Cally Colomon looks after the legacy of Nick Drake, who died in 1974 but attracts new teenage admirers all the time. Here he talks to David Hepworth about just some of what that involves, including:

…chancers getting in touch with a bogus live recording when they’ve got a tax bill to pay

… film producers wishing to superimpose their image of Nick Drake on everybody else’s

…spending months in the archives finding out exactly what is on every tape

…listening to people who claim they know exactly what happened on a Tuesday sixty years ago

…sorting out the real material from the bogus to put together a set which expands our understanding of the 1969 recording

…responding to people who think all this work should somehow be available for free.

The Making of Five Leaves Left: https://NickDrake.lnk.to/TMOFLL

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Suzi Quatro’s been onstage from the age of 14 as the bassist in the all-girl showband the Pleasure Seekers and the rock act Cradle. And then moved to England in 1971 when signed by Mickie Most. This podcast is a testament to the power of self-belief – she’s got more front than Woolworths! - and the two things her father told her. She’s just started another world tour and talks to us here about …

… how British “island humour” took a while to get used to.

… two deals in a week: “Elektra wanted the second Janis Joplin. Mickie Most wanted the first Suzi Quatro.”

… seeing Elvis on Ed Sullivan aged five and thinking “that’s what I want to do”. And how his comeback changed the clothes she wore.

… why playing a disastrous Sgt Pepper set at a ‘60s festival was a fork in the road.

… knowing she had “the X-Factor, the charisma button”.

… hard times in Crouch End while waiting for a hit and how Chinn & Chapman turned her sound in three-minute singles.

… supporting Slade and Thin Lizzy – and being supported by Kiss and Blue Oyster Cult.

… wise advice her father gave her.

… playing Leather Tuscadero in Happy Days and reunions with Henry Winkler.

… Michael Aspel wandering on from the wings for ‘This Is Your Life’ at the Palladium.

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A rain-splashed, dub-filled, cash-scattering foray into this week’s news and events which happily lands upon …

… meeting Maddy Prior – a Prior engagement? – and the time Steeleye Span showered their audience with £8,000.

… hearing Nick Drake’s demos on a narrowboat in the pitch dark a few hundred feet below London.

… Steve Miller’s cancelled tour, absurdly blamed on the weather.

… who’s older, Lulu or the King? Kim Wilde or William Hague? Neil Tennant or Andy Fraser of Free?

… Bob Marley at the Lyceum in 1975 – the confidence of their pace, the heft of their sound, what the audience wore. And David’s backing vocal on No Woman No Cry.

… the ugliest group in history – “they make Crabby Appleton look like the Walker Brothers”.

… an imagined duet by Rick Astley and David Cameron.

… is Bob Dylan the Tommy Cooper of rock and roll?

… David Ackles and the curse of “the greatest album ever made”.

… the Coldplay ‘Kiss-cam’ clip – “either they’re having an affair or just very shy”.

… the crackle of crime at ‘70s gigs.

… how someone could have seen the opening night of Charlie Chaplin’s Gold Rush and – 50 years later - Bob Marley at the Lyceum.

… why aren’t there still fanzines with names like Ptolemaic Terrascope?

… and birthday guest Gianluca Tramontagna claims Bob Dylan is neither sage, seer or prophet but an immensely comic “song and dance man”.

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