# Lonnie Donegan

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Leo Sayer has met everyone – rock legends, sport superstars, future presidents …

Leo Sayer burst onto national telly in 1973 dressed as a Pierrot with the Show Must Go On launching a 50-year career in colourful company – songwriters, boxing legends, swindling managers, scurrilous socialites – and learning a great deal in the process. “Don’t underestimate the idiots!” is the har…

Episode 89: FOLK SONG (AND BAGPUSS TOO!)

Folk song holds a vital place within everybody's culture. From political songs to work songs, lyrics record our feelings, our traditions and, of course, our stories across the ages. In the episode of the podcast, folk singers and writers Sandra Kerr and John Faulkner talk about their thoughts on th…

Ep 10 | Rock & Roll : Part 2

In Part 2 of their journey through the origins of rock & roll, Janis Siegel and Yusuf Gandhi explore the artists who transformed a musical movement into a global cultural phenomenon. From Bill Haley's Rock Around the Clock and Jerry Lee Lewis's explosive performances to Elvis Presley's groundbreaki…

Ep 10 | Rock & Roll : Part 2

In Part 2 of their journey through the origins of rock & roll, Janis Siegel and Yusuf Gandhi explore the artists who transformed a musical movement into a global cultural phenomenon. From Bill Haley's Rock Around the Clock and Jerry Lee Lewis's explosive performances to Elvis Presley's groundbreaki…

Episode 045 - Seven Inches Of History - Lonnie Donegan - My Old Man's A Dustman (1960)

A dustbin, a donkey jacket and one of the biggest singalongs of 1960. This time on Seven Inches of History, we reach one of those records that seems to have been part of British life forever — Lonnie Donegan's "My Old Man's a Dustman." By 1960, Donegan was already the undisputed king of British…

Woody Guthrie Tribute Part 2

This features covers of Woody Guthrie songs by his contemporaries, by some current artists, songs by the next generations of Guthries, and some new songs based on Woody Guthrie lyrics, some of the more than 3000 he wrote in his amazing lifetime.  Here's the playlist:William Worden                  …

Episode 1176: Yesterdays Gold 13 with Pyro

Rock Island Radio winds back the clock to the hits of yesterday.  Tracks from Bill Haley and His Comets, Rolling Stones, Beatles, Smokey Robinson & The Miracles, Gerry & the Pacemakers, The Shirelles, John Fred & His Playboy Band, Kinks, Free, Cat Stevens, Hermans Hermits, Paul Simon, Lonnie Donega…

S6 E9: Tom Jones, Donna Summer, Rick Astley, Puff Daddy, Kanye West, DJ Khaled/Rihanna

Or alternatively: Lonnie Donegan, Giorgio Moroder, Stock Aitken Waterman, The Police, Daft Punk and Santana. Big hitters, massive samples, problematic characters, reputations both won and lost, and - just this once - copious swearing. Listen to this episode in full, with all tracks embedded (seven-…

Rory Gallagher – Ireland’s first rock star remembered by the brother who managed him

You forget how huge and ubiquitous Rory Gallagher was in the ‘70s, just 22 at the Isle of Wight and auditioning for the Stones four years later, an inspiration for Johnny Marr, Andy Partridge, the Edge, Slash and countless others. And for his brother and manager Dónal - “it was a big wide world I w…

Rory Gallagher – Ireland’s first rock star remembered by the brother who managed him

You forget how huge and ubiquitous Rory Gallagher was in the ‘70s, just 22 at the Isle of Wight and auditioning for the Stones four years later, an inspiration for Johnny Marr, Andy Partridge, the Edge, Slash and countless others. And for his brother and manager Dónal - “it was a big wide world I w…