807. Dylan, Lennon, Marx & God (with Jon Stewart PhD)

Luke's ENGLISH Podcast - Learn British English with Luke Thompson

Luke Thompson

Language, Vocabulary, Teaching, Pronunciation, Accent, Comedy, British, Education, Learn, Uk, London, Grammar, Language Learning, Listening, Learning, Podcast, Speaker

4.7 • 1.1K Ratings

🗓️ 18 January 2023

⏱️ 67 minutes

🔗️ Recording | iTunes | RSS

🧾️ Download transcript

Summary

A conversation about two legends of contemporary popular culture - Bob Dylan and John Lennon, with pop-star academic Jon Stewart (guitarist in The Wedding Present and Sleeper).

👉 Episode page https://wp.me/p4IuUx-sJE

📖 Get Jon's book here https://a.co/d/fPBgTel (other bookshops are available)

Jon Stewart is an interesting mix. He is both a university lecturer and a pop star. He runs a Masters Degree course in Music Business and Popular Music Practice at the BIMM Institute in London and he also plays guitar for legendary British group The Wedding Present, AND classic 'Britpop' band Sleeper. So, Jon knows all about the music business from both a personal and academic point of view.

In this conversation I ask Jon about his new book "Dylan, Lennon, Marx and God" which is an amazing dual-biography of John Lennon and Bob Dylan, two of the most significant figures in contemporary popular culture.

Jon talks about the way Dylan and Lennon used language in their work, the references they make to the culture they grew up in, including their spiritual and political views.

Jon also talks about his time as a musician, including working with Elvis Costello and George Michael, and a funny story about John Lennon's "Imagine piano".

I hope you find this conversation as fascinating as I did. If you like it, consider getting a copy of Jon's book!

Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Transcript

Click on a timestamp to play from that location

0:00.0	You're listening to Luke's English podcast. For more information,
0:07.2	visit teacherloop.co.uk.uk.uk.uk.uk.
0:10.0	UK. Okay. for another episode of my podcast. This time in this episode I'm presenting you with a
0:26.0	conversation with a guest and that guest is John Stewart who is a university lecturer from Sheffield in England.
0:35.0	Before we jump into the conversation,
0:37.0	I think I should give you a bit of an introduction here
0:40.0	to give you some context and comments to help you follow this episode better.
0:44.8	I'll try and keep it short but I need to just give you some context and stuff.
0:48.7	Just in case you don't know, this is a podcast for learners of English around the world.
0:54.0	Okay, I'm an English teacher and I help people learn English around the world
0:58.6	by presenting them with content to listen to. Okay, so a bit of support in this introduction will help my listeners to follow this conversation better.
1:09.0	These are not comments about specific words or phrases, but just some general information
1:15.0	to help place you in the right zone for this conversation, which in turn should help you learn
1:20.7	more English from it. Okay? So Dr John Stewart PhD to give him his proper title
1:28.5	runs a master's degree course in business and popular music practice at the BIM Institute in London.
1:37.6	That's the British and Irish Modern Music Institute, the BIM Institute. So he runs a master's degree in music business and popular music practice there.
1:50.0	So John is an academic who specializes in popular music studies, but also he is a pop star himself.
1:58.0	John currently plays guitar for a British group called The Wedding Present and if you're a big fan of
2:05.0	British music from the 90s then you'll probably have heard of the wedding present
2:09.2	they're sort of a
2:15.0	legendary group in the UK music scene. And also John was a founding member of a band called Sleeper,
2:19.0	who were one of the so-called Britpop bands of the 1990s. I remember seeing Sleeper on the TV
	...

Please login to see the full transcript.

Previous episode | Next episode

Disclaimer: The podcast and artwork embedded on this page are from Luke Thompson, and are the property of its owner and not affiliated with or endorsed by Tapesearch.

Generated transcripts are the property of Luke Thompson and are distributed freely under the Fair Use doctrine. Transcripts generated by Tapesearch are not guaranteed to be accurate.