Podcast appearances and mentions of Jerome Flynn

Join The Watchers as we discuss the sixth and seventh episodes titled “The Mountain Teeth of Monsters” and "A Dream and a Memory." #1923tv #YellowstoneTV 1923 (2022) is an American neo-Western drama television series starring Harrison Ford, Helen Mirren, Brandon Sklenar, Darren Mann, James Badge Dale, Michelle Randolph, Jerome Flynn, Julia Schlaepfer and Isabel May.Subscribe, rate and review! Follow The Watchers in the Basement on social media! Use #WatchersBasement to comment about the show!facebook.com/watchersbasementtwitter.com/WatchBasement instagram.com/watchersbasementthreads.net/@watchersbasementanchor.fm/watchersbasement

pWotD Episode 2887: L2: Empuraan Welcome to Popular Wiki of the Day, spotlighting Wikipedia's most visited pages, giving you a peek into what the world is curious about today.With 191,865 views on Friday, 28 March 2025 our article of the day is L2: Empuraan.L2: Empuraan (transl. Overlord; stylised as L2: E. M. P. U. R. A. A. N – Lucifer 2) is a 2025 Indian Malayalam-language action thriller film directed by Prithviraj Sukumaran and written by Murali Gopy. It was jointly produced by Antony Perumbavoor, Gokulam Gopalan, and A. Subaskaran through Aashirvad Cinemas, Sree Gokulam Movies, and Lyca Productions, respectively. It is the second installment in the Lucifer trilogy and follows the events of its prequel Lucifer. The film stars Mohanlal, Prithviraj Sukumaran, Abhimanyu Singh, Tovino Thomas, Manju Warrier, Andrea Tivadar, Jerome Flynn, Indrajith Sukumaran, Eriq Ebouaney, and Suraj Venjaramoodu.Lucifer was conceived as a three-film franchise from its inception. The success of the first film led to the decision to proceed with the second instalment in the series. L2: Empuraan was announced in June 2019, and production, originally planned for mid-2020, faced delays due to the COVID-19 pandemic. Murali took the opportunity to expand the scale and scope of L2: Empuraan. Although it maintains continuity, the film was conceived as a standalone entry, not requiring viewers to have seen the first film. The screenplay was finalised in July 2022, and pre-production began the following month. Lyca joined in September 2023, marking their venture in Malayalam cinema. In March 2025, Gopalan joined as a co-producer, following financial disputes with Lyca. The film's original soundtrack was composed by Deepak Dev.Principal photography took place from October 2023 to December 2024, spanning 145 days across sporadic schedules in India, the United Kingdom, the United States, and the United Arab Emirates. L2: Empuraan was released in theatres worldwide on 27 March 2025 in standard, IMAX, and EPIQ formats, making it the first Malayalam film to be released in IMAX and EPIQ.This recording reflects the Wikipedia text as of 01:57 UTC on Saturday, 29 March 2025.For the full current version of the article, see L2: Empuraan on Wikipedia.This podcast uses content from Wikipedia under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike License.Visit our archives at wikioftheday.com and subscribe to stay updated on new episodes.Follow us on Mastodon at @wikioftheday@masto.ai.Also check out Curmudgeon's Corner, a current events podcast.Until next time, I'm neural Ayanda.

Send us a textKathy and Amit ‪@D54pod‬  react to the epic trailer for L2E Empuraan, L2: Empuraan (also known as L2E) is an upcoming Indian Malayalam-language action thriller film directed by Prithviraj Sukumaran, written by Murali Gopy and jointly produced by Aashirvad Cinemas, Sree Gokulam Movies and Lyca Productions. The second installment in a planned trilogy, it is a follow-up to Lucifer (2019). The film stars Mohanlal, alongside an ensemble cast consisting of Prithviraj Sukumaran, Tovino Thomas, Indrajith Sukumaran, Manju Warrier, Abhimanyu Singh, Eriq Ebouaney, Jerome Flynn, and Suraj Venjaramoodu.Support the show

Join The Watchers as we discuss the fourth and fifth episodes titled “Journey the Rivers of Iron” and "Only Gunshots to Guide Us." #1923tv #YellowstoneTV 1923 (2022) is an American neo-Western drama television series starring Harrison Ford, Helen Mirren, Brandon Sklenar, Darren Mann, James Badge Dale, Michelle Randolph, Jerome Flynn, Julia Schlaepfer and Isabel May.Subscribe, rate and review! Follow The Watchers in the Basement on social media! Use #WatchersBasement to comment about the show!facebook.com/watchersbasementtwitter.com/WatchBasement instagram.com/watchersbasementthreads.net/@watchersbasementanchor.fm/watchersbasement

Alexandra runs into trouble while traveling alone. Join The Watchers as we discuss the third episode titled “Wrap Thee in Terror.” #1923tv #YellowstoneTV 1923 (2022) is an American neo-Western drama television series starring Harrison Ford, Helen Mirren, Brandon Sklenar, Darren Mann, James Badge Dale, Michelle Randolph, Jerome Flynn, Julia Schlaepfer and Isabel May.Subscribe, rate and review! Follow The Watchers in the Basement on social media! Use #WatchersBasement to comment about the show!facebook.com/watchersbasementtwitter.com/WatchBasement instagram.com/watchersbasementthreads.net/@watchersbasementanchor.fm/watchersbasement

Mother Nature makes her presence known as the second season of the Yellowstone origin series continues. Join The Watchers as we discuss the second episode titled “The Rapist Is Winter.” #1923tv #YellowstoneTV 1923 (2022) is an American neo-Western drama television series starring Harrison Ford, Helen Mirren, Brandon Sklenar, Darren Mann, James Badge Dale, Michelle Randolph, Jerome Flynn, Julia Schlaepfer and Isabel May.Subscribe, rate and review! Follow The Watchers in the Basement on social media! Use #WatchersBasement to comment about the show!facebook.com/watchersbasementtwitter.com/WatchBasement instagram.com/watchersbasementthreads.net/@watchersbasementanchor.fm/watchersbasement

The Yellowstone origin series 1923 returns with the Duttons facing new challenges and dangers. Join The Watchers as we break down the first episode of the second season of the hit Paramount+ show. #1923tv #YellowstoneTV 1923 (2022) is an American neo-Western drama television series starring Harrison Ford, Helen Mirren, Brandon Sklenar, Darren Mann, James Badge Dale, Michelle Randolph, Jerome Flynn, Julia Schlaepfer and Isabel May.Subscribe, rate and review! Follow The Watchers in the Basement on social media! Use #WatchersBasement to comment about the show!facebook.com/watchersbasementtwitter.com/WatchBasement instagram.com/watchersbasementthreads.net/@watchersbasementanchor.fm/watchersbasement

In this episode, we're shining a spotlight on Soldier Soldier, the iconic 90s British drama that brought the camaraderie, challenges, and triumphs of military life into living rooms across the nation. From its gripping storylines to its memorable characters, this series gave viewers a rare and emotional glimpse into the lives of soldiers when the uniform comes off. Join us as we delve into what made Soldier Soldier a cultural phenomenon and why it still resonates with fans today. We'll explore how the show struck the perfect balance between action-packed moments and heartfelt drama, offering an authentic portrayal of the sacrifices and struggles faced by service members. From the realism of the military exercises to the personal battles fought off the battlefield, Soldier Soldier proved it wasn't just another TV drama—it was a groundbreaking look at life in the armed forces. Of course, we couldn't discuss Soldier Soldier without diving into its unforgettable cast. We'll take a trip down memory lane with Robson Green and Jerome Flynn, whose on-screen chemistry and stirring rendition of “Unchained Melody” turned them into household names. Their music career may have been unexpected, but it became an integral part of the show's legacy, blending entertainment with chart-topping success. We'll also reflect on how Soldier Soldier paved the way for future military dramas, influencing everything from character development to storytelling techniques. Its impact on the television landscape was undeniable, and its enduring popularity proves that it still holds a special place in the hearts of viewers. So, grab your remote and march with us through the highs and lows of this classic series. Whether you're a die-hard fan or discovering the show for the first time, this episode is your perfect briefing on all things Soldier Soldier. Talk2TheHand is an independent throwback podcast run by husband and wife, Jimmy and Beth. Obsessed with 90s nostalgia and 90s celebrities, we'll rewind the years and take you back to the greatest era of our lives.   New episodes bursting with nostalgia of the 90s released on Tuesdays. Please subscribe to our podcast and we'll keep you gooey in 1990s love. Find us on Twitter @talk2thehandpod or email us at jimmy@talk2thehand.co.uk or beth@talk2thehand.co.uk

Alex Frost is the vicar of St Matthew's Church in Burnley, host of the God Cast and author of 'Our Daily Bread, Argos To The Altar A Priest Story' order here https://www.brownsbfs.co.uk/Product/Frost-Father-Alex/Our-daily-bread---from-Argos-to-the-altar/9780008556556 Follow Fr Alex on X @alexdjfrost Phoebe Smith is an adventurer and multi-award-winning travel writer (most recently Sustainable Travel Article of the Year: Travel Media Awards 2023), photographer, presenter and broadcaster (specialising in adventure, sustainable travel, walking, family adventure and wildlife conservation). She has presented segments on TV including BBC Countryfile, BBC Breakfast, C5 Saturday Live, ITV's Britain's Best Walks and BBC Breakfast. She is Sleep Storyteller-in-Residence at Calm where her stories have been listened to over 30 million times and been narrated by Stephen Fry, Joanna Lumley, Cillian Murphy, Jerome Flynn, Bindi Irwin and Danai Gurira to name a few. She is also the author of 10 books with her next one – Wayfarer: Love, Loss and Life on Britain's Ancient Paths – out in March 2024 with Harper Collins. She is also the co-founder of the #WeTwo Foundation, a charity that empowers underprivileged young people through carbon negative expeditions.

