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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…

This week’s word on Almost a Radio Show is cockwomble… there’s Minnie Ripperton’s first band when she was 15… LSD is the accidental invention, there’s kangaroo trivia and fun factoids… Bob Dylan is Knocking on Heaven’s Door while the boy from New York City ties a yellow ribbon round the ole oak tree… and Joan Baez covers a Beatle’s classic.

This week on Almost a Radio Show – Shulve is the word… The Roosters is Eric Clapton’s first band… Melanie has a Rolling Stones cover… Dave Loggins has the one-hit-wonder… there’s a tragic back story to There Ain’t No Mountain High Enough… Bill Withers covers a Beatles song… plus pig trivia, fun factoids and The Streisand Effect!

Pandiculate is the word of the week. All humans and most animals do it daily! We’ve goy Tom Petty’s first band, Mudcrutch… a great cover by Natalie Imbruglia… a one-hit-wonder from Chip Taylor and Merilee Rush… Bryan Adams covers a Beatles song and lead singer Al ‘Blind Owl’ Wilson died way too young after going up the country on the road again… 

Drum roll! Bring on the noctambulist! What about J.J. Cale’s first band, Leather Coated Minds? Who could forget the classic, Cows with Guns or the one-hit-wonder by Men Without Hats? What is the accidental invention and what Beach Boys song did Paul McCartney say was the greatest song ever written? What Beatles song did Chris de Burgh cover beautifully? Yes, great music, bovine trivia and random f...

An Illeist refers to himself or herself in third person. Donald Trump is good at it… Have a listen to Ozzie Osbourne before Black Sabbath… AI is no longer about Artificial Insemination… who wins the best version of the 1966 song Bang Bang (My Baby Shot Me Down), Cher or Nancy? Whi did Bob Marley buy two BMWs? And what Beatles song did 10CC cover? 

Apricity is catching the warmth of the sun in winter! Did you know Beyonce started in a band called Girls Tyme? Not good. Did Paul McCartney really die in 1967? Do you remember Pilot of the Airwaves? Stevie Wright fronting The Easybeats before he discovered heroin and brain damage… plus fun factoids and a great cover of Yesterday that has its debut on Almost a Radio Show! 

Interrobang! Gosh. Episode 30. And apart from interrobang, Almost a Radio Show has Neil Diamond’s first band, Neil & Jack… Santana with a cover that is better than the original… Right Said Fred with a one-hit-wonder… INXS with Australia’s greatest ever song… Marianne Faithful with a sweet version of Yesterday as well as the usual banter around trivia, an accidental invention, an old-time radio...

Almost a Radio Show is brought to you by Glabella & Philtrum. They are not lawyers or accountants but features as plain as the nose on your face… There’s a cover song performed by a group who also wrote the original (hint – the first song written by Jagger & Richards) … and a band that included Jim Messina, Stephen Stills and Neil Young before they became famous elsewhere. There’s the usua...

Please don’t absquatulate from Almost a Radio Show because there are lots of goodies like trivia, fun factoids, an accidental invention, a boke called Sting before he became famous, a bloke called Eddie Cochran before he became 21 and Henry Deutschendorf Jr. does a lovely rendition of Yesterday!

Nothing rhymes with pint, orange, silver, bilge, month, ninth, dangerous or marathon… bit something rhymes with purple! Carly Simon sings (before she became famous), The Beatles do a cover and the late Peter Woolnough is part of Almost a Radio Show… You know Pete… He was the grandson of George who had been all around the world, but lived no special place. He changed his last name and married a gir...

Billingsgate is home to London’s fishmarkets and the resident fishmongers have such colourful vulgar language it is actually called Billingsgate language.  Also part of Almost a Radio Show this week – Tom Jones, the Mamas & the Papas, Katy Perry, The Bee Gees and, as an extra special treat NO Billy Ray Cyrus!

Just what is nugacity?! What band did Shirley Strachan front before finding fame in Skyhooks? What song did Cyndi Lauper cover and make her own? What Beatles number one song has not one Beatle playing an instrument? And, as usual, there's trivia, fun factoids, an accidental invention and a cover of Yesterday.

Almost a Radio Show podcast this week is brought to you by the word tarradiddle… and includes an occupation called luthier… Ronnie Burns in a band called The Flies… Manfred Mann covering Bruce Springsteen… The Troggs’ biggest hit… a Bob Dylan hit and miss… a Barrett Strong one-hit-wonder that was covered by The Beatles… an accidental invention, fun factoids and more! 

Gardyloo is the word of the day in Almost a Radio Show. It’s what people yelled from upstairs windows to warm passers-by below that they were about to empty their chamber pot onto the street. There’s Rod Stewart in a band before he became famous… Daryl Braithwaite has a cover song and Lou Bega has the one-hit-wonder… there is a surprising version of Yesterday plus fun factoids, an accidental inven...

In Almost a Radio Show the word ‘textpectation’ enters the language… John Paul Young enters a band called Elm Tree… there are more portmanteaus than you can poke a podcast at… a Bob Dylan cover that knocks Bob out of the park…there’s Dexys Midnight Runner’s one-hit-wonder… Buddy Holly calls it a day… a heavy metal band takes on Yesterday… plus fun factoids and an accidental invention that literall...

It’s Almost a Radio Show podcast 21 and what do these have in common – buffleheads, bustards, boobies, bushtits, dickcissels, goat suckers, bog suckers and honeycreepers? Who is the famous rocker whose first band was called The Golliwogs? Which Bob Dylan song has been covered by Bryan Ferry, Edie Brickell & the New Bohemians, Leon Russell and Timothee Chalamet? Who sang the one-hit-wonder, Tak...