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Michael Des Barres - The Now Spinning Magazine Interview with Phil Aston Silverhead - Detective - Chequered Past - Obsession - The Powerstation - Live Aid - Clint Eastwood - Steve Van Zant - Don Johnston - The Mistakes Michael Des Barres is a Rock n Roll Star, a visionary, a motivational speaker, a dream maker and renaissance man. This is roller coaster of an interview, funny,brutally honest and f...

The Captain of The Lost Waves - Interview Mysterium Tremedum by The Captain of The Lost Waves. This is a pastoral PROG album that mixes elements of ELO, Tears For Fears, Japan, Tangerine Dreams to make a quite remarkable album. 'The Captain' talks about spiritual energy, self-identity, melancholy and depression and how music has helped him through some very difficult periods of his life. This is v...

The Bonham - Bullick Interview - Now Spinning Magazine Podcast In this episode of the Now Spinning Magazine Podcast I am delighted to be joined by Deborah Bonham and Peter Bullick. In the interview they talk about their new album the current tour, growing up with John Bonham, Bad Company, Free and playing with Paul Rogers and lots more. Deborah Bonham has established herself as one of the finest b...

HiFi Tips - Regular Now Spinning contributor and Facebook group member Chris Wright provides music collectors with a framework for upgrading their music HiFi systems to get the most from their vinyl and CD collections. This is intended as non-technical advice for all budgets, providing some useful pointers for those of you who are thinking about making improvements to your HiFi sound.  Phil A...

The CD at 40 Celebrating the CD Format This Podcast features my guest Charlie White who many of you will know from his collaboration on the YouTube channel and the Now Spinning Magazine Facebook Group. In this video we talk about when we first started buying CDs and the effect it has had on our collections over the years. Thank you for your support Phil Aston | Now Spinning Magazine

In this episode I interview Peter Goalby who talks about his album ‘Easy with The heartaches’. Peter was the lead vocalist in Uriah Heep in the 1980s and sang on three of their albums Abominog, Head First and Equator. Peter also talks about his career and goes into great detail about how this album came about. This really is a lost album, hidden for over 30 years and to my ears the best melodic Ro...

On this Episode, I hand over to Now Spinning Magazine Collaborator Joe Geesin who went to visit artist Rodney Matthews to talk about his latest projects.  Phil Aston Rodney Matthews' art has always fascinated me, ever since I acquired Nazareth's No Mean City in the early 80s, and I enjoyed his work on other albums I loved, largely Magnum, Praying Mantis and Eloy. I started collecting his othe...

My guest on this Video Podcast is Amanda Lehmann who I first saw in 2011 playing guitar and singing with Steve Hackett. Amanda Lehman’s latest album, Innocence and Illusion, is a wonderful collection of nine original songs that showcase her talent as a singer and multi-instrumentalist. Originally a classically trained pianist, Amanda found herself falling in love with the power of rock and the ove...

In this episode I am joined by Simon Mayor and Hilary James who talk about their new album 'When Summer Comes Again'. I reviewed this album in my first 'New Music Round Up' Feature on the Now Spinning Magazine YouTube Channel and Website. I described it as music that conjured up relaxing on a lazy Summer's day while enjoying a glass of crisp white wine. The is pastoral folk mus...

As you know I spend a lot of time with rock-driven music and then something comes along that completely floors me. The St Buryan Sessions by Sarah McQuaid is already in my top 5 albums of the year. It is just spellbinding. If you like Joni Mitchell, John Martyn, Kristin Hersh, Janis Ian and Eva Cassidy then give this a listen. One member of the Now Spinning Magazine Facebook Community described Sa...

In this episode, I am joined by Robin George who since the 1980s had built up a name for himself as a guitar player, musician, producer, songwriter and solo artist. You may know Robin George from his classic 1985 album Dangerous Music which contained the global hit Heartline which both Tommy Vance and Alan Freeman declared their record of the year. Robin talked about his latest album and looks bac...

In this episode, I am joined by Dale Michelsohn who was a stage technician at The Birmingham Odeon from 1974 to 1988 when it stopped putting on live concerts. The Birmingham Odeon was a major venue for rock concerts through the 1970s and 80s. I saw my first concert there when I was 15 which was Deep Purple. In this podcast, I talk to Dale about many of the bands that played there and what it was l...

In this episode, I am joined by Charlie White as we discuss our 10 reasons that CDs still rock. Everywhere you look online vinyl is getting all the good press as people seem to fall over themselves wanting to write off the CD as a dead or dying format. On the Now Spinning YouTube channel both myself and Charlie recently did separate videos listing our top reasons why the CD is still the preferred...

The Dean Friedman Interview You may know singer songwriter Dean Friedman from his 1970s hits 'Lucky Stars', 'Lydia' and 'Ariel', but he has also released some wonderful albums over the years with 'Songs For Grown Ups' and '12 Songs' being two of my favourites. In this episode, Dean talks about his new album 'American Lullaby'. “The new album and show...