What I Learned From Interviewing 100+ Artists. Welcome to In The Moment with me, Alex Manzi, your friendly neighborhood mind sherpa. This is a special episode of the podcast for me. We're closing soon on 300 episode and I wanted to reflect an all the interviews that I made from 2017 until now. I've interviewed for this pod (that was initially called "The Dreamers' Disease") 100+ artists and creatives and I learned a lot from it. I've had known musicians like Wretch 32, Gabrielle Aplin, Sinead Harnett, Tom Grennan, Sam Tompkins. We've talked about depression, adhd, mindfulness routines, what we pass on to our sons. I've talked to the famous podcaster Dr. Rangan Chatterjee and he remembered the pain of losing his father and how that changed his life. I've even had the pleasure to speak even to Jerome Flynn, which famously portrayed Bronn in the TV show Game Of Thrones, and with him we had a deep chat about acting, art and the struggle of many people living in today's world.  I feel grateful to have had all these amazing interviews here. In this episode I try to recap everything I learned from it.  00:00 Intro 00:49 I started in 2017. 02:33 Everyone has a story.  05:46 Experience of pain. 10:04 Everyone wants the same thing.  14:07 We can bring our dreams to reality.  17:34 People give up. 18:56 Recap and DM me! What do you think? Let me know, DM me at @iamalexmanzi and come join the community

#453 Unchained Melody - Richard has got very angry with a cold caller - was he in there right? His guest is brilliant stand up and creator of new TV comedy “The Change”, Bridget Christie. In an explosive opening they discuss why Richard isn't presenting the Masked Singer (amongst much else) and why he is evil for eating chocolate buttons, but then things calm down a bit as they discuss Bridget's major TV debut, whether men do an equal share of household duties and the app that might help, why there are so few comedy shows about middle aged women, how getting older can be liberating and how amazing it is to have a channel and production team that let you get on with your vision. Plus working with Jerome Flynn and what it was like for Richard to introduce him on Top of the Pops. Also the primeval dance with Greg Davies and the extraordinary power of Taskmaster and getting to appear on Ghosts.See Bridget in Edinburgh  https://tickets.edfringe.com/whats-on/bridget-christie-who-am-iAnd on tour https://www.bridgetchristie.co.uk/gigs/And watch The Change here https://www.channel4.com/programmes/the-changeCome and see RHLSTP live - all dates and confirmed guests here http://richardherring.com/rhlstpSUPPORT THE SHOW!Watch our TWITCH CHANNELSee extra content at our WEBSITE Become a member at https://plus.acast.com/s/rhlstp. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Cela fait toujours quelque chose de savoir qu'une série annonce à son casting Harrison Ford et Helen Mirren. Notre esprit les relie forcément à l'élégance, la classe, le cinéma. Deux noms assez imprévisibles aussi, avec des apparitions allant de Fast & Furious à The Queen pour la seconde et Star Wars à Shrinking pour le premier. Alors qu'est-ce qu'on pouvait attendre de leurs personnages dans 1923 ? C'est Elsa Dutton (Isabel May dans 1883) qui démarre le premier épisode en narratrice : Jacob Dutton (son oncle donc) a déménagé dans le Montana il y a des années pour sauver la famille de son frère John et a construit un empire. Il porte son chapeau de cowboy bien enfoncé sur son front, fronce les sourcils et gère son ranch malgré les difficultés naissances. Quant à Cara Dutton, avec son accent irlandais, c'est la maîtresse sévère des lieux qui semble trop intelligente pour servir de femme-trophée. Pour finir sur le point généalogie, Jacob serait donc l'arrière-arrière grand-oncle du John le 3e du nom joué par Kevin Costner dans Yellowstone. Bref, telle est la vision du ranch des Dutton, dans les grandes plaines du Montana. 1923 a obtenu officiellement une saison 2, et continuera d'explorer la montée de l'expansion occidentale, la prohibition et la Grande Dépression. Il faudra se contenter pour le moment des 8 premiers épisodes sur Paramount+ de la série de Taylor Sheridan, à partir du 2 avril. https://youtu.be/v88e9Dwnqo0 Les Dutton vont devoir faire face à d'autres fermiers, notamment un éleveur de moutons campé par Jerome Flynn, ou encore un autre grand propriétaire sous les traits de Timothy Dalton. Que dire de la condition féminine ? Pour s'en sortir, il va falloir se marier. Vous l'avez compris, 1923 est une série de prestige avec deux grands noms du grand écran à l'alchimie folle, mais également des personnages secondaires aux visages familiers. Si vous aimez les grands espaces, la série de Taylor Sheridan sera un plaisir pour les yeux. La géographie de la série s'étend au-delà des limites du Montana et réussit à capturer l'Amérique avec l'industrialisation naissante, mais aussi les campagnes lointaines et sauvages d'Afrique. 1923 ne se détourne pas de la violence non plus, avec des scènes difficiles à supporter pour les plus sensibles, notamment d'agression sur un personnage des Premières Nations. [bs_show url="1923-yellowstone"] N'oublions pas que le prochain spin-off de cet univers mettra en vedette David Oyelowo dans le rôle de Bass Reeves, le véritable Marshall noir qui a repoussé les limites de son statut, à l'ère de 1883.

Already thrilled that, director of Unforgotten, Andy Wilson had emailed us to say he'd listened to and enjoyed the podcast, we were doubly thrilled that he agreed to join us for an interview. In addition to going behind the scenes on the brilliant ITV cold case drama, Andy tells us how the X-Files played a major role in his career, about working with Jimmy McGovern on the ground-breaking show Cracker and how much he loves working with talented writers, like Chris Lang on Unforgotten. We find out what shows Andy enjoys watching and touch on his time directing Ripper Street with Matthew Macfadyen and Jerome Flynn. There is a minor spoiler about Unforgotten season 3, but hey, that came out in 2018! We can't wait for you to hear our thoughts on the latest episode and for you to give us yours too. You can find and follow us on all the socials @tvdnapod  You can also email us on tvdnapod@gmail.com  And, if you listen on Spotify, check out our poll below. You can also catch-up on our Ted Lasso and Mandalorian specials and weekly spoiler-free Watchlist episodes covering what else we're watching and what's coming soon. Our back catalogue of shows includes Happy Valley, Line of Duty and Better Call Saul. Coming soon - Succession and Yellowjackets! We're on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, Google Podcasts, Pocket Casts, Anchor, Breaker and Radio Public so be sure to subscribe to the pod and please leave us a review.  Thanks as always to JComp for our logo and Roman Senyk Music for our theme.  Adam, Grace, Neil, Chloe, Damo and Izzi

Chris and Taylor review the Western drama series "1923," a "Yellowstone" prequel series created by Taylor Sheridan.  The series follows a generation of the Dutton family in 1923, during a time of various hardships including Prohibition, drought, and the early stages of the Great Depression.  The series stars Harrison Ford, Helen Mirren, Brandon Sklenar, Julia Schlaepfer, Jerome Flynn, Darren Mann, Isabel May, Brian Geraghty, Aminah Nieves, Michelle Randolph and Timothy Dalton.Follow us on:Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/thepotentialpodcast/Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/thepotentialpodcast/Twitter: https://twitter.com/thepotentialpodThanks to our sponsor: Let'sGetCheckedGet 25% off a health test at trylgc.com/potential and enter the code POTENTIAL25

The feud between Whitfield, Banner, and the Duttons reaches the point of no return. Spencer and Alexandra encounter a different kind of peril on their passenger ship home. Marshalls track Teonna, who finds a rare respite of hope. Join the Watchers as we review episode eight of Yellowstone's prequel, 1923. #1923 #ParamountNetwork 1923 (2022) is an American neo-Western drama television series starring Harrison Ford, Helen Mirren, Brandon Sklenar, Darren Mann, James Badge Dale, Michelle Randolph, and Jerome Flynn. Subscribe, rate and review! Follow The Watchers in the Basement on social media! Use #WatchersBasement to comment about the show! facebook.com/watchersbasement twitter.com/WatchBasement instagram.com/watchersbasement

Banner is met with a surprise, as the feud with the Duttons takes an unexpected turn. Captain Shipley says his goodbyes to Spencer and Alexandra as the next leg of their journey commences. Teonna continues to fight for her safety. Join the Watchers we review episode seven of Yellowstone's prequel, 1923. #1923 #ParamountNetwork 1923 (2022) is an American neo-Western drama television series starring Harrison Ford, Helen Mirren, Brandon Sklenar, Darren Mann, James Badge Dale, Michelle Randolph, and Jerome Flynn. Subscribe, rate and review! Follow The Watchers in the Basement on social media! Use #WatchersBasement to comment about the show! facebook.com/watchersbasement twitter.com/WatchBasement instagram.com/watchersbasement

In the wake of the tugboat crash, the next step in Spencer and Alexandra's fate is revealed. Cara and McDowell begin hiring new Livestock Officers. Teonna covers her tracks. Join the Watchers we review episode six of Yellowstone's prequel, 1923. #1923 #ParamountNetwork 1923 (2022) is an American neo-Western drama television series starring Harrison Ford, Helen Mirren, Brandon Sklenar, Darren Mann, James Badge Dale, Michelle Randolph, and Jerome Flynn. Subscribe, rate and review! Follow The Watchers in the Basement on social media! Use #WatchersBasement to comment about the show! facebook.com/watchersbasement twitter.com/WatchBasement instagram.com/watchersbasement

Spencer and Alexandra begin their long journey back to Montana. Banner and Whitfield plot their next move to control the valley. Teanna goes to great lengths to secure her freedom and safety. Join the Watchers we review episode five of Yellowstone's prequel, 1923. #1923 #ParamountNetwork 1923 (2022) is an American neo-Western drama television series starring Harrison Ford, Helen Mirren, Brandon Sklenar, Darren Mann, James Badge Dale, Michelle Randolph, and Jerome Flynn. Subscribe, rate and review! Follow The Watchers in the Basement on social media! Use #WatchersBasement to comment about the show! facebook.com/watchersbasement twitter.com/WatchBasement instagram.com/watchersbasement

In the wake of the attack, Cara and the Duttons carefully plan heir next move. Spencer and Alexandra enjoy the pleasure of Zanzibar, unaware of what has happened back home. Banner Creighton seeks a powerful ally. Join the Watchers we review episode four of Yellowstone's prequel, 1923. #1923 #ParamountNetwork 1923 (2022) is an American neo-Western drama television series starring Harrison Ford, Helen Mirren, Brandon Sklenar, Darren Mann, James Badge Dale, Michelle Randolph, and Jerome Flynn. Subscribe, rate and review! Follow The Watchers in the Basement on social media! Use #WatchersBasement to comment about the show! facebook.com/watchersbasement twitter.com/WatchBasement instagram.com/watchersbasement

E2: "Nature's Empty Throne" Jacob and the Yellowstone cowboys save one of their own before deciding their next move. Teonna continues to endure at the hands of Sister Mary. Cara and Emma discuss Elizabeth and Jack. Alexandra makes a bold decision. E3: "The War Has Come Home" Jacob, Cara, and the Duttons go into town to take care of some business, and pleasure. Spencer and Alexandra decide they won't waste any time, and later find new danger. The Duttons realize the feud with the sheepherders is far from over. Join the Watchers we review episodes two and three of Yellowstone's prequel, 1923. #1923 #ParamountNetwork 1923 (2022) is an American neo-Western drama television series starring Harrison Ford, Helen Mirren, Brandon Sklenar, Darren Mann, James Badge Dale, Michelle Randolph, and Jerome Flynn. Subscribe, rate and review! Follow The Watchers in the Basement on social media! Use #WatchersBasement to comment about the show! facebook.com/watchersbasement twitter.com/WatchBasement instagram.com/watchersbasement

The Duttons face a new set of challenges in the early 20th century, including the rise of Western expansion, Prohibition and the Great Depression. Join the Watchers we review the premiere of Yellowstone's prequel, 1923. #1923 #ParamountNetwork 1923 (2022) is an American neo-Western drama television series starring Harrison Ford, Helen Mirren, Brandon Sklenar, Darren Mann, James Badge Dale, Michelle Randolph, and Jerome Flynn. Subscribe, rate and review! Follow The Watchers in the Basement on social media! Use #WatchersBasement to comment about the show! facebook.com/watchersbasement twitter.com/WatchBasement instagram.com/watchersbasement

The cast of 1923, the prequel to the highly popular series Yellowstone, is getting bigger and better. Game of Thrones star Jerome Flynn is set to star in the series which will be headlined by Hollywood veterans Harrison Ford and Helen Mirren. Flynn will play Banner Creighton, the Scottish leader of the local sheepmen in the series that follows a new generation of the Dutton family during the early 20th century.

