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This week’s special word is lilo – not the blow-up bed but it’s a recently invented word to describe a friendship that can lie dormant for years only to pick right back up instantly, as if you’d seen each other last week. There’s some terrific music from covers and a one hit wonder, another Darwin Award, whack facts and great invention that became an environmental disaster.

Who did the best Woodstock – Joni Mitchell or Crosby Stills Nash & Young? Who did The Night the Lights Went Out in Georgia? Which rock guitarist did Nessun Dorma? Who did a great cover of The Beatles’ Lady Madonna? Plus whack facts, a Darwin Award and fun banter. 

There’s Ian Dury in his first band… Somethin’ Stupid is the cover… Concrete and Clay is the one-hit-wonder… There’s The Band with The Weight and Aretha Franklin does The Beatles cover… plus the Darwin Award, whack facts and a dud invention called the Moustache Shield to stop food and drink invading a hairy top lip.

Borborygmus is the medical term for tummy rumbles… There’s Chris Isaak in his first band… a cover that beats the original – Don’t Let Me Be Misunderstood… There’s Hans Poulsen with a one-hit-wonder… Chicago with the meaning of 25 or 6 to 4… the Beatles cover is Paperback Writer… plus an invention, whack facts and a Darwin Award to an idiot who improved our collective gene pool by removing himself...

Trivia, whack facts, dud inventions, a Darwin Award and a song that has been covered 212 times – Ralph McTell’s Streets of London… Doug Parkinson formed a band that had Tommy Emmanuel on guitar… Daddy Cool is the one-hit-wonder and Diana Ross and The Supremes do the Beatles cover.

Cingulomania is a strong desire to hold someone in your arms… 10CC’s Graham Gouldman in his first band… multiple Darwin Awards in the one moment of idiocy… Leo Sayer’s show must go on… Where Do You Go to My Lovely is the one-hit-wonder… plus whack facts, dud inventions and a Beatles cover.

Do you know anyone who is addicted to bed? Do you know which female artist was responsible for giving Mick Jagger his ‘moves’?  Do you know how ex-Rolling Stone Bill Wyman became his own son's ex-son-in-law, the father-in-law of his ex-mother-in-law, as well as the step-grandfather of his ex-wife? Do you know Greg Almann’s first band? Do you remember great Aussie rocker Jeff St John? As alway...

Penultimate means second to last and a penultimatum is almost the final offer. It is like a bluff. Donald (TACO) Trump is good at it… “Your 10% tariff is now 67%. And that’s final! Um… what about 20%? That’s final. No??? Would you like fries with that?” We’ve got Roger Daltry in his first band…another idiot gets a Darwin Award… The Rolling Stones Time Is on My Side is a cover… Alanah Miles has a o...

Can you guess why the penknife was invented? We have Pink Floyd’s Syd Barrett before Pink Floyd… Another worthy idiot wins a Darwin Award…Another Number One hit that took 300 years to chart… and another one-hit-wonder from Roger Voudourus. More life hacks and whack facts, a dud invention and a Beatles cover from Nina Simone…

Lollapalooza… an extraordinary or unusual thing, person, or event…. Another idiot gets a Darwin Award for removing himself from the gene pool… More whack facts and life hacks along with a dud invention – the wine dispensing bra… There’s Graham Nash in his first band… Reggae Red Red Wine is the cover… Double-Barrel is the one hit wonder… Joe Cocker sings so beautifully… and Sherbert has a Beatles c...

Hiraeth is a curious Welsh word to kick-start this week’s Almost a Radio Show podcast… there is a song called My Jellybean… another deserving winner of a Darwin Award… a cover of a 300-year-old song… Lucky Starr with his biggest hit… Starbuck does the one-hit-wonder… Canadian Sarah McLachlan has a sweet performance of Blackbird off the Beatles White Album and there are the usual life hacks, whack...

This week’s Almost a Radio Show podcast is brought to you by a fear of happiness – yes, there is such a phobia… There’s Annie Lennox in a band before the Eurhythmics… Another winner of the coveted Darwin Award who improved our gene pool by removing himself from it… Limp Bizkit covers The Who… Barry Crocker has a one-hit-wonder… there’s the late but wonderful Billy Thorpe and Blood Sweat & Tear...

In Yiddish, would you rather be a mensch or a schmuck? Also in this Almost a Radio Show podcast, Roy Orbison in his first band, The Wink Westerners… Luke Combs covering Tracy Chapman… Electric Avenue is the one-hit-wonder… we dig up the terrific English-Aussie rocker, Jon English… Stevie Wonder works it out with a Beatles cover… Hair in a Can is the failed invention and a Canadian lawyer improves...

