Best Mark Sutcliffe Podcasts (2025)

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E203: Jonathan Gould on Talking Heads + Otis Redding + Richard Manuel 1:34:40

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For this episode we're joined – all the way from Brooklyn – by acclaimed author and sometime drummer Jonathan Gould. The native New Yorker recalls his early musical epiphanies, his introduction to the drums and his studying under famed jazz drummer Alan Dawson in mid-'70s Boston. He also reminisces about his years in Woodstock, N.Y., and his associ…

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E202: Paul Gambaccini on the radio + Rolling Stone + Beyoncé audio 1:05:08

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In this episode we welcome the great Paul Gambaccini into RBP's world and ask him about his 50+ years as one of Britain's best-loved broadcasters. "The Great Gambo" tells us about his early radio days at Dartmouth College's WDCR station and explains how he slipped his foot in the door at Rolling Stone in 1970. He then recounts his first meeting wit…

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Rachel Pronger, Peter Suchin, Henry Broome, Elizabeth Fullerton 1:09:57

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Rachel Pronger discusses the work of Vaginal Davis at the Gropius Bau, Peter Suchin covers Barbara Steveni’s work at Modern Art Oxford, Henry Broome looks at the troubled history between art and gentrification and Elizabeth Fullerton reports on the art scene in Tallinn.By Art Monthly

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E201: Bob Merlis on Warner Bros. + Little Feat + Neil Young audio 1:19:52

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For this episode we're joined – all the way from L.A. – by special guest Bob Merlis. The former head of publicity at Warner-Reprise Records in Burbank talks us through his musical odyssey from his Brooklyn childhood to his continuing PR work for the likes of ZZ Top and Carlene Carter. We hear about Bob's start at Record World in late '60s New York …

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E200: Celebrating 200 episodes of the Rock's Backpages podcast 1:21:27

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In this special episode we celebrate the last four years with clips from twelve of the best 100 shows we've recorded in that time. Following an intro from Spandau Ballet mainmain Gary Kemp speaking in January 2023, we reflect on what we have (or haven't) learned over those four years, then play and discuss clips from these episodes: Record Mirror l…

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Maja and Reuben Fowkes 59:55

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Maja and Reuben Fowkes discuss the lessons we may learn from trees, and how artists can be their voice in this Pyrocene age.By Art Monthly

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E199: Phil Sutcliffe on Sounds + Gang of Four + Eric Clapton 1:16:11

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For this episode we're joined by veteran music scribe Phil Sutcliffe to discuss his years on Sounds, Q and MOJO. We start by hearing about our guest's Beatles-obsessed adolescence in the North London suburb of Barnet, then follow him up to Manchester University and his subsequent apprenticeship on the Newcastle Evening Chronicle. Phil explains how …

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E198: Havelock Nelson on Hip Hop + Missy Elliott + Atlantic Records 1:09:39

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For this episode we're joined all the way from Harlem in New York City by venerable hip hop writer Havelock Nelson. The first rap editor at industry bible Billboard talks about his early years in his birthplace Guyana and his love of marching bands in the country's capital Georgetown. From there we hear about his family's move to Brooklyn in 1973 a…

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Jamie Sutcliffe 58:48

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Jamie Sutcliffe discusses artists’ tabletop role-playing games. Hosted by Matt Hale.By Art Monthly

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E197: Siân Pattenden on Select + the Bangles + David Johansen 1:17:11

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For this episode we're joined in person by the delightful Siân Pattenden, author of the Agatha Bilke and Magical Peppers children's book series. We start by asking our guest about her early years as a child actor and teenage playwright before she describes the fanzines she published with her pal Nicky Fijalkowska. We hear how these helped to get he…

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E196: Daniel Wolff & Danny Alexander on Dave Marsh + Curtis Mayfield 1:15:44

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In this episode we welcome not one but two guests and ask them to talk about their long-time friend and mentor Dave Marsh. Daniel Wolff and Danny Alexander co-edited 2023's Marsh anthology Kick Out the Jams: on the eve of his 75th birthday they reflect on his powerful writing, his impassioned politics and his career from Creem and Rolling Stone to …

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Erika Balsom, Ben Burbridge & Dan Kidner 58:26

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Erika Balsom on John Smith’s latest film ‘Being John Smith’, Ben Burbridge on rave culture as an unfulfilled promise for a new politics of the left and Dan Kidner reviews the Deep Time festival at Fruitmarket in Edinburgh.By Art Monthly

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E195: Danny Goldberg on Led Zeppelin + Nirvana + Gil Scott-Heron 1:18:59