It is time loyal listener for another super-stuffed episode of this pop-culture podcast.  This episode of Nick Nack Goes to the Movies is all about the Black Mirror franchise.  In the spirit of long lasting franchise marathon binges, we have given this the American Horror Story treatment.  I got through all 22 movies/episodes in two weeks and here we are.  If you want to be horrified by technology that seems far off, but shockingly isn't, if you want to reflect on the world that is, or if you just want to feel some small sense of overwhelming dread, have I got an anthology series for you.  The mini-movies are the best thing for fans of a certain type of horror, and while most of these are dark, and depressing, as they should be, they are all well made and a few are actually pretty fun.  Some may be too weird, dark, or messed up, but nothing will be as weird as Men of course.  And the cast of these is stacked, there will be some actor that you will be really excited to see in at least one or a few of these.  It could be Hannah John Kamen, Jerome Flynn, Anthony Mackie, John Hamm, Haley Atwell, Bryce Dallas Howard, Daniel Kaluuya, Yahah Abdul Mateen the second, Miley Cyrus, or someone I didn't mention here yet!  MCU, Game of Thrones, James Bond, and more mainstays are littered in these 22 episodes.   So go watch these episodes on Netflix now, and make sure to let me know your favorites and Letterboxd order/rankings.  Let me know on social at Nick Nack Movies or NickNack_IC on every social platform including Twitter, Instagram, Tik Tok, and more!

Sara Jolena gives an overview on what you can expect from the 14 episodes of the first season of The ReMemembering and ReEnchanting podcast.The song featured in this episode is titled, Song for the Winter written by Maggie O'Connor and was performed in a cave in Wales by some of Sara Jolena's students. The singers include:  Gayano Shaw, Jerome Flynn, Emma Collins, Jason Stewart, Diane Lester, Clara Clay, Jude Butler, and Lis O'Kelley. Released Earth Day, 2022. For more episodes that did not make it into this season, please visit our podcast's website, located at our home website. Support the showLearn more about Sara Jolena Wolcott and Sequoia SamanvayaMusic Title: Both of Us Music by: madiRFAN Don't forget to "like" and share this episode!

Spoilers, profanity, Jaime x Brienne. This episode we’re full of realizations: Jerome Flynn pretty much owns the role of Bronn. GRRM is wrong (tune in to find out why), but we totally are the mountain clans, packing up a goat in our inventory for the road. Tyrion appears to be a morning person, but probably not much of a goat milker. Mord should not go to Casterly to get what Tyrion owes him. And in keeping up with the goat theme of this ep, GRRM probably has a greasy goat beard. Game of Thrones. A Song Ice and Fire. A Game of Thrones - Tyrion V. Encore of Episode 188 - originally recorded in 2017. Close The Door And Come Here - Episode 344              

This is a series with a mini-plot, multiple characters that each pursue their own storyline but come together for a larger story arc. In this first season of Game of Thrones you’ll see multiple storylines weaving together. But the value at stake is power - the clue is in the name: the Game of Thrones. This is closely linked to the action genre with its values of life and death. And you’ll see other genres laced throughout which we will share in our shownotes. One sentence review from the editors?Randall: This is really one of my favorite series, and the screenwriters did such a great job with the first season.  It’s a great example of how to write a screenplay from a really excellently written book series.  And the author (George R. R. Martin) did such a great job connecting the plotlines throughout the books/ seasons.  This had to take so much planning, Harry Potter level planning.Mel: Awesome fantasy story masterpiece with very deep, three dimensional characters, an amazing story and throughout plotline, as well as the best title music and video.Parul: It is Society Genre combined Action at its best, everybody wants power and everybody will die. To read all the show notes and get access to downloadable 6 core question files go to www.storygrid.com or www.sgshowrunners.com

In this episode we discuss everything Emma. (with a period) : the story, the cast, trailer parks, and much more...Sam and Rayce created a four movie marathon recorded their findings. For the sake of of brevity we have broken the marathon into four parts, corresponding with the four movies:a terrible movie - Battlefield Eartha great movie - The GodfatherRayce's pick that Sam will hate: Bulletproof MonkSam's pick that Rayce will hate: EmmaBe on the lookout for our next episode on Avatar: the last airbender. We are very excited to be headed back to northern water tribe.check out our websitehttps://whatwerewesaying.buzzsprout.com/follow us ontwitter @wwwspodyoutube https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCxjhoTr2rAYJt5V2SWeUXRA

July's podcast also features all the latest news and updates from Viva!, including the launch of our gripping documentary , and a catch up with Jerome Flynn — Viva! patron and presenter of HOGWOOD. FIND OUT MORE - It's finally here! The launch of HOGWOOD: a modern horror story on , and . Plus wise words from Jerome Flynn, presenter and Viva! patron. - Exclusive interview with Seth Tibbott, founder of the plant-based protein company, . - July cookery inspiration comes from ’s Maryanne Hall, with summertime advice for vegans at socially-distanced BBQs. - Lex Rigby, Viva! campaigns manager, interviews an exclusive interview with Rich Hardy, veteran undercover investigator, on the launch of his new book and reflections on his life as an undercover investigator. - Lex also gives behind the scenes look at Viva!'s own shocking of two pig farms supplying Morrisons. -  Gavin Chappell-Bates hosts his regular dedicated music feature. This month he interviews (aka Queen V), vegan singer-songwriter. ABOUT OUR SHOW You can hear this show via Apple Podcasts, Google Podcasts and on lots of other apps and websites. Spread the word! Don't forget to share us on Facebook and Twitter! Get the latest episode every month, straight to your mobile device or computer. It's automatic and completely free.  Copyright owned by Viva! Bristol 2020. Not for re-use without our written agreement. All featured music and content used by permission. Produced by Helen Wilson for Viva!.

June’s podcast features all the news and updates from Viva! – including news from charity founder and director, Juliet Gellatley, on the new campaign, 3 in 4 and an exclusive interview with Game of Thrones actor and Viva! patron, Jerome Flynn. FIND OUT MORE - All you need to know about continuing to helping animals and promote veganism during lockdown, from the Viva! campaigns team - Viva! founder & director, Juliet Gellatley updates us on the highlighting that 3 in 4 new and emerging infectious diseases come from animals - Exclusive interview with Game of Thrones star, , with host Helen Wilson. Jerome shares his vision for a new future for the earth. - June cookery inspiration comes from ’s Maryanne Hall -  Gavin Chappell-Bates hosts his regular dedicated music feature. This month he chats to singer songwriter musician . Poet and author, Jane Mann, also reads Warning from Wuhan, which can be read ABOUT OUR SHOW You can hear this show via Apple Podcasts, Google Podcasts and on lots of other apps and websites. Spread the word! Don't forget to share us on Facebook and Twitter! Get the latest episode every month, straight to your mobile device or computer. It's automatic and completely free. Here's how. Copyright owned by Viva! Bristol 2020. Not for re-use without our written agreement. All featured music and content used by permission. Produced by Helen Wilson for Viva!.  

James King BBC Radio 2 (previously Radio 1) Rhianna Dhillon (BBC 6music, also previously Radio 1) return to Flixwatcher to review James’ choice John Wick: Chapter 3 – Parabellum. John Wick: Chapter 3 – Parabellum (JW3) picks up exactly where Chapter 2 ends, Wick (Keanu Reeves) is now “excommunicado” after an unauthorized killing on the grounds of The Continental Hotel and is on the run from every hitman in New York. JW3 takes the ante that was upped in JW2 and turns everything up to 11. The mythology of the High Table is expanded, Wick travels to Casablanca, there are horse fu and attack dogs, even more, ultra-violence, more humour, and Jerome Flynn. Chances are if you enjoyed JW and JW2 you’ll probably like JW3 (possibly it could be your favourite in the franchise so far), if you didn’t you’ll probably give this one a miss. If you’ve always wanted to see John Wick kill someone with a book then this film is the one for you. Scores [supsystic-tables id=157] Rhianna remains unconvinced but it’s Kobi’s favourite of the franchise so far, John Wick: Chapter 3 – Parabellum scores 3.46 overall. Want to know what Flixwatcher and guests thought of JW2? Check out the previous episode What do you guys think? Have you seen John Wick: Chapter 3 -parabellum? What did you think? Please let us know in the comments below!   Episode #150.2 Crew Links   Thanks to the Episode #150.2 Crew of Rhianna Dhillon (@RhiannaDhillon)  from BBC 6 music, previously Radio 1 and James King (@jameskingmovies) BBC Radio 2   Find their websites online at https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/articles/4f2hhz3XJBtCsyhdBjmwQ20/whats-rhianna-dhillon-been-listening-to and  https://www.amazon.com/Ultimate-History-80s-Teen-Movie/dp/1635765846 Please make sure you give them some love     More about John Wick: Chapter 3 – Parabellum   For more info on John Wick: Chapter 3 – Parabellum, you can visit John Wick: Chapter 3 – Parabellum IMDb page here or John Wick: Chapter 3 – Parabellum Rotten Tomatoes page here.   Final Plug! Subscribe, Share and Review us on iTunes   If you enjoyed this episode of Flixwatcher Podcast you probably know other people who will like it too! Please share it with your friends and family, review us, and join us across ALL of the Social Media links below.

Unsere Interview-Reihe aus der Streaming-Box der ComicCon Germany 2019 aus Dortmund. Es geht weiter mit Game of Thrones Alumni Jerome Flynn (Bronn)

Unsere Interview-Reihe aus der Streaming-Box der ComicCon Germany 2019 aus Dortmund. Es geht weiter mit Game of Thrones Alumni Jerome Flynn (Bronn)

On this episode I’m joined by Jerome Flynn who is best known for his role in Game of Thrones as Bronn of the Blackwater and as one half of the musical group Robson & Jerome from the 90s. But Jerome is also involved in a lot of environmental activism which is a huge part of the reason I wanted to get him on the podcast - one of the campaigns he’s currently working on is called ‘Farms Not Factories’ and is helping to educate us about the awful things that happen in the factory farming industry. And although I would have loved to sit and talk about Game of Thrones for an hour, we actually had an incredible discussion about compassion and opening up your heart to the oneness of life as it’s very much a journey I’m going on right now in trying to figure out what more I can do to help with our environmental problems. During this conversation, we spoke about: - Why he took a 10 year break from showbiz - The routine he starts the day with - Changes we want to see in society - Comparisons between GOT and the environmental crisis - Prioritising health & wellbeing and more If there is someone you feel would benefit from hearing this conversation then please make sure you share it with a friend who would enjoy listening and really take something from it :) thedreamersdisease.co.uk (http://thedreamersdisease.co.uk/) Follow Jerome: Twitter: @Jerome Flynn Find out more about Farms Not Factories: https://farmsnotfactories.org/  Follow Alex: IG: @iamalexmanzi Twitter: @iamalexmanzi

Dennis is joined in studio by Gene Simmons, who talks about the Kiss End of The Road Tour, where his creative spark came from, the internet and the wealth of knowledge it provides, why humans love trees and closely trimmed lawns, Andy Warhol, motivational public speaking, Kiss caskets, and why he has replaced handshakes with fist bumps. Plus Dennis listens to your voicemails and talks to Christian and Lindsey about the mini Statue of Liberty in France, other people in showbiz named Dennis and much more! This episode is brought to you by our sponsor: Calm: Calm is the number one app for sleep. Sleep deficiency does serious damage. Not just to your brain, but to your body as well. The sleepless are more prone to accidents, weight gain, and depression. With Calm you’ll discover a whole library of programs designed to help you get the sleep your brain and body needs. Like Soundscapes and over a hundred Sleep Stories narrated by soothing voices, like Jerome Flynn from Games of Thrones and Stephen Fry. Right now, Dennis Miller Option listeners get 25% off a Calm Premium subscription at Calm.com/MILLER.

