Bob Stanley

Chicory Tip.

I'm gonna start [laughs] by reading Bob Stanley, who we've talked about before, wrote this enormous book, Yeah Yeah Yeah, recommend it.

Anybody who's interested in pop music read it as a history of pop music through the ages and what have you.

And he [laughs] he talks about I Feel Love, and he says, "Here was the future, and it seems to me that we still haven't caught up with I Feel Love and still don't understand it."

... maybe I should do...

Oh, no, I'll let Bob Stanley do it.

Hmm.

Maybe I should do a comp of all those awful records from 1976.

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Joining me for this episode is Bob Stanley.

Bob is an award-winning, critically acclaimed writer and pop culture historian.

Since 1990, he has been one-third of the group Cinétienne, who embark on their farewell tour in September 2026.

There's a compilation album waiting, the ghost number ones.

Yeah.

So a reminder that The Shadows, the definitive story published by New Modern and written by Bob Stanley is released on the 24th of September and available in all good bookshops.

And if you are fortunate enough to have a ticket to go and see Sinetian on the final tour, then I'm sure you're in for a treat.

Okay.

Well, first of all, this week I read, uh, Bob Stanley of the band Saint Etienne once described Holly Johnson as looking like a cruel mouse.

[laughs] And now that's what I think.

[laughs]

We've talked about this too.

And I think we talked about in the last episode where I mentioned, I read that article by Bob Stanley and record collector magazine.

And I was so refreshed to read someone who was just basically talking about stuff he didn't like.

And it was stuff like Nick cave.

But you go to see so often small shows these days and it's like – Nick Cave but all by himself and people are like oh that was amazing it was just such an intimate show and it's like yeah they can't afford to bring all those band members anymore this is not as good of a show it was a way better show when there was 30 people on stage

speaking of uh uh Uh, I was just reading, I think it's record collector magazine and Bob Stanley every now and then writes for Bob Stanley is a very well-known, which shouldn't say very well-known, but he's a well known and respected rock music writer who was in the band St. who I think just broke up after sort of like the Hollies.

Um, and he was, it was refreshing.

He wrote a short article.