Kerrang 69 cover featuring Dee Snider looking like a musketeer.

Neil out of the Young Ones, and some lentil yoghurt.

Cher with a dragon winged helmet and a dragon winged bra and dragon winged pants.

Howard The Duck and Marty McFly's mum. Possibly post coital.

NEW POD! Twisted Sister are on the cover but we're mostly talking about Cher's stint as a valkyrie warrior, Short Circuit and Howard The Duck

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The Force...?

Great- I can't manifest the untold riches I keep thinking about but I can manifest cover versions of drippy "classics"!

In a hotel bar and I've heard the same cover version of Lady in Red four times now. That's a *cover version*. Of *Lady in Red*. *Four times*!

"You're barking up the wrong Crabtree"- the only "joke" I remember from this.

Drop your crime fighting Catholics

(If you count monsters, nazis and monkeys as "criminals").

Presumably this was when I thought it was a real documentary up to the point where Mr Steed showed up

Without Kites Simon Dupree would have quit!

Kites single cover.

We Are The Moles- Part 1 *and* 2!

Gentle Giant.

Simon Dupree and The Big Sound had one hit, Kites, that they hated, but they were wrong cos it's bloody brilliant. Then they secretly recorded as The Moles. Then they transmogrified into Gentle Giant and did songs called things like The Advent of Panurge.
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Sorry Folks! An ad/apology for the delay of the Gorilla lp.

Gorilla album cover. Features a Gorilla (not real).

The Bonzo Dog Doo Dah Band- definitely worth the wait!

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He blessed the corn, popped it, and said, take this, eat, this is my body. And this extra large Sprite is my blood.

Donovan, Sunshine Superman. Dunno which version.

Article on our boy titled "My Magic Flows in My Blood". Also a Bonzo Dog Doo Dah Band ad.

Everyone knows that elfin troubadour Donovan claims to have invented pretty much every aspect of popular music in the second half of the 20th century, but his Greatest Hits are so good, we'll let him off.

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Can I Psych With Madness 1 YouTube video by Can I Pod With Madness

Yes we've got a video!!
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Essential purchases if you're "of a certain age".

Podcast art doing a riff on the Chambers Brothers/Matrix poster.

NME, December 1967.

Donovan, Sunshine Superman.

A big feature on Simon Dupree and The Big Sound.

In an extra special episode, we're looking at the psychedelic world of 1967. Pay no attention to the looming shadow of Engelbert Humperdink, we talk Procol Harum, Donovan and The Moles!

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LEDGE!

Another game I'd heard about, wondered about but never played. Slightly related: Mindshadow, a game I only had the first part of, seemed surreal and mysterious, like The Prisoner. Played the 2nd half many, many years later with an emulator and it turned out to be a fairly conventional thriller.

Just out of shot: Sci Fi Now.

The Micronauts are BACK!

Fucking hell I was just listening to that album at lunch (cos it's mentioned in a Kerrang from Oct '96)

We cover that Tom/Sabbath story in EXCRUCIATING detail in our second ever Pod, here
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Never Say Dai!

Tom Jones and Sabbath announce their Minotaur/Miner Tour.

Flashbomb Fury! Heavy Metal stage pyro banned under shock new EEC ruling.

It's April 1st so I feel duty bound to share these "hilarious" features from Kerrang- Tom Jones joins Black Sabbath and the EU bans pyro at gigs.

McRocklin himself, mcrockin'.

Fun Fact: Thomas McRocklin, pint sized guitar slinging wunderkind star of The BBC's Arena Heavy Metal Special, ended up in an all teen band Bad4Good, which was fronted by Danny Cooksey, better known as the Axl-looking pal of John Connor in Terminator 2.

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I just want to remind you that it was once casually mentioned in an episode of Coronation Street that the person that shouted Judas was Ken Barlow.

For a second I thought this could be Steve Walsh

"Now once upon a time, an old man told me a fable..."

That old man was constantly going about telling fables in the early 70s

Yes- that was the repeat over the New Year. My memory of Heavy Metal Heaven is Elvira going "tonight I've got a couple of biggies for you... no, not *those*".

Bruce, fencing.

Bruce avec codpiece.

Bruce, pontificatin'.

Arena.

Shout out to Bruce Dickinson- singer, pilot, novelist (kinda), fencer, fondler of other men's codpieces and probably the best person to present a documentary about heavy metal in 1989

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Moaning about Arena (but not Tom Araya who is LOVELY).

Metal is intelligent. Discuss.

Where were the Wimp Bands? Probably still annoyed about being referred to as wimps.

STILL RECOVERING FROM SHOCK AFTER WATCHING IT. Thanks "The Sword Freak".

If you can't be bothered to read these letters about HOW TERRIBLE the BBC's Arena Heavy Metal doc was, we read them out on the latest podcast

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Wait, where's the "that's awesome" lady?

Kulture: Into the Arena

Mick Wall says Arena is "a piece of shit"

Complaining about the lack of Page and Elliott.

Complaining about the surplus of Napalm Death.

ARENA AGGRO! Ahead of the broadcast of the documentary, Kerrang weighed in and told everyone what was wrong with it. Fair, but you can't really complain about Napalm Death playing two songs when that lasts about as long as a big sneeze

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