This week, Joe and Todd discuss John Wick 3 (4K/Digital) and Chernobyl (HB0). Joe makes his yearly pilgrimage to Pennsylvania for Field of Screams 2019. John Wick stars Keanu Reeves, Ian McShane, Mark Dacascos, Laurence Fishburne, Asia Kate Dillon, Halle Berry, Lance Reddick, Anjelica Huston, Saïd Taghmaoui, Jerome Flynn, Cecep Arif Rahman, Yayan Ruhian, Boban Marjanović, and Randall Duk Kim.. Chernobyl (HBO) stars Jared Harris, Stellan Skarsgård, Paul Ritter, Jessie Buckley, Adam Nagaitis, Con O'Neill, Adrian Rawlins, Sam Troughton, Robert Emms, Emily Watson, David Dencik, Mark Lewis Jones, and Alan Williams. --- Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/zadzooks-happy-hour/support

Game of Thrones' Jerome Flynn and actress Elaine Hendrix (The Parent Trap, What the Bleep?) bring their influence to bear on animal rights and environmentalism.

Jerome Flynn portrayed Bronn on Game Of Thrones and joins us to discuss his return to acting, the audition for GoT, his new projects and more...

In this episode, we’re back and we’ve got a lot of Stephen King news to cover! Timestamps Show Start - 00:19 Stephen King Check-Ins - 04:15  Stephen King News Round-Up - 16:52 Lisey’s Story Adaptation - 17:07 Castle Rock Recasting - 22:21 Jerome Flynn in The Dark Tower - 26:36 Mistakes in The Dark Tower - 29:02 Gwendy’s Magic Feather - 36:43 It: Chapter Two Trailer - 39:16 HBO’s The Outsider - 45:42 If It Bleeds Announced - 49:05 Hulu’s The Eyes of the Dragon - 53:22 New Line’s The Long Walk - 1:00:50 RIP Leo the Cat - 1:05:03 Creepshow Episode Details Revealed - 1:06:27 Mr. Mercedes Season 3 - 1:13:07  What’s Coming to the Podcast - 1:14:14 Closing the Ep - 1:16:04 Pre-Recorded Outro - 1:16:50  Related Links 4/8 - Julianne Moore to Star in Apple Drama ‘Lisey’s Story’ From Stephen King, J.J. Abrams - Variety 4/10 - ‘Castle Rock’: Paul Sparks To Star In Season 2 Of Hulu Series In Recasting - Deadline 4/22 - Game of Thrones’ Jerome Flynn to Star in Amazon’s Dark Tower Series - ComingSoon.net 5/1 - Richard Chizmar's sequel Gwendy's Magic Feather returns to Stephen King's Castle Rock - EW 5/9 - It: Chapter Two trailer - YouTube  5/13 - HBO’s 2020 Preview Includes First Look at Stephen King Adaptation “The Outsider" - Bloody Disgusting 5/14 - If It Bleeds is Stephen King’s Latest Book, Set for 2020 Release - DeadEntertainment.com 5/17 - Stephen King’s THE EYES OF THE DRAGON Is Getting a Hulu Adaptation - Nerdist 5/19 - Stephen King Comments On Game Of Thrones' Final Controversial Season - GameSpot  5/21 - André Øvredal To Direct Stephen King’s ‘The Long Walk’ For New Line - Deadline 5/30 - Pet Sematary star Leo the Cat dies: 'He will be forever missed' - EW 5/30 - Stephen King Says Donald Trump and HBO's 'Chernobyl' Have Something in Common - Yahoo 5/30 - David Arquette, Tricia Helfer and Dana Gould Join Shudder’s “Creepshow”; Episode Details Revealed - Bloody Disgusting 5/31 - Ron Howard Admits Mistakes in ‘The Dark Tower’ Adaptation - Collider 6/4 - Stephen King Adaptation “Mr. Mercedes” Will Return for Third Season in September - Bloody Disgusting  Obsessive Viewer - Our weekly movie and TV discussion and review podcast iTunes - Google Play - Stitcher Obsessive Viewer Presents: Anthology - Matt’s solo podcast exploring science fiction anthology storytelling in television’s first golden age starting with The Twilight Zone. iTunes - Google Play - Stitcher Shocktober in Irvington - Obsessive Viewer’s yearly event screening of short horror films from Indianapolis filmmakers to support the Irvington Historical Society The Secular Perspective - Check out Tiny’s side project podcast that explores the concepts of faith, religion and existence from the perspective of secular hosts Chad and Amanda  Episode Homepage: http://www.towerjunkiespod.com/028  Tower Junkies Subscribe Apple Podcasts Stitcher Google Podcasts TuneIn Radio RSS Feed Social Media Facebook Twitter Instagram Episodes by Category News – Covering news items related to Stephen King and The Dark Tower Palaver – General discussions about Stephen King and/or The Dark Tower series Khef – Reviews and discussions of books and comics in The Dark Tower series Novel Reviews – Reviews of Stephen King (and related) novels Novella Reviews – Reviews of Stephen King (and related) novellas Short Story Reviews – Reviews of Stephen King (and related) short stories and short story collections Comic Reviews – Reviews of Stephen King (and related) comic books and comic adaptations Movie Reviews – Reviews of Stephen King (and related) movie adaptations TV Reviews – Reviews of Stephen King (and related) TV adaptations Commentary Tracks – Special commentary track recordings that can be listened to while watching the title or simply as a podcast episode Interviews – Interviews with people with special ties to the work of Stephen King Special Eps – Episodes that don’t fit into the other categories; usually announcement episodes pertaining to the podcast itself Matt’s Top 19 King Novels 11/22/63 IT Misery The Stand The Drawing of the Three (Dark Tower II) The Dark Tower (Dark Tower VII) The Shining Pet Sematary Under the Dome The Waste Lands (Dark Tower III) Wizard and Glass (Dark Tower IV) Christine Wolves of the Calla (Dark Tower V) The Dead Zone The Gunslinger(Dark Tower I) Mercedes Salem’s Lot Song of Susannah (Dark Tower VI) Gerald’s Game Tiny’s Top 19 King Novels The Dark Tower (Dark Tower VII) Misery The Stand The Shining The Drawing of the Three (Dark Tower II) The Gunslinger (Dark Tower I) Christine Wizard and Glass (Dark Tower IV) IT Cujo The Dead Zone Mr. Mercedes Gerald’s Game Pet Sematary Wolves of the Calla (Dark Tower V) Salem’s Lot Under the Dome 11/22/63 The Waste Lands (Dark Tower III)

Welcome to another episode of Morgan Hasn't Seen with Jeannine Brice & Morgan Robinson!! This is series two of the show as Jeannine forces Morgan to watch some Keanu Reeves movies. In honour of the release of John Wick Chapter 3 this month, they will be discussing all three John Wick movies and finishing the month talking Point Break. The third movie in the John Wick franchise is here and now that Morgan is all caught up, he and Jeannine are back to discuss John Wick Chapter 3: Parabellum in all its glory!! Constantly mispronouncing "Parabellum", questioning Jerome Flynn's accent and wondering what "the high table" even looks like; safe to say, they are both BIG fans of these movies!! Remember to join "Our Wonderful People" by leaving a five star review and a loving tweet of support and we'll read it out on a show with a huge thank you!! Check out the Movie Trivia Schmoedown: https://www.youtube.com/user/schmoesknow  IT'S A WONDERFUL PODCAST MERCH (designed by Jeannine): https://www.teepublic.com/user/g9design Sub to the feed and download now on PodBean, Apple Podcasts, Spotify, Stitcher & more and be sure to rate, review and SHARE AROUND!!  Keep up with us on Twitter: Podcast: https://twitter.com/ItsAWonderful1 Morgan: https://twitter.com/Th3PurpleDon  Jeannine: https://twitter.com/JeannineDaBean Keep being wonderful!! --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/itsawonderfulpodcast/message Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/itsawonderfulpodcast/support

Our voices are at the core of our identity. When we speak, Stewart Pearce explains, we create matter and manifest our ideas through our voices. Stewart Pearce's clients have included Maria Aitkin, Minnie Driver, Kathryn Hunter, Josie Lawrence, Julia Ormond, Vanessa Redgrave, Simon Callow, Jack Davenport, Jerome Flynn and Mark Rylance. with many aspects of the mind and body to connect the personality of voice with the breath of soul. As an Alchemist he enchants, encourages and empowers all that wish, enabling movement towards the Light. He describes his work explaining that  “The vibrations of our voice echo the vibrations of our bodies, and in turn echo the sounds of the natural world. Through resonance we connect with the Universe. Our voice is a means for revelation. If we become aware that we may harmonise our total being through its power, we may move from negative disenchantment into knowing what is enchanting about our lives."  Subscribe to my .  

  It's ! Kris catches up with our campaigns manager, Lex Rigby, to discuss our spectacular month of dairy-free action. We're  of four UK cities to hand-out free vegan cheese and chocolate, kindly supplied by  and . We revisit our interview with Jerome Flynn, Game of Thrones actor, just in time for our new Everyone’s Going Dairy-Free magazine launch. We also continue our interview series with top vegan athletes. This time, Veronika interviews professional cyclist and vegan of 17 years, Christine Varados.   FIND OUT MORE.  - Latest vegan news including an update on our Magical Viva! Vegan Festival. - : join us on our month-long campaign encouraging the public to ditch dairy products in favour of plant-based alternatives. - Roisin McAuley debates whether animals should be used for our entertainment. - Juliet interviews Jerome Flynn, Game of Thrones actor and animal activist. - Veronika Powell interviews Christine Varados, vegan athlete and professional cyclist. - Gavin Chappell-Bates hosts his regular dedicated music feature, this month sitting down with Giles Bryant.    ABOUT OUR SHOW.  You can hear this show via Apple Podcasts, Google Podcasts and on lots of other apps and websites. Spread the word! Don't forget to share us on Facebook and Twitter! Get the latest episode every month, straight to your mobile device or computer. It's automatic and completely free. Copyright owned by Viva! Bristol 2019. Not for re-use without our written agreement. All featured music used by permission. Produced by EMC, the Easy Media Company.