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In this episode we're joined by music-biz legend Danny Goldberg to discuss his dealings with Led Zeppelin and Kurt Cobain — and the school days he spent with the great Gil Scott-Heron. Danny takes us back to his short-lived stint at Berkeley and his first port of call on returning to his native New York: clerking at trade bible Billboard, a job tha…

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E194: Gene Sculatti on San Francisco + the Band's Garth Hudson R.I.P. 57:47

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In this episode, we invite the excellent Gene Sculatti to talk us through his career from Crawdaddy! magazine to the Atomic Cocktail radio show he still hosts at Luxuria Music. Commencing in San Francisco in the summer of 1960 — when Gene first heard Dion's 'Lonely Teenager' — we ask our guest about his lifelong love of surf music and the Beach Boy…

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E193: Michael Goldberg on photography + Taj Mahal + Addicted to Noise 1:12:07

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For the first episode of 2025, former Rolling Stone staffer and Bay Area photographer Michael Goldberg joins us to reminisce about his music journalism and discuss his new book Jukebox. We start by asking our guest about the influences of San Franciscan "shooters" from Herb Greene to Annie Liebowitz, with special emphasis on Jim Marshall and Baron …

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E192: Pat Kane on Hue & Cry + Sinatra + Chic + '80s Brit soul 1:14:30

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For the final episode of 2024 we're joined by the formidable Pat Kane, who answers our questions about his dual career as a musician and writer with what co-host Martin Colyer describes as "an almost frightening eloquence". Commencing with the formative memories of his late father singing Frank Sinatra songs to him at bedtime — and his lifelong fix…

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E191: Chris Charlesworth on Melody Maker in the '70s 1:07:23

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For this episode we're joined by Chris Charlesworth, mainstay of Melody Maker in its '70s pomp and subsequently editorial director of music imprint Omnibus Books. Starting out at Skipton's Craven Herald & Pioneer in his native Yorkshire, Chris talks us through key moments in the Maker years he documents in recent memoir Just Backdated. Paying parti…

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Mark Prince 1:00:01

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Mark Prince discusses postwar US modernist abstraction as a form of cultural protectionism.By Art Monthly

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E190: Simon Garfield on Cher + Beyoncé + Luther Vandross 1:26:28

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In this episode we ask the former Time Out editor and acclaimed author of fascinating studies of fonts, maps and encyclopaedias about his long writing career; we also discuss semi-colons and listen to clips from audio interviews with Cher and Luther Vandross. Our guest reflects on Expensive Habits — his 1986 investigation of the music industry's "d…

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E189: Beverley Glick a.k.a. Betty Page on New Romantics + Quincy Jones 1:15:52

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In this episode — recorded on the somewhat sombre Wednesday after the U.S. elections — we welcome the wonderful Beverley Glick to our Hammersmith lair and ask her about her New Romantic nom de plume Betty Page. Beverley tells us about her early days on Sounds, where she started out as editor Alan Lewis' secretary, and talks us through her seminal 1…

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E188: Chris Salewicz on the NME + Supertramp + Amy Winehouse 1:12:17

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In this episode we're joined by NME legend Chris Salewicz, author of acclaimed books about Bob Marley, Joe Strummer and others. We hear about our guest's boyhood in Yorkshire — and about the first gig he ever saw: the Beatles in Leeds in 1963 (followed in rapid succession by the Rolling Stones — plus a young David Bowie — in Huddersfield). Chris th…

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Bob Dickinson & Tom Denman 57:20

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Bob Dickinson discusses artists who connect the sleep crisis to the climate crisis, while Tom Denman reviews the ‘Towards New Worlds’ exhibition at MIMA in Middlesbrough.By Art Monthly

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E187: Simon Raymonde on Cocteau Twins + Dusty Springfield + Bella Union 1:22:17

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For this episode we're joined by the admirable Simon Raymonde, sometime Cocteau Twin, head honcho at Bella Union Records and author of the autobiographical In One Ear. We commence by asking our guest about growing up as the son of the legendary Ivor Raymonde, string arranger on umpteen hits by pop idols from Billy Fury to the Walker Brothers. We he…

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E186: Robert Hilburn on L.A. + his Randy Newman biography 1:12:34

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For this episode we're joined – all the way from sunny Southern California – by L.A. Times legend Robert Hilburn. Bob beams in to discuss his new biography of the peerless Randy Newman, but we start by asking him about the early childhood memories (of his native Louisiana) that he shares with Randy himself. From there he takes us from the Eureka mo…

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E185: Andrew Smith on A.I. + Björk + The Notorious B.I.G. 1:18:13

