Season 1 Song 5 - Answer the phone Neil: The Cygnet Committee

• Trigger warning - Poor Mental Health

Season 1 Song 5 - Answer the phone Neil- Show notes

• You tube song link:

https://youtu.be/ZZ2VMPPyyck?si=IQUGHBKP1N3NUBYl

• Topics referenced or discussed:
• EMI
• Glastonbury 2000
• Asian Dub Foundation
• Twitter (Pre-Musk)
• Stewart Lee
• Naughty jokes
• Blackstar
• King Crimson (In The Court of the Crimson King)
• Inflation Calculator
• Mike Garson
• Carlos Alomar
• Earl Slick
• Mick Ronson
• E-Street Band (Roy Bittan)
• Rick Wakeman
• Training Vs. Untrained (musicians/actors)
• Daniel Day-Lewis
• Bristol Old Vic Theatre School
• Station to Station
• Lynda La Plante and Mick Jagger
• Gail Ann Dorsey
• Hippie culture
• Bowie’s politics
• Rock Against Racism
• Eric Clapton
• Bob Dylan
• Blank verse
• Bowie the singer
• Five Years
• The Pretty Things are Going to Hell
• Antifa
• Beckenham Arts Lab
• Winstanley
• The Diggers
• The Levellers (not the band!)
• MC-5 ‘Kick Out the Jams’
• Free State
• Somebody Up there Likes Me
• Big Brother
• Moses
• Socialism and Anarchism
• Generational tension
• 9/11 - War on Terror - Invasion of Iraq
• 1980s
• Let’s Dance
• Anthony Newlay
• Brian Eno - Roxy Music (and Social Democracy)
• Feminism in hippe culture

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