Welcome to episode thirty of A History of Rock Music in Five Hundred Songs. This is the last of our three-part look at Chess Records, and focuses on "Bo Diddley" by Bo Diddley. Click the full post to read liner notes, links to more information, and a transcript of the episode.  ----more---- Resources As always, I've created a Mixcloud streaming playlist with full versions of all the songs in the episode.I accidentally used a later rerecording of "I Wish You Would" by Billy Boy Arnold on the playlist, but I use the correct version in the podcast itself. Sorry about that. As this is part three of the Chess Records trilogy, you might want to listen to part one, on the Moonglows, and part two, on Chuck Berry, if you haven't already. Along with the resources mentioned in the previous two episodes, the resource I used most this time was Bo Diddley: Living Legend by George R. White, a strong biography told almost entirely in Diddley's own words from interviews, and the only full-length book on Diddley. This compilation contains Diddley's first six albums plus a bunch of non-album and live tracks, and has everything you're likely to want by Diddley on it, for under ten pounds. If you want to hear more Muddy Waters after hearing his back-and-forth with Diddley, this double CD set is a perfect introduction to him. Patreon This podcast is brought to you by the generosity of my backers on Patreon. Why not join them? Transcript Welcome to the final part of our trilogy about Chess Records. Last week, we looked at Chuck Berry. This week, we're going to deal with someone who may even have been more important. One of the many injustices in copyright law -- and something that we'll have a lot of cause to mention during the course of this series -- is that, for the entire time period covered by this podcast, it was impossible to copyright a groove or a rhythm, but you could copyright a melody line and lyric. And this has led to real inter-racial injustice. In general, black musical culture in the USA has emphasised different aspects of musical invention than white culture has. While white American musical culture -- particularly *rich* white musical culture -- has stressed inventive melodies and harmonic movement -- think of, say, Burt Bacharach or George Gershwin -- it has not historically stressed rhythmic invention. On the other hand, black musical culture has stressed that above everything else -- you'll notice that all the rhythmic innovations we've talked about in this series so far, like boogie woogie, and the backbeat, and the tresillo rhythm, all came from black musicians. That's not, of course, to say that black musicians can't be melodically inventive or white musicians rhythmically -- I'm not here saying "black people have a great sense of rhythm" or any of that racist nonsense. I'm just talking about the way that different cultures have prioritised different things. But this means that when black musicians have produced innovative work, it's not been possible for them to have any intellectual property ownership in the result. You can't steal a melody by Bacharach, but anyone can play a song with a boogie beat, or a shuffle, or a tresillo... or with the Bo Diddley beat. [Very short excerpt: “Bo Diddley”, Bo Diddley] Elias McDaniel's distinctive sound came about because he started performing so young that he couldn't gain entrance to clubs, and so he and his band had to play on street corners. But you can't cart a drum kit around and use it on the streets, so McDaniel and his band came up with various inventive ways to add percussion to the act. At first, they had someone who would come round with a big bag of sand and empty it onto the pavement. He'd then use a brush on the sand, and the noise of the brushing would provide percussion -- at the end of the performance this man, whose name was Sam Daniel but was called Sandman by everyone, would sweep all the sand back up and put it back into his bag for the next show. Eventually, though, Sandman left, and McDaniel hit on the idea of using his girlfriend's neighbour Jerome Green as part of the act. We heard Jerome last week, playing on "Maybellene", but he's someone who there is astonishingly little information about. He doesn't even have a Wikipedia page, and you'll find barely more than a few paragraphs about him online. No-one even knows when he was born or died – *if* he died, though he seems to have disappeared around 1972. And this is quite astonishing when you consider that Green played on all Bo Diddley's classic records, and sang duet on a few of the most successful ones, *and* he played on many of Chuck Berry's, and on various other records by Willie Dixon, Otis Spann, the Moonglows... yet when you Google him, the third hit that comes up is about Robson Green and Jerome Flynn, a nineties soft-pop duo who span out of a soap opera. At first, Jerome's job was to pass the hat around and collect the money, but McDaniel decided to build Jerome a pair of maracas, and teach him how to play. And he learned to play very well indeed, adding a Latin sound to what had previously been just a blues band. Jerome's maracas weren't the only things that Elias McDaniel built, though. He had a knack for technology, though he was always rather modest about his own abilities. He built himself one of the very first tremelo systems for a guitar, making something out of old car bits and electronic junk that would break the electronic signal up. Before commercial tremelo systems existed, McDaniel was the only one who could make his guitar sound like that. The choppy guitar, with its signal breaking up deliberately, and the maracas being shook frantically, gave McDaniel's music a rhythmic drive unlike anything else in rock and roll. McDaniel and his band eventually got their music heard by Leonard Chess at Chess Records. Chess was impressed by a song called "Uncle John", which had lyrics that went "Uncle John's got corn ain't never been shucked/Uncle John's got daughters ain't never been... to school"; but he said the song needed less salacious lyrics, and he suggested retitling it “Bo Diddley”, which also became the stage name of the man who up until now had been called Elias McDaniel. The new lyrics were inspired by the black folk song "Hambone", which a few years earlier had become a novelty hit: [Excerpt: "Hambone", Red Saunders Orchestra with the Hambone Kids] Now, I have to be a bit careful here, because here I'm talking about something that's from a different culture from my own, and my understanding of it is that of an outsider. To *me*, "Hambone" seems to be a unified thing that's part song, part dance, part game. But my understanding may be very, very flawed, and I don't want to pretend to knowledge I don't have. But this is my best understanding of what “Hambone” is. "Hambone", like many folk songs, is not in itself a single song, but a collection of different songs with similar elements. The name comes from a dance which, it is said, dates back to enslaved people attempting to entertain themselves. Slaves in most of the US were banned from using drums, because it was believed they might use them to send messages to each other, so when they wanted to dance and sing music, they would slap different parts of their own bodies to provide percussive accompaniment. Now, I tend to be a little dubious of narratives that claim that aspects of twentieth-century black culture date back to slavery or, as people often claim, to Africa. A lot of the time these turn out to be urban myths of the "ring a ring a roses is about the bubonic plague" kind. One of the real tragedies of slavery is that the African culture that the enslaved black people brought over to the US was largely lost in the ensuing centuries, and so there's a very strong incentive to try to find things that could be a continuation of that. But that's the story around “Hambone”, which is also known as the “Juba beat”. Another influence Diddley would always cite for the lyrical scansion is the song “Hey Baba Reba”, which he would usually misremember as having been by either Cab Calloway or Louis Jordan, but was actually by Lionel Hampton: [Excerpt: Lionel Hampton, “Hey Baba Reba”] But the important thing to note is that the rhythm of all these records is totally different from the rhythm of the song "Bo Diddley". There's a bit of misinformation that goes around in almost every article about Diddley, saying "the Bo Diddley beat is just the 'Hambone' beat", and while Diddley would correct this in almost every interview he ever gave, the misinformation would persist -- to the point that when I first heard "Hambone" I was shocked, because I'd assumed that there must at least have been some slight similarity. There's no similarity at all. And that's not the only song where I've seen claims that there's a Bo Diddley beat where none exists. As a reminder, here's the actual Bo Diddley rhythm: [Very short excerpt: Bo Diddley, “Bo Diddley”] Now the PhD thesis on the development of the backbeat which I talked about back in episode two claims that the beat appears on about thirteen records before Diddley's, mostly by people we've discussed before, like Louis Jordan, Johnny Otis, Fats Domino, and Roy Brown. But here's a couple of examples of the songs that thesis cites. Here's "Mardi Gras in New Orleans" by Fats Domino: [Excerpt: "Mardi Gras in New Orleans, Fats Domino] And here's "That's Your Last Boogie", by Joe Swift, produced by Johnny Otis: [Excerpt: Joe Swift, "That's Your Last Boogie"] As you can hear, they both have something that's *sort of* the Bo Diddley beat, but not really, among their other rhythms. It's most notable at the very start of "That's Your Last Boogie" [Intro: "That's Your Last Boogie"] That's what's called a clave beat -- it's sort of like the tresillo, with an extra bom-bom on the end. Bom bom-bom, bom-bom. That's not the Bo Diddley beat. The Bo Diddley beat actually varies subtly from bar to bar, but it's generally a sort of chunk-a chunk-a-chunk a-chunk a-chunk ah. It certainly stresses the five beats of the clave, but it's not them, and nor is it the "shave and a haircut, two bits" rhythm other people seem to claim for it. Most ridiculously, Wikipedia even claims that the Andrews Sisters' version of Lord Invader's great calypso song, "Rum and Coca Cola", has the Bo Diddley beat: [Excerpt: "Rum and Coca Cola", the Andrews Sisters] Both records have maracas, but that's about it. Incidentally, that song was, in the Andrews Sisters version, credited to a white American thief rather than to the black Trinidadian men who wrote it. Sadly appropriate for a song about the exploitation of Trinidadians for "the Yankee dollar". But none of these records have the Bo Diddley beat, despite what anyone might say. None of them even sound very much like Diddley's beat at all. The origins of the Bo Diddley beat were, believe it or not, with Gene Autry. We've talked before about Autry, who was the biggest Western music star of the late thirties and early forties, and who inspired all sorts of people you wouldn't expect, from Les Paul to Hank Ballard. But Diddley hit upon his rhythm when trying to play Autry's "I've Got Spurs That Jingle Jangle Jingle". [excerpt, Gene Autry, "I've Got Spurs that Jingle Jangle Jingle"] No, I don't see the resemblance either. But this ties back into what we were talking about last week, with the influence of country musicians on the blues and R&B musicians at Chess. And if you become familiar with his later work, it becomes clear that Diddley truly loved the whole iconography of the Western, and country music. He did albums called "Have Guitar Will Travel" (named after the Western TV show "Have Gun Will Travel") and "Bo Diddley is a Gunslinger". Diddley's work is rooted in black folklore -- things like hambone, but also the figure of Stagger Lee and other characters like the Signifying Monkey -- but it should be understood that black American folklore has always included the image of the black cowboy. The combination of these influences – the “Hambone” lyrical ideas, the cowboy rhythm, and the swaggering character Diddley created for himself – became this: [Excerpt: “Bo Diddley” by Bo Diddley] The B-side to the record, meanwhile, was maybe even more important. It's also an early example of Diddley *not* just reusing his signature rhythm. The popular image of Diddley has him as a one-idea artist remaking the same song over and over again -- and certainly he did often return to the Bo Diddley beat -- but he was a far more interesting artist than that, and recorded in a far wider variety of styles than you might imagine. And in "I'm A Man" he took on another artist's style, beating Muddy Waters at his own game. "I'm A Man" was a response to Waters' earlier "Hoochie Coochie Man": [Excerpt: "Hoochie Coochie Man", Muddy Waters] "Hoochie Coochie Man" had been written for Muddy Waters by Willie Dixon and was, as far as I can tell, the first blues record ever to have that da-na-na na-na riff that later became the riff that for most people defines the blues. "Hoochie Coochie Man" had managed to sum up everything about Waters' persona in a way that Waters himself had never managed with his own songs. It combined sexual braggadocio with hoodoo lore -- the character Waters was singing in was possessed of supernatural powers, from the day he was born, and he used those powers to "make pretty women jump and shout". He had a black cat bone, and a mojo, and a John the Conqueror root. It was a great riff, and a great persona, and a great record. But it was still a conventionally structured sixteen-bar blues, with the normal three chords that almost all blues records have. But Bo Diddley heard that and decided that was two chords too many. When you've got a great riff, you don't *need* chord changes, not if you can just hammer on that riff. So he came up with a variant of Dixon's song, and called it "I'm a Man". In his version, there was only the one chord: [Excerpt: Bo Diddley, "I'm a Man"] Willie Dixon guested on bass for that song, as it wasn't felt that Diddley's own bass player was getting the feeling right. There were also some changes made to the song in the studio -- as Diddley put it later: "They wanted me to spell 'man', but they weren't explaining it right. They couldn't get me to spell 'man'. I didn't understand what they were talking about!" But eventually he did sing that man is spelled m-a-n, and the song went on to be covered by pretty much every British band of the sixties, and become a blues standard. The most important cover version of it though was when Muddy Waters decided to make his own answer record to Diddley, in which he stated that *he* was a man, not a boy like Diddley. Diddley got a co-writing credit on this, though Willie Dixon, whose riff had been the basis of "I'm a Man", didn't. [Excerpt: Muddy Waters, "Mannish Boy"] And then there was Etta James' answer record, "W.O.M.A.N.", which once again has wild west references in it: [Excerpt: Etta James, "W.O.M.A.N."] And that… "inspired" Jerry Leiber and Mike Stoller to write this for Peggy Lee: [Excerpt: Peggy Lee, "I'm A Woman"] Of course, none of those records, except Muddy Waters', gave Bo Diddley a writing credit, just as Diddley didn't credit Dixon for his riff. At the same session as the single was recorded, Diddley's harmonica player, Billy Boy Arnold, recorded a single of his own, backed by Diddley and his band. "I'm Sweet on you Baby" wasn't released at the time, but it's a much more straightforward blues song, and more like Chess' normal releases. Chess were interested in making more records with Arnold, but we'll see that that didn't turn out well: [Excerpt: Billy Boy Arnold, "I'm Sweet on you Baby"] Despite putting out a truly phenomenal single, Diddley hit upon a real problem with his career, and one that would be one of the reasons he was never as popular as contemporaries like Chuck Berry. The problem, at first, looked like anything but. He was booked on the Ed Sullivan Show to promote his first single. The Ed Sullivan Show was the biggest TV show of the fifties and sixties. A variety show presented by the eponymous Sullivan, who somehow even after twenty years of presenting never managed to look or sound remotely comfortable in front of a camera, it was the programme that boosted Elvis Presley from stardom to superstardom, and which turned the Beatles from a local phenomenon in the UK and Europe into the biggest act the world had ever seen. Getting on it was the biggest possible break Diddley could have got, and it should have made his career. Instead, it was a disaster, all because of a misunderstanding. At the time, the country song "Sixteen Tons" by Tennessee Ernie Ford was a big hit: [Excerpt: "Sixteen Tons", Tennessee Ernie Ford] Diddley liked the song -- enough that he would later record his own version of it: [Excerpt: Bo Diddley, "Sixteen Tons"] And so he was singing it to himself in his dressing room. One of the production staff happened to walk past and hear him, and asked if he could perform that song on the show. Diddley assumed he was being asked if he would do it as well as the song he was there to promote, and was flattered to be asked to do a second song. [Excerpt: Ed Sullivan introducing "Dr Jive", with all the confusion about what words he's using] When he got out on to the stage he saw the cue card saying "Bo Diddley Sixteen Tons", assumed it meant the song "Bo Diddley" followed by the song "Sixteen Tons", and so he launched into "Bo Diddley". After all, why would he go on the show to promote someone else's record? He was there to promote his own debut single. So of course he was going to play it. This was not what the production person had intended, and was not what Ed Sullivan wanted. Backstage, there was a confrontation that got so heated that Diddley had to be physically restrained from beating Sullivan with his guitar after Sullivan called Diddley a “black boy” (according to Diddley, “black” at that time and in that place, was a racial slur, though it's the polite term to use today). Sullivan yelled and screamed at Diddley and told him he would be blacklisted from network TV, and would certainly never appear on Sullivan's show again under any circumstances. After that first TV appearance, it would be seven years until Diddley's second. And unlike all his contemporaries he didn't even get to appear in films. Even Alan Freed, who greatly respected Diddley and booked him on his live shows, and who Diddley also respected, didn't have him appear in any of the five rock and roll films he made. As far as I can tell, the two minutes he was on the Ed Sullivan show is the only record of Bo Diddley on film or video from 1955 through 1962. And this meant, as well, that Chess put all their promotional efforts behind Chuck Berry, who for all his faults was more welcome in the TV studios. If Diddley wanted success, he had to let his records and live performances do the work for him, because he wasn't getting any help from the media. Luckily, his records were great. Not only was Diddley's first hit one of the great two-sided singles of all time, but his next single was also impressive. The story of "Diddley Daddy" dates back to one of the white cover versions of "Bo Diddley". Essex Records put out this cover version by Jean Dinning, produced by Dave Miller, who had earlier produced Bill Haley and the Comets' first records: [Excerpt: Jean Dinning, "Bo Diddley"] And, as with Georgia Gibbs' version of “Tweedle Dee”, the record label wanted to make the record sound as much like the original as possible, and so tried to get the original musicians to play on it, and made an agreement with Chess. They couldn't get Bo Diddley himself, and without his tremelo guitar it sounded nothing like the original, but they *did* get Willie Dixon on bass, Diddley's drummer Clifton James (who sadly isn't the same Clifton James who played the bumbling sheriff in "Live and Let Die" and "Superman II", though it would be great if he was), and Billy Boy Arnold on harmonica. But Billy Boy Arnold made the mistake of going to Chess and asking for the money he was owed for the session. Leonard Chess didn't like when musicians wanted paying, and complained to Bo Diddley about Arnold. Diddley told Arnold that Chess wasn't happy with him, and so Arnold decided to take a song he'd written, "Diddy Diddy Dum Dum", to another label rather than give it to Chess. He changed the lyrics around a bit, and called it "I Wish You Would": [Excerpt: Billy Boy Arnold, "I Wish You Would"] Arnold actually recorded that for Vee-Jay Records on the very day that Bo Diddley's second single was due to be recorded, and the Diddley session was held up because nobody knew where Arnold was. They eventually found him and got him to Diddley's session -- where Diddley started playing "Diddy Diddy Dum Dum". Leonard Chess suggested letting Arnold sing the song, but Arnold said "I can't -- I just recorded that for VeeJay", and showed Chess the contract. Diddley and Harvey Fuqua, who was there to sing backing vocals with the rest of the Moonglows, quickly reworked the song. Arnold didn't want to play harmonica on something so close to a record he'd just made, though he played on the B-side, and so Muddy Waters' harmonica player Little Walter filled in instead. The new song, entitled "Diddley Daddy", became another of Diddley's signature songs: [Excerpt: Bo Diddley, "Diddley Daddy"] but the B-side, "She's Fine, She's Mine", was the one that would truly become influential: [Excerpt: Bo Diddley, "She's Fine, She's Mine"] That song was later slightly reworked into this, by Willie Cobbs: [Excerpt: Willie Cobbs, "You Don't Love Me"] That song was covered by pretty much every white guitar band of the late sixties -- the Grateful Dead, Quicksilver Messenger Service, the Allman Brothers, Steve Stills and Al Kooper... the list goes on. But Cobbs' song itself was also slightly reworked, by Dawn Penn, in 1967, and became a minor reggae classic. Twenty-seven years later, in 1994, Penn rerecorded her song, based on Cobbs' song, based on Bo Diddley's song, and it became a worldwide smash hit, with Diddley getting cowriting credit: [Excerpt: Dawn Penn, "You Don't Love Me (No, No, No)"] And *that* has later been covered by Beyonce and Rhianna, and sampled by Ghostface Killah and Usher. And that's how important Bo Diddley was at this point in time. The B-side to his less-good follow-up to his debut provided enough material for sixty years' worth of hits in styles from R&B to jam band to reggae to hip-hop. And the song “Bo Diddley” itself, of course, would provide a rhythm for generations of musicians to take, everyone from Buddy Holly: [Excerpt: Buddy Holly, “Not Fade Away”] to George Michael: [Excerpt George Michael, “Faith”] to U2: [Excerpt: U2, “Desire”] Because that rhythm was so successful – even though most of the success went to white people who didn't credit or pay Diddley – people tend to think of Diddley as a one-idea musician, which is far from the truth. Like many of his contemporaries he only had a short period where he was truly inventive -- his last truly classic track was recorded in 1962. But that period was an astoundingly inventive one, and we're going to be seeing him again during the course of this series. In his first four tracks, Diddley had managed to record three of the most influential tracks in rock history. But the next time we look at him, it will be with a song he wrote for other people -- a song that would indirectly have massive effects on the whole of popular music.  

