Today’s a very special day for our founding wizard Rebel Rikkit.
He’s notched up his first half century and as he raises his bat to acknowledge the polite applause of the crowd, the 2 junior wizards thought this event should be commemorated in song.
Robert Pollard’s Guide To The Late 60s podcast- 013 Horizontal (Bee Gees) / The Graham Gouldman Thing (Graham Gouldman)In which we get our Massive Chew Sets around another Bee Gees album and the debut from future 10cc-er Gouldman.
- 012 Odessa (Bee Gees)The relative heights of adult humans and Christmas trees are amongst many topics discussed as the red flock cover of Bee Gees’ 1969 double album Odessa steps into view.
- 011 Odessey and Oracle (The Zombies) / 1st (Bee Gees)Bulbous swirling fonts and psychedelic imagery a-plenty on the covers. But what will the Wizards make of the music on this pair of albums recorded in Swinging London™ during the Summer of Love™
- 010 Butterfly (The Hollies) / Forever Changes (Love)Watch the snot cake against your pants and turn into crystal as we discuss 2 albums released in November 1967.
- 009 The Smile Sessions (The Beach Boys)We’re giving you excitations and favourite vege-tables as we listen to the most notorious “lost” album of the 60s.
- 008 Pet Sounds (The Beach Boys) / Song Cycle (Van Dyke Parks)Out there having fun in the warm California sun as we explore Rolling Stone magazine’s second best album ever and one of the most expensively recorded flops of the 1960s.
- 013 Horizontal (Bee Gees) / The Graham Gouldman Thing (Graham Gouldman)
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He doesn’t sound that old… but then maybe this is just a cheeky jape from Chorizo…
Oh, he is very much that old. It’s the joie de vivre that’s fooling you.