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October 6, 2019 by Simon Sweetman

RNZ Feature: Celebrating Fifty Years of Abbey Road

I’m usually on RNZ once a month to have a chat about some new albums. But now and then I present features on the show too.

Last year I had nearly an hour to explore the music of George Harrison.

I followed that up with a chat about Ringo Starr and played some of his best Beatles drum bits and a few of his solo singing hits. That was fun too.R

But then, I had the chance to talk about Prince. What to say about one of my favourite artists of all time? In just 40 minutes. I could talk for, erm, 17 Days about Prince. So I decided to look at some of the side-projects, collaborations and songs he’s written for other people.

And then it was to covers you didn’t know were covers.

Then a big chat about Dolly Parton. And just this week, and most recently, I was asked to put together a list of some songs that were banned from radio. So we talked about those tunes and played them…

Had a bit ramble about Fleetwood Mac recently and then last week, following on from earlier Beatles chats I talked all about Abbey Road in celebration of its 50th Anniversary.

So click that link to hear the chat. And click any of the others to hear those too…or instead…
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