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For this episode we're joined by the Brooklyn-based Andrew Smith, author of the bestselling Moondust, the "dotcom swindle" saga Totally Wired and the brand-new Devil in the Stack. We start by asking Andrew about the peripatetic childhood that took him from Greenwich Village to Hastings via San Francisco's summer of love. A riveting account of audit…

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Michael Kurtz, Lauren Velvick & Sarah E James 56:27

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Michael Kurtz discusses the work of Delcy Morelos; Lauren Velvick on Roy Claire Potter’s ‘The Wastes’; Sarah E James considers exhibition formats that offer more complex models than those put forward in Claire Bishop’s book ‘Disordered Attention’.By Art Monthly

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E184: Joe Boyd on Global Music + Kate & Anna McGarrigle 1:17:09

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For this episode we're joined by a living musical legend whose career as an A&R man, manager, producer, label-owner and writer spans over 60 extraordinary years. On the day his monumental "journey through Global Music" And the Roots of Rhythm Remain is published, the peerless Joe Boyd visits RBP's Hammersmith HQ to talk about the book — and the 17+…

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E183: Darrell M. McNeill on the Isley Brothers + Isaac Hayes 1:03:54

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Joining us all the way from Santa Barbara for this episode is Darrell M. McNeill, director of operations at the Black Rock Coalition and author of a new 33 1/3 study of the Isley Brothers' mighty 1973 album 3 + 3. We start by asking our guest about his '90s contributions to the Village Voice and his involvement with the B.R.C.. Crediting his dad fo…

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E182: Joe "Mr. C" McEwen on soul music + alt.country + Joe Tex audio 1:18:43

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In this episode we're joined by the esteemed Joe "Mr. C" McEwen, who Zooms in from L.A. to reminisce about his storied career as a writer, DJ and A&R man. We begin in our guest's native Philadelphia, where his teenage mind was blown by a James Brown show in 1966, and follow him up to his adopted Boston. He recalls his early reviews for The Boston P…

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E203: Jonathan Gould on Talking Heads + Otis Redding + Richard Manuel 1:34:40

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E202: Paul Gambaccini on the radio + Rolling Stone + Beyoncé audio 1:05:08

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Rachel Pronger, Peter Suchin, Henry Broome, Elizabeth Fullerton 1:09:57

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E201: Bob Merlis on Warner Bros. + Little Feat + Neil Young audio 1:19:52

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E200: Celebrating 200 episodes of the Rock's Backpages podcast 1:21:27

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Maja and Reuben Fowkes 59:55

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E199: Phil Sutcliffe on Sounds + Gang of Four + Eric Clapton 1:16:11

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E198: Havelock Nelson on Hip Hop + Missy Elliott + Atlantic Records 1:09:39

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Jamie Sutcliffe 58:48

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E197: Siân Pattenden on Select + the Bangles + David Johansen 1:17:11

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E196: Daniel Wolff & Danny Alexander on Dave Marsh + Curtis Mayfield 1:15:44

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Erika Balsom, Ben Burbridge & Dan Kidner 58:26

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E195: Danny Goldberg on Led Zeppelin + Nirvana + Gil Scott-Heron 1:18:59

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E194: Gene Sculatti on San Francisco + the Band's Garth Hudson R.I.P. 57:47

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E193: Michael Goldberg on photography + Taj Mahal + Addicted to Noise 1:12:07

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E192: Pat Kane on Hue & Cry + Sinatra + Chic + '80s Brit soul 1:14:30

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E191: Chris Charlesworth on Melody Maker in the '70s 1:07:23

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Mark Prince 1:00:01

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E190: Simon Garfield on Cher + Beyoncé + Luther Vandross 1:26:28

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E189: Beverley Glick a.k.a. Betty Page on New Romantics + Quincy Jones 1:15:52

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E188: Chris Salewicz on the NME + Supertramp + Amy Winehouse 1:12:17

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Bob Dickinson & Tom Denman 57:20

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E187: Simon Raymonde on Cocteau Twins + Dusty Springfield + Bella Union 1:22:17

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E186: Robert Hilburn on L.A. + his Randy Newman biography 1:12:34

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E185: Andrew Smith on A.I. + Björk + The Notorious B.I.G. 1:18:13

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Michael Kurtz, Lauren Velvick & Sarah E James 56:27

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E184: Joe Boyd on Global Music + Kate & Anna McGarrigle 1:17:09

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E183: Darrell M. McNeill on the Isley Brothers + Isaac Hayes 1:03:54

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E182: Joe "Mr. C" McEwen on soul music + alt.country + Joe Tex audio 1:18:43