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Planet Porky

281: Flashes of brilliance

Planet Porky

Planet Porky

Personal Journals, News, Society & Culture, News Commentary

3.8646 Ratings

🗓️ 7 December 2022

⏱️ 54 minutes

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Summary

It's another rip-roaring edition of Life on Planet Porky the podcast with Mike Parry and Lesley-Ann Jones!

On today's show they discuss: Fleetwood Mac, Irene Cara, the World Cup, politics v sport, favourite types of shoe, Led Zeppelin, rock star ashes locations being kept a mystery, Christmas Number Ones, Kirsty MacColl, Ulrika and Sven, celebrating wealth, whether you can really tell a liar, Tom Jones' enduring brilliance, and Las Vegas. It's the podcast that you can hear warbling in the valleys, it's Life on Planet Porky. 

Follow the show on Twitter: @PlanetPorky or Mike is: @MikeParry8 while you can find Lesley-Ann: @LAJwriter.

Or you can email us questions or comments to: [email protected]. We'd love to hear from you!

Transcript

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0:00.0

Okay, folks, thank you very much indeed for tuning in once again to life on planet Porky, the adventures, the excitement, the wherewithal of myself, the Porkmeister, and of course, the Rock Chick-Chic writer extraordinaire, Ms.lie and jones miss jones i have to say

0:41.4

um and the story's been well told but you probably tell it and could have told it better than anybody

0:47.9

else that you have literally been all over the world on telling us all all all us huge fans of Fleetwood Mac, the real

0:57.5

story behind that wonderful, genius, great song, a singer, singer-writer woman, Christine McVey,

1:03.7

I didn't know until I started hearing what you were saying and reading what you were saying

1:08.9

that you knew us so well.

1:18.1

Yeah, it's a long time ago, you know, back in the 80s when I was posted out to the West Coast of America to cover primarily rock and pop music was for you magazine, actually, the Mail on Sunday

1:24.5

colour supplement. And in those days,

1:27.5

you know,

1:27.8

we didn't have the managers,

1:29.3

the agents,

1:30.2

the publicists,

1:31.2

the hangers on.

1:32.3

And journalists actually could get close to

1:35.5

celebrities,

1:37.3

rock superstars,

1:38.2

and could befriend them,

1:39.6

and could get invited

1:40.7

up to their house for dinner

1:41.7

and up to their pool

1:42.9

for a swim and all that kind of thing. And it really wasn't that unusual. People seem to think nowadays that that is the

1:49.8

most unthinkable thing that could ever have happened. But it actually did happen. And I had a lot of

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