Welcome to episode thirty of A History of Rock Music in Five Hundred Songs. This is the last of our three-part look at Chess Records, and focuses on “Bo Diddley” by Bo Diddley. Click the full post to read liner notes, links to more information, and a transcript of the episode.  —-more—- Resources As always, I’ve created a Mixcloud streaming playlist with full versions of all the songs in the episode.I accidentally used a later rerecording of “I Wish You Would” by Billy Boy Arnold on the playlist, but I use the correct version in the podcast itself. Sorry about that. As this is part three of the Chess Records trilogy, you might want to listen to part one, on the Moonglows, and part two, on Chuck Berry, if you haven’t already. Along with the resources mentioned in the previous two episodes, the resource I used most this time was Bo Diddley: Living Legend by George R. White, a strong biography told almost entirely in Diddley’s own words from interviews, and the only full-length book on Diddley. This compilation contains Diddley’s first six albums plus a bunch of non-album and live tracks, and has everything you’re likely to want by Diddley on it, for under ten pounds. If you want to hear more Muddy Waters after hearing his back-and-forth with Diddley, this double CD set is a perfect introduction to him. Patreon This podcast is brought to you by the generosity of my backers on Patreon. Why not join them? Transcript Welcome to the final part of our trilogy about Chess Records. Last week, we looked at Chuck Berry. This week, we’re going to deal with someone who may even have been more important. One of the many injustices in copyright law — and something that we’ll have a lot of cause to mention during the course of this series — is that, for the entire time period covered by this podcast, it was impossible to copyright a groove or a rhythm, but you could copyright a melody line and lyric. And this has led to real inter-racial injustice. In general, black musical culture in the USA has emphasised different aspects of musical invention than white culture has. While white American musical culture — particularly *rich* white musical culture — has stressed inventive melodies and harmonic movement — think of, say, Burt Bacharach or George Gershwin — it has not historically stressed rhythmic invention. On the other hand, black musical culture has stressed that above everything else — you’ll notice that all the rhythmic innovations we’ve talked about in this series so far, like boogie woogie, and the backbeat, and the tresillo rhythm, all came from black musicians. That’s not, of course, to say that black musicians can’t be melodically inventive or white musicians rhythmically — I’m not here saying “black people have a great sense of rhythm” or any of that racist nonsense. I’m just talking about the way that different cultures have prioritised different things. But this means that when black musicians have produced innovative work, it’s not been possible for them to have any intellectual property ownership in the result. You can’t steal a melody by Bacharach, but anyone can play a song with a boogie beat, or a shuffle, or a tresillo… or with the Bo Diddley beat. [Very short excerpt: “Bo Diddley”, Bo Diddley] Elias McDaniel’s distinctive sound came about because he started performing so young that he couldn’t gain entrance to clubs, and so he and his band had to play on street corners. But you can’t cart a drum kit around and use it on the streets, so McDaniel and his band came up with various inventive ways to add percussion to the act. At first, they had someone who would come round with a big bag of sand and empty it onto the pavement. He’d then use a brush on the sand, and the noise of the brushing would provide percussion — at the end of the performance this man, whose name was Sam Daniel but was called Sandman by everyone, would sweep all the sand back up and put it back into his bag for the next show. Eventually, though, Sandman left, and McDaniel hit on the idea of using his girlfriend’s neighbour Jerome Green as part of the act. We heard Jerome last week, playing on “Maybellene”, but he’s someone who there is astonishingly little information about. He doesn’t even have a Wikipedia page, and you’ll find barely more than a few paragraphs about him online. No-one even knows when he was born or died – *if* he died, though he seems to have disappeared around 1972. And this is quite astonishing when you consider that Green played on all Bo Diddley’s classic records, and sang duet on a few of the most successful ones, *and* he played on many of Chuck Berry’s, and on various other records by Willie Dixon, Otis Spann, the Moonglows… yet when you Google him, the third hit that comes up is about Robson Green and Jerome Flynn, a nineties soft-pop duo who span out of a soap opera. At first, Jerome’s job was to pass the hat around and collect the money, but McDaniel decided to build Jerome a pair of maracas, and teach him how to play. And he learned to play very well indeed, adding a Latin sound to what had previously been just a blues band. Jerome’s maracas weren’t the only things that Elias McDaniel built, though. He had a knack for technology, though he was always rather modest about his own abilities. He built himself one of the very first tremelo systems for a guitar, making something out of old car bits and electronic junk that would break the electronic signal up. Before commercial tremelo systems existed, McDaniel was the only one who could make his guitar sound like that. The choppy guitar, with its signal breaking up deliberately, and the maracas being shook frantically, gave McDaniel’s music a rhythmic drive unlike anything else in rock and roll. McDaniel and his band eventually got their music heard by Leonard Chess at Chess Records. Chess was impressed by a song called “Uncle John”, which had lyrics that went “Uncle John’s got corn ain’t never been shucked/Uncle John’s got daughters ain’t never been… to school”; but he said the song needed less salacious lyrics, and he suggested retitling it “Bo Diddley”, which also became the stage name of the man who up until now had been called Elias McDaniel. The new lyrics were inspired by the black folk song “Hambone”, which a few years earlier had become a novelty hit: [Excerpt: “Hambone”, Red Saunders Orchestra with the Hambone Kids] Now, I have to be a bit careful here, because here I’m talking about something that’s from a different culture from my own, and my understanding of it is that of an outsider. To *me*, “Hambone” seems to be a unified thing that’s part song, part dance, part game. But my understanding may be very, very flawed, and I don’t want to pretend to knowledge I don’t have. But this is my best understanding of what “Hambone” is. “Hambone”, like many folk songs, is not in itself a single song, but a collection of different songs with similar elements. The name comes from a dance which, it is said, dates back to enslaved people attempting to entertain themselves. Slaves in most of the US were banned from using drums, because it was believed they might use them to send messages to each other, so when they wanted to dance and sing music, they would slap different parts of their own bodies to provide percussive accompaniment. Now, I tend to be a little dubious of narratives that claim that aspects of twentieth-century black culture date back to slavery or, as people often claim, to Africa. A lot of the time these turn out to be urban myths of the “ring a ring a roses is about the bubonic plague” kind. One of the real tragedies of slavery is that the African culture that the enslaved black people brought over to the US was largely lost in the ensuing centuries, and so there’s a very strong incentive to try to find things that could be a continuation of that. But that’s the story around “Hambone”, which is also known as the “Juba beat”. Another influence Diddley would always cite for the lyrical scansion is the song “Hey Baba Reba”, which he would usually misremember as having been by either Cab Calloway or Louis Jordan, but was actually by Lionel Hampton: [Excerpt: Lionel Hampton, “Hey Baba Reba”] But the important thing to note is that the rhythm of all these records is totally different from the rhythm of the song “Bo Diddley”. There’s a bit of misinformation that goes around in almost every article about Diddley, saying “the Bo Diddley beat is just the ‘Hambone’ beat”, and while Diddley would correct this in almost every interview he ever gave, the misinformation would persist — to the point that when I first heard “Hambone” I was shocked, because I’d assumed that there must at least have been some slight similarity. There’s no similarity at all. And that’s not the only song where I’ve seen claims that there’s a Bo Diddley beat where none exists. As a reminder, here’s the actual Bo Diddley rhythm: [Very short excerpt: Bo Diddley, “Bo Diddley”] Now the PhD thesis on the development of the backbeat which I talked about back in episode two claims that the beat appears on about thirteen records before Diddley’s, mostly by people we’ve discussed before, like Louis Jordan, Johnny Otis, Fats Domino, and Roy Brown. But here’s a couple of examples of the songs that thesis cites. Here’s “Mardi Gras in New Orleans” by Fats Domino: [Excerpt: “Mardi Gras in New Orleans, Fats Domino] And here’s “That’s Your Last Boogie”, by Joe Swift, produced by Johnny Otis: [Excerpt: Joe Swift, “That’s Your Last Boogie”] As you can hear, they both have something that’s *sort of* the Bo Diddley beat, but not really, among their other rhythms. It’s most notable at the very start of “That’s Your Last Boogie” [Intro: “That’s Your Last Boogie”] That’s what’s called a clave beat — it’s sort of like the tresillo, with an extra bom-bom on the end. Bom bom-bom, bom-bom. That’s not the Bo Diddley beat. The Bo Diddley beat actually varies subtly from bar to bar, but it’s generally a sort of chunk-a chunk-a-chunk a-chunk a-chunk ah. It certainly stresses the five beats of the clave, but it’s not them, and nor is it the “shave and a haircut, two bits” rhythm other people seem to claim for it. Most ridiculously, Wikipedia even claims that the Andrews Sisters’ version of Lord Invader’s great calypso song, “Rum and Coca Cola”, has the Bo Diddley beat: [Excerpt: “Rum and Coca Cola”, the Andrews Sisters] Both records have maracas, but that’s about it. Incidentally, that song was, in the Andrews Sisters version, credited to a white American thief rather than to the black Trinidadian men who wrote it. Sadly appropriate for a song about the exploitation of Trinidadians for “the Yankee dollar”. But none of these records have the Bo Diddley beat, despite what anyone might say. None of them even sound very much like Diddley’s beat at all. The origins of the Bo Diddley beat were, believe it or not, with Gene Autry. We’ve talked before about Autry, who was the biggest Western music star of the late thirties and early forties, and who inspired all sorts of people you wouldn’t expect, from Les Paul to Hank Ballard. But Diddley hit upon his rhythm when trying to play Autry’s “I’ve Got Spurs That Jingle Jangle Jingle”. [excerpt, Gene Autry, “I’ve Got Spurs that Jingle Jangle Jingle”] No, I don’t see the resemblance either. But this ties back into what we were talking about last week, with the influence of country musicians on the blues and R&B musicians at Chess. And if you become familiar with his later work, it becomes clear that Diddley truly loved the whole iconography of the Western, and country music. He did albums called “Have Guitar Will Travel” (named after the Western TV show “Have Gun Will Travel”) and “Bo Diddley is a Gunslinger”. Diddley’s work is rooted in black folklore — things like