Songbook White Rabbit

The shy but free spirit who never played by anyone else’s rules, Vashti Bunyan brings her own unique take and experiences to this fascinating discussion about the book Marianne by Marianne Faithfull with David Dalton.
Admitting that she was very nervous to revisit an era she had long tried to leave behind her, and a person she didn’t like being compared to, she quickly reveals that reading the book was a revelation.
Along the way we hear about her dad wishing she’d been a boy, what she’d misunderstood about Marianne Faithfull and why people have the sixties all wrong.
A brilliantly insightful conversation with a true British musical legend (and some strong language, be warned!).
Books mentioned in the podcast:
Wayward by Vashti Bunyan https://uk.bookshop.org/books/wayward-just-another-life-to-live/9781474621939
Bert Weedon’s Play in a Day https://uk.bookshop.org/books/bert-weedon-s-play-in-a-day/9780571529650 
Faithfull: An Autobiograhpy by Marianne Faithfull with David Dalton https://www.amazon.co.uk/Faithfull-Autobiography-Marianne/dp/0815410468
Bodies: Life and Death in Music by Ian Winwood https://uk.bookshop.org/books/bodies-life-and-death-in-music/9780571364183
Clothes, clothes, clothes. Music, music, music. Boys, boys, boys. By Viv Albertine https://uk.bookshop.org/books/clothes-clothes-clothes-music-music-music-boys-boys-boys/9780571351343
The Foghorn’s Lament by Jennifer Lucy Allen https://uk.bookshop.org/books/the-foghorn-s-lament-the-disappearing-music-of-the-coast/9781474615037
You can buy Jude's book The Sound of Being Human: How Music Shapes Our Lives here: https://uk.bookshop.org/books/the-sound-of-being-human-how-music-shapes-our-lives/9781474622929
 
Finally White Rabbit's Spotify Playlist of 'booksongs' - songs inspired by books loved by our guests - is here: https://open.spotify.com/playlist/7chuHOeTs9jpyKpmgXV6uo

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Writer and White Rabbit author Adelle Stripe joins Jude to chat about the 1999 book by James Young called Nico, Songs They Never Play on the Radio.
As well as delving into the grimy Manchester life of singer Nico and her manager Alan Wise that the book portrays they also cover, amongst many things, the intrigue of Adam Ant, why reading about failure is more fun than reading about success, misogyny and how to write about drug use without glamorising it.
Books mentioned in the podcast:
Ten Thousand Apologies: Fat White Family and the Miracle of Failure by Adelle Stripe https://bit.ly/3QMfkO2
The Boy Looked at Johnny by Julie Birchill and Tony Parsons https://bit.ly/3RMBrFu
England’s Dreaming by Jon Savage https://uk.bookshop.org/books/england-s-dreaming/9780571368549
You are Beautiful and You are Alone by Jennifer Otter Bickerdike https://uk.bookshop.org/books/you-are-beautiful-and-you-are-alone-the-biography-of-nico/9780571350018
Coal Black Mornings by Brett Anderson https://uk.bookshop.org/books/coal-black-mornings/9781408710487
Hellfire: the Jerry Lee Lewis Story by Nick Tosches https://bit.ly/3LeZFFN
Kitch: A Fictional Biography of a Calypso Star by Anthony Joseph https://bit.ly/3LdH0KA
You can buy Jude's book The Sound of Being Human: How Music Shapes Our Lives here: https://uk.bookshop.org/books/the-sound-of-being-human-how-music-shapes-our-lives/9781474622929
Finally White Rabbit's Spotify Playlist of 'booksongs' - songs inspired by books loved by our guests - is here: https://open.spotify.com/playlist/7chuHOeTs9jpyKpmgXV6uo

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Podcaster supremo and (importantly for this episode) Beatles obsessive Geoff Lloyd joins Jude for a Songbook deep dive.
 
Getting together to unpick Paul McCartney's recent bestseller The Lyrics, revelations abound. From Geoff telling Jude how his wife uses The Beatles as a carrot to get him to do stuff to whether Macca admits to watching bad films about himself. They discuss how hard it is to get McCartney off-script, the Beatles' skill at legacy-building and whether Geoff will admit to having a favourite Beatle. 
 