Clever but unscrupulous – that’s a ‘snollygoster’… Also in this Almost a Radio Show podcast, Mama Cass in a band before she became famous… Eva Cassidy covering a Fleetwood Mac song… Nicolette Larson with a Lotta Love for the one-hit-wonder… Leonard Cohen with a lotta love for his Norwegian muse, Marianne Ilhen… Marmalade spreads out for the Beatles cover and we have a winner of the Darwin Awards w...

Almost a Radio Show is brought to you by deipnosophists. Where would we be without them?! There is Olivia Newton John in a band before she became famous… but, if you are in Sweden you can’t dance to it in public without a permit… Soft Cell does the cover song… Blind Melon has the one-hit-wonder… Canadian blind guitarist, Jeff Healey does a Beatles cover backed by George Harrison… and there are wha...

This week’s Almost a Radio Show podcast is brought to you by dunderheads and other old-time fools. Eric Carmen started out in a band called The Raspberries. How many paper straws can you stick and hold in a beard? (Hint: More than 100, less than 1000). There is a surprise cover by The Gipsy Kings… the Nashville Teens provide the one-hit-wonder… there are a couple of turtles happy together and Matc...

In this Almost a Radio Show, the recent Russian fad of defenestration... Carole King is in a band before becoming a solo sensation... Sting covers Elton John... Jonathan Edwards has his one-hit-wonder... We remember the late George Michael... Thomas Edison performs Mary Had a Little Lamb... Dear Prudence gets a post-punk goth-rock twist plus trivia, fun facts, life hacks and chat.

In this Almost a Radio Show we discover that Dave is a pluviophile... Debbie Harry is in a band before Blondie... George Michael performs a sensational cover... The Lemon Pipers have a one-hit-wonder from 1968... We remember Ace Frehley from KISS... There is (arguably) the top ten inventions of all time... There's trivia, life hacks and The Bee Gees covering a Beatles song.

A look back at some 40 musicians who died in 2025 but who will live on through their music... including Peter, Paul & Mary, Roberta Flack, Marianne Faithful, Col Joye, Tom Lehrer, Ted Egan, The Beach Boys, Mungo Jerry, The Youngbloods, Badfinger, Limp Bizkit, The Band, The Moody Blues, Supertramp, The Searchers, Blood Sweat & Tears, Brenton Wood, The Band and The Easybeats. 

This Almost a Radio Show one-hour special is really Dave and Ian finding their Christmas musical playlist. Some songs are traditional, some are contemporary, some might surprise. There's John Lennon & Yoko Ono, Joni Mitchell, Jethro Tull, Merle Haggard, Elvis Presley, Paul Kelly, Bing Crosby & David Bowie, The Weathergirls, Bill & Boyd, Chris Rea, Jose Feliciano, Michael Buble, Ti...

In this episode of Almost a Radio Show... Leon Russell in his first band... Whitney Houston covers Dolly Parton... Carl Douglas performs his one-hit-wonder... Jethro Tull has a stunning instrumental composition... Esther Phillips covers a Beatles classic... there's an accidental invention, trivia, fun factoids and the usual banter.

This Almost a Radio Show is brought to you by finely developed buttocks... there's Kenny Rogers in his first band... a cover by Janis Joplin... a one-hit-wonder by Frente... Procol Harem with a great song that ISN'T Whiter Shade of Pale... and Michael Jackson does the cover of a Beatles song... plus the usual fun factoids, trivia and banter.

Almost a Radio Show is feelin’ groovy… there’s Suzi Quatro’s first band… Jose Feliciano has a great cover, Edie Brickell has the one-hit-wonder, Roberta Flack sings Leonard Cohen and Johnny Young has the Beatle’s song he sang more than 800 times!

Nock is Almost a Radio Show’s word of the week… The Flying Machine is James Taylor’s first band… Tina Turner covers Proud Mary… She Didn’t Remember My Name is the one-hit wonder… and can you remember the song featured in Groundhog Day, at six o’clock every morning?

Almost a Radio Show is brought to you by an oxymoron… there’s Johnny O’Keefe in his first band… Harry Nilsson writes a song for the Monkees, buys a London Flat that sees off Mama Cass and Keith Moon and performs a song from the only R-Certificate movies to win the Best Picture Oscar… Eye of the Tiger is the one-hit-wonder and Joe Cocker sings a Beatles ballad…