hambone, but also the figure of Stagger Lee and other characters like the Signifying Monkey — but it should be understood that black American folklore has always included the image of the black cowboy. The combination of these influences – the “Hambone” lyrical ideas, the cowboy rhythm, and the swaggering character Diddley created for himself – became this: [Excerpt: “Bo Diddley” by Bo Diddley] The B-side to the record, meanwhile, was maybe even more important. It’s also an early example of Diddley *not* just reusing his signature rhythm. The popular image of Diddley has him as a one-idea artist remaking the same song over and over again — and certainly he did often return to the Bo Diddley beat — but he was a far more interesting artist than that, and recorded in a far wider variety of styles than you might imagine. And in “I’m A Man” he took on another artist’s style, beating Muddy Waters at his own game. “I’m A Man” was a response to Waters’ earlier “Hoochie Coochie Man”: [Excerpt: “Hoochie Coochie Man”, Muddy Waters] “Hoochie Coochie Man” had been written for Muddy Waters by Willie Dixon and was, as far as I can tell, the first blues record ever to have that da-na-na na-na riff that later became the riff that for most people defines the blues. “Hoochie Coochie Man” had managed to sum up everything about Waters’ persona in a way that Waters himself had never managed with his own songs. It combined sexual braggadocio with hoodoo lore — the character Waters was singing in was possessed of supernatural powers, from the day he was born, and he used those powers to “make pretty women jump and shout”. He had a black cat bone, and a mojo, and a John the Conqueror root. It was a great riff, and a great persona, and a great record. But it was still a conventionally structured sixteen-bar blues, with the normal three chords that almost all blues records have. But Bo Diddley heard that and decided that was two chords too many. When you’ve got a great riff, you don’t *need* chord changes, not if you can just hammer on that riff. So he came up with a variant of Dixon’s song, and called it “I’m a Man”. In his version, there was only the one chord: [Excerpt: Bo Diddley, “I’m a Man”] Willie Dixon guested on bass for that song, as it wasn’t felt that Diddley’s own bass player was getting the feeling right. There were also some changes made to the song in the studio — as Diddley put it later: “They wanted me to spell ‘man’, but they weren’t explaining it right. They couldn’t get me to spell ‘man’. I didn’t understand what they were talking about!” But eventually he did sing that man is spelled m-a-n, and the song went on to be covered by pretty much every British band of the sixties, and become a blues standard. The most important cover version of it though was when Muddy Waters decided to make his own answer record to Diddley, in which he stated that *he* was a man, not a boy like Diddley. Diddley got a co-writing credit on this, though Willie Dixon, whose riff had been the basis of “I’m a Man”, didn’t. [Excerpt: Muddy Waters, “Mannish Boy”] And then there was Etta James’ answer record, “W.O.M.A.N.”, which once again has wild west references in it: [Excerpt: Etta James, “W.O.M.A.N.”] And that… “inspired” Jerry Leiber and Mike Stoller to write this for Peggy Lee: [Excerpt: Peggy Lee, “I’m A Woman”] Of course, none of those records, except Muddy Waters’, gave Bo Diddley a writing credit, just as Diddley didn’t credit Dixon for his riff. At the same session as the single was recorded, Diddley’s harmonica player, Billy Boy Arnold, recorded a single of his own, backed by Diddley and his band. “I’m Sweet on you Baby” wasn’t released at the time, but it’s a much more straightforward blues song, and more like Chess’ normal releases. Chess were interested in making more records with Arnold, but we’ll see that that didn’t turn out well: [Excerpt: Billy Boy Arnold, “I’m Sweet on you Baby”] Despite putting out a truly phenomenal single, Diddley hit upon a real problem with his career, and one that would be one of the reasons he was never as popular as contemporaries like Chuck Berry. The problem, at first, looked like anything but. He was booked on the Ed Sullivan Show to promote his first single. The Ed Sullivan Show was the biggest TV show of the fifties and sixties. A variety show presented by the eponymous Sullivan, who somehow even after twenty years of presenting never managed to look or sound remotely comfortable in front of a camera, it was the programme that boosted Elvis Presley from stardom to superstardom, and which turned the Beatles from a local phenomenon in the UK and Europe into the biggest act the world had ever seen. Getting on it was the biggest possible break Diddley could have got, and it should have made his career. Instead, it was a disaster, all because of a misunderstanding. At the time, the country song “Sixteen Tons” by Tennessee Ernie Ford was a big hit: [Excerpt: “Sixteen Tons”, Tennessee Ernie Ford] Diddley liked the song — enough that he would later record his own version of it: [Excerpt: Bo Diddley, “Sixteen Tons”] And so he was singing it to himself in his dressing room. One of the production staff happened to walk past and hear him, and asked if he could perform that song on the show. Diddley assumed he was being asked if he would do it as well as the song he was there to promote, and was flattered to be asked to do a second song. [Excerpt: Ed Sullivan introducing “Dr Jive”, with all the confusion about what words he’s using] When he got out on to the stage he saw the cue card saying “Bo Diddley Sixteen Tons”, assumed it meant the song “Bo Diddley” followed by the song “Sixteen Tons”, and so he launched into “Bo Diddley”. After all, why would he go on the show to promote someone else’s record? He was there to promote his own debut single. So of course he was going to play it. This was not what the production person had intended, and was not what Ed Sullivan wanted. Backstage, there was a confrontation that got so heated that Diddley had to be physically restrained from beating Sullivan with his guitar after Sullivan called Diddley a “black boy” (according to Diddley, “black” at that time and in that place, was a racial slur, though it’s the polite term to use today). Sullivan yelled and screamed at Diddley and told him he would be blacklisted from network TV, and would certainly never appear on Sullivan’s show again under any circumstances. After that first TV appearance, it would be seven years until Diddley’s second. And unlike all his contemporaries he didn’t even get to appear in films. Even Alan Freed, who greatly respected Diddley and booked him on his live shows, and who Diddley also respected, didn’t have him appear in any of the five rock and roll films he made. As far as I can tell, the two minutes he was on the Ed Sullivan show is the only record of Bo Diddley on film or video from 1955 through 1962. And this meant, as well, that Chess put all their promotional efforts behind Chuck Berry, who for all his faults was more welcome in the TV studios. If Diddley wanted success, he had to let his records and live performances do the work for him, because he wasn’t getting any help from the media. Luckily, his records were great. Not only was Diddley’s first hit one of the great two-sided singles of all time, but his next single was also impressive. The story of “Diddley Daddy” dates back to one of the white cover versions of “Bo Diddley”. Essex Records put out this cover version by Jean Dinning, produced by Dave Miller, who had earlier produced Bill Haley and the Comets’ first records: [Excerpt: Jean Dinning, “Bo Diddley”] And, as with Georgia Gibbs’ version of “Tweedle Dee”, the record label wanted to make the record sound as much like the original as possible, and so tried to get the original musicians to play on it, and made an agreement with Chess. They couldn’t get Bo Diddley himself, and without his tremelo guitar it sounded nothing like the original, but they *did* get Willie Dixon on bass, Diddley’s drummer Clifton James (who sadly isn’t the same Clifton James who played the bumbling sheriff in “Live and Let Die” and “Superman II”, though it would be great if he was), and Billy Boy Arnold on harmonica. But Billy Boy Arnold made the mistake of going to Chess and asking for the money he was owed for the session. Leonard Chess didn’t like when musicians wanted paying, and complained to Bo Diddley about Arnold. Diddley told Arnold that Chess wasn’t happy with him, and so Arnold decided to take a song he’d written, “Diddy Diddy Dum Dum”, to another label rather than give it to Chess. He changed the lyrics around a bit, and called it “I Wish You Would”: [Excerpt: Billy Boy Arnold, “I Wish You Would”] Arnold actually recorded that for Vee-Jay Records on the very day that Bo Diddley’s second single was due to be recorded, and the Diddley session was held up because nobody knew where Arnold was. They eventually found him and got him to Diddley’s session — where Diddley started playing “Diddy Diddy Dum Dum”. Leonard Chess suggested letting Arnold sing the song, but Arnold said “I can’t — I just recorded that for VeeJay”, and showed Chess the contract. Diddley and Harvey Fuqua, who was there to sing backing vocals with the rest of the Moonglows, quickly reworked the song. Arnold didn’t want to play harmonica on something so close to a record he’d just made, though he played on the B-side, and so Muddy Waters’ harmonica player Little Walter filled in instead. The new song, entitled “Diddley Daddy”, became another of Diddley’s signature songs: [Excerpt: Bo Diddley, “Diddley Daddy”] but the B-side, “She’s Fine, She’s Mine”, was the one that would truly become influential: [Excerpt: Bo Diddley, “She’s Fine, She’s Mine”] That song was later slightly reworked into this, by Willie Cobbs: [Excerpt: Willie Cobbs, “You Don’t Love Me”] That song was covered by pretty much every white guitar band of the late sixties — the Grateful Dead, Quicksilver Messenger Service, the Allman Brothers, Steve Stills and Al Kooper… the list goes on. But Cobbs’ song itself was also slightly reworked, by Dawn Penn, in 1967, and became a minor reggae classic. Twenty-seven years later, in 1994, Penn rerecorded her song, based on Cobbs’ song, based on Bo Diddley’s song, and it became a worldwide smash hit, with Diddley getting cowriting credit: [Excerpt: Dawn Penn, “You Don’t Love Me (No, No, No)”] And *that* has later been covered by Beyonce and Rhianna, and sampled by Ghostface Killah and Usher. And that’s how important Bo Diddley was at this point in time. The B-side to his less-good follow-up to his debut provided enough material for sixty years’ worth of hits in styles from R&B to jam band to reggae to hip-hop. And the song “Bo Diddley” itself, of course, would provide a rhythm for generations of musicians to take, everyone from Buddy Holly: [Excerpt: Buddy Holly, “Not Fade Away”] to George Michael: [Excerpt George Michael, “Faith”] to U2: [Excerpt: U2, “Desire”] Because that rhythm was so successful – even though most of the success went to white people who didn’t credit or pay Diddley – people tend to think of Diddley as a one-idea musician, which is far from the truth. Like many of his contemporaries he only had a short period where he was truly inventive — his last truly classic track was recorded in 1962. But that period was an astoundingly inventive one, and we’re going to be seeing him again during the course of this series. In his first four tracks, Diddley had managed to record three of the most influential tracks in rock history. But the next time we look at him, it will be with a song he wrote for other people — a song that would indirectly have massive effects on the whole of popular music.  