For fans and non-fans alike.
Books mentioned in the podcast:
Paul McCartney: Many Years from Now by Barry Miles (used only) https://bit.ly/3TPTDiT
Revolution in the Head by Ian McDonald https://bit.ly/3AYFffy
One Two Three Four by Craig Brown https://bit.ly/3BnAn5m
Postcards from the Boys by Ringo Starr (used only) https://bit.ly/3KVnW3J
The Beatles - All These Years Vol. I by Mark Lewisohn https://uk.bookshop.org/books/the-beatles-all-these-years-volume-one-tune-in/9781408705759
Hunter Davies
My Life in Pictures by Pattie Boyd https://uk.bookshop.org/books/my-life-in-pictures/9781909526907
How to be Invisible by Kate Bush https://uk.bookshop.org/books/how-to-be-invisible/9780571350940
You can buy Jude's book The Sound of Being Human: How Music Shapes Our Lives here: https://uk.bookshop.org/books/the-sound-of-being-human-how-music-shapes-our-lives/9781474622929
Finally White Rabbit's Spotify Playlist of 'booksongs' - songs inspired by books loved by our guests - is here: https://open.spotify.com/playlist/7chuHOeTs9jpyKpmgXV6uo

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NTS breakfast show presenter, DJ and writer Zakia Sewell gets together with Jude to chat about her choice of book for this week's episode - The Folk by Ross Cole.
 
Zakia has a lifelong interest in and love of folk in all its myriad forms and definitions - some of which they grapple with here!
 
Jude and Zakia also delve into childhood mix tapes, Albion, the quest for meaning in dark times and the complex politics of collecting folk songs.
 
Books mentioned:
The Folk: Music, Modernity and the Political Imagination by Ross Cole https://bit.ly/3AANFJZ
Blues People by LeRoi Jones (Amiri Baraka) https://uk.bookshop.org/books/blues-people/9781838858148
You can buy Jude's book The Sound of Being Human: How Music Shapes Our Lives here: https://uk.bookshop.org/books/the-sound-of-being-human-how-music-shapes-our-lives/9781474622929
Finally White Rabbit's Spotify Playlist of 'booksongs' - songs inspired by books loved by our guests - is here: https://open.spotify.com/playlist/7chuHOeTs9jpyKpmgXV6uo


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Writer and BBC Radio 3 presenter Kate Molleson joins Jude to talk about the book Bessie Smith by Jackie Kay.
As well as digging into the life of Bessie they also discuss how music provides solace, childhood encounters with music, whether women are allowed to be straight up authorities on music, radical lyrics and the complications of discussing a female musician’s clothes.
Books mentioned in the podcast:
Sound Within Sound: Opening Our Ears to the Twentieth Century by Kate Molleson https://bit.ly/3bZkZC2
Us Conductors by Sean Michaels https://uk.bookshop.org/books/us-conductors/9781408868690
The Musical Life of Gustav Mole by Kathryn Meyrick https://uk.bookshop.org/books/the-musical-life-of-gustav-mole/9780859533331
Bessie Smith by Jackie Kay https://bit.ly/3wddpuF
You can buy Jude's book The Sound of Being Human: How Music Shapes Our Lives here: https://uk.bookshop.org/books/the-sound-of-being-human-how-music-shapes-our-lives/9781474622929
Finally White Rabbit's Spotify Playlist of 'booksongs' - songs inspired by books loved by our guests - is here: https://open.spotify.com/playlist/7chuHOeTs9jpyKpmgXV6uo

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Author and journalist Lloyd Bradley joins Jude to discuss Ted Gioia’s book Music: A Subversive History.
 
A wonderful conversation that takes in (amongst many things) Lloyd’s chef training, being sent baby clothes by George Clinton, becoming Shakin’ Stevens ‘envoy on earth’, the responsibility of flying the flag for black music writers in the UK and why music right now is in the best place it’s ever been. 
Books mentioned in the podcast:
You can pre-order Lloyd’s next book, Funk is Its Own Reward, here https://uk.bookshop.org/books/funk-is-its-own-reward-from-r-b-to-hip-hop/9781472123411
Bass Culture by Lloyd Bradley https://uk.bookshop.org/books/bass-culture-when-reggae-was-king/9780140237634  
Music: A Subversive History by Ted Gioia https://amzn.to/3wbH0oe
Meet Me at Jim and Andy’s by Gene Lees https://uk.bookshop.org/books/meet-me-at-jim-and-andy-s-jazz-musicians-and-their-world/9780195046113
Move on Up by Aaron Cohen https://uk.bookshop.org/books/move-on-up-chicago-soul-music-and-black-cultural-power/9780226653037
You can buy Jude's book The Sound of Being Human: How Music Shapes Our Lives here: https://uk.bookshop.org/books/the-sound-of-being-human-how-music-shapes-our-lives/9781474622929
Finally White Rabbit's Spotify Playlist of 'booksongs' - songs inspired by books loved by our guests - is here: https://open.spotify.com/playlist/7chuHOeTs9jpyKpmgXV6uo

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