and making a single with Chubby Checker.

… his first cheque for songwriting - $15.

… “I brought rock and roll to my High School!”

… the success of Live At Daryl’s House and the episodes with Todd Rundgren, Smokey Robinson and Glenn Tilbrook.

… his sideline in restoring 18th Century houses.

Live From Daryl’s House here: https://livefromdarylshouse.com/

Daryl Hall tour dates and tickets here: https://hallandoates.com/tour/

Buy/stream the ‘D’ album here: https://ingrv.es/DarylHallD

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The chocolate Easter bunny of rock and roll news in highly nutritious and digestible fragments, such as …

… the Who’s very public sacking of Zak Starkey.

… why no band ever wants to play quietly.

… how a magazine in a shop window sparked the Neil Tennant/Mark Springer album.

… Katy Perry’s space ‘mission’ and the trenchant observations by her and the ‘crew’ – “I can’t put it into words but I looked out the window and we got to see the moon!”

… The Thing In The Cellar, Dogs Are Everywhere, Roadkill … Pulp song or episode of The Good Life?

… the brilliant new ‘One To One: John & Yoko’ documentary and how we miss the days when rock stars went on live chat shows and said the first thing that came into their heads.

… why musicians are fundamentally different from other entertainers.

... perilous domestic gadgets of the ‘60s.

… the allure of songs about space.

… “Ray’s at the controls!” When Ray Charles went walkabout on the band’s private plane.

… Pete Townshend: “We need bigger weapons!”

… Ben Watt DJ-ing in ear defenders.

… Ray Davies, Charlie Watts, Bill Wyman …? Who grew the first psychedelic moustache?

Plus birthday guest Al Hearton on Kris Kristofferson, John Travolta, Bruce Dickinson, Gary Numan and the rock and roll/aviation crossover.

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Dave Pegg joined Fairport Convention 56 years ago and fully deserves some sort of medal. They’re playing their 49th Cropredy in August and touring the UK later in the year. He talks to us here about the first gigs he ever saw and played which, delightfully, involves …

… the night Hank Marvin took him to see Bjork.

… an all-nighter in Birmingham with John Mayall, Eric Clapton, Chris Farlowe and Spencer Davis.

… memories of his “school hero” Denny Laine.

… the fine art of getting it together in the country: life at the Angel pub in Little Hadham – “flea-bitten, enough hot water for one person and a lorry crashed through the wall into Dave Swarbrick’s bedroom”.

… the link between ticket sales and high blood pressure.

… what not to do when you meet McCartney.

… a night on the whisky with Rick Danko that ended in hospital.

… how a band lasts 58 years without falling out.

… the Island albums that made their reputation but never earned them any money.

… unsung Birmingham acts: Denny Laine & the Diplomats (Bev Bevan on drums), Steve Gibbons in the Uglys, Jeff Lynne in the Idle Race.

… narrowboats, pewter ale jugs, outdoor settees, Matty Groves, Meet On The Ledge and other cornerstones of the Cropredy experience.

… Dave Swarbrick’s “small holding” and further assorted knob gags.

Fairport Convention tickets here: https://www.davepegg.co.uk/gigs/fairportgigs/

Cropredy tickets here: https://www.fairportconvention.com/

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