Welcome to episode thirty of A History of Rock Music in Five Hundred Songs. This is the last of our three-part look at Chess Records, and focuses on “Bo Diddley” by Bo Diddley. Click the full post to read liner notes, links to more information, and a transcript of the episode.  —-more—- Resources As always, I’ve created a Mixcloud streaming playlist with full versions of all the songs in the episode.I accidentally used a later rerecording of “I Wish You Would” by Billy Boy Arnold on the playlist, but I use the correct version in the podcast itself. Sorry about that. As this is part three of the Chess Records trilogy, you might want to listen to part one, on the Moonglows, and part two, on Chuck Berry, if you haven’t already. Along with the resources mentioned in the previous two episodes, the resource I used most this time was Bo Diddley: Living Legend by George R. White, a strong biography told almost entirely in Diddley’s own words from interviews, and the only full-length book on Diddley. This compilation contains Diddley’s first six albums plus a bunch of non-album and live tracks, and has everything you’re likely to want by Diddley on it, for under ten pounds. If you want to hear more Muddy Waters after hearing his back-and-forth with Diddley, this double CD set is a perfect introduction to him. Patreon This podcast is brought to you by the generosity of my backers on Patreon. Why not join them? Transcript Welcome to the final part of our trilogy about Chess Records. Last week, we looked at Chuck Berry. This week, we’re going to deal with someone who may even have been more important. One of the many injustices in copyright law — and something that we’ll have a lot of cause to mention during the course of this series — is that, for the entire time period covered by this podcast, it was impossible to copyright a groove or a rhythm, but you could copyright a melody line and lyric. And this has led to real inter-racial injustice. In general, black musical culture in the USA has emphasised different aspects of musical invention than white culture has. While white American musical culture — particularly *rich* white musical culture — has stressed inventive melodies and harmonic movement — think of, say, Burt Bacharach or George Gershwin — it has not historically stressed rhythmic invention. On the other hand, black musical culture has stressed that above everything else — you’ll notice that all the rhythmic innovations we’ve talked about in this series so far, like boogie woogie, and the backbeat, and the tresillo rhythm, all came from black musicians. That’s not, of course, to say that black musicians can’t be melodically inventive or white musicians rhythmically — I’m not here saying “black people have a great sense of rhythm” or any of that racist nonsense. I’m just talking about the way that different cultures have prioritised different things. But this means that when black musicians have produced innovative work, it’s not been possible for them to have any intellectual property ownership in the result. You can’t steal a melody by Bacharach, but anyone can play a song with a boogie beat, or a shuffle, or a tresillo… or with the Bo Diddley beat. [Very short excerpt: “Bo Diddley”, Bo Diddley] Elias McDaniel’s distinctive sound came about because he started performing so young that he couldn’t gain entrance to clubs, and so he and his band had to play on street corners. But you can’t cart a drum kit around and use it on the streets, so McDaniel and his band came up with various inventive ways to add percussion to the act. At first, they had someone who would come round with a big bag of sand and empty it onto the pavement. He’d then use a brush on the sand, and the noise of the brushing would provide percussion — at the end of the performance this man, whose name was Sam Daniel but was called Sandman by everyone, would sweep all the sand back up and put it back into his bag for the next show. Eventually, though, Sandman left, and McDaniel hit on the idea of using his girlfriend’s neighbour Jerome Green as part of the act. We heard Jerome last week, playing on “Maybellene”, but he’s someone who there is astonishingly little information about. He doesn’t even have a Wikipedia page, and you’ll find barely more than a few paragraphs about him online. No-one even knows when he was born or died – *if* he died, though he seems to have disappeared around 1972. And this is quite astonishing when you consider that Green played on all Bo Diddley’s classic records, and sang duet on a few of the most successful ones, *and* he played on many of Chuck Berry’s, and on various other records by Willie Dixon, Otis Spann, the Moonglows… yet when you Google him, the third hit that comes up is about Robson Green and Jerome Flynn, a nineties soft-pop duo who span out of a soap opera. At first, Jerome’s job was to pass the hat around and collect the money, but McDaniel decided to build Jerome a pair of maracas, and teach him how to play. And he learned to play very well indeed, adding a Latin sound to what had previously been just a blues band. Jerome’s maracas weren’t the only things that Elias McDaniel built, though. He had a knack for technology, though he was always rather modest about his own abilities. He built himself one of the very first tremelo systems for a guitar, making something out of old car bits and electronic junk that would break the electronic signal up. Before commercial tremelo systems existed, McDaniel was the only one who could make his guitar sound like that. The choppy guitar, with its signal breaking up deliberately, and the maracas being shook frantically, gave McDaniel’s music a rhythmic drive unlike anything else in rock and roll. McDaniel and his band eventually got their music heard by Leonard Chess at Chess Records. Chess was impressed by a song called “Uncle John”, which had lyrics that went “Uncle John’s got corn ain’t never been shucked/Uncle John’s got daughters ain’t never been… to school”; but he said the song needed less salacious lyrics, and he suggested retitling it “Bo Diddley”, which also became the stage name of the man who up until now had been called Elias McDaniel. The new lyrics were inspired by the black folk song “Hambone”, which a few years earlier had become a novelty hit: [Excerpt: “Hambone”, Red Saunders Orchestra with the Hambone Kids] Now, I have to be a bit careful here, because here I’m talking about something that’s from a different culture from my own, and my understanding of it is that of an outsider. To *me*, “Hambone” seems to be a unified thing that’s part song, part dance, part game. But my understanding may be very, very flawed, and I don’t want to pretend to knowledge I don’t have. But this is my best understanding of what “Hambone” is. “Hambone”, like many folk songs, is not in itself a single song, but a collection of different songs with similar elements. The name comes from a dance which, it is said, dates back to enslaved people attempting to entertain themselves. Slaves in most of the US were banned from using drums, because it was believed they might use them to send messages to each other, so when they wanted to dance and sing music, they would slap different parts of their own bodies to provide percussive accompaniment. Now, I tend to be a little dubious of narratives that claim that aspects of twentieth-century black culture date back to slavery or, as people often claim, to Africa. A lot of the time these turn out to be urban myths of the “ring a ring a roses is about the bubonic plague” kind. One of the real tragedies of slavery is that the African culture that the enslaved black people brought over to the US was largely lost in the ensuing centuries, and so there’s a very strong incentive to try to find things that could be a continuation of that. But that’s the story around “Hambone”, which is also known as the “Juba beat”. Another influence Diddley would always cite for the lyrical scansion is the song “Hey Baba Reba”, which he would usually misremember as having been by either Cab Calloway or Louis Jordan, but was actually by Lionel Hampton: [Excerpt: Lionel Hampton, “Hey Baba Reba”] But the important thing to note is that the rhythm of all these records is totally different from the rhythm of the song “Bo Diddley”. There’s a bit of misinformation that goes around in almost every article about Diddley, saying “the Bo Diddley beat is just the ‘Hambone’ beat”, and while Diddley would correct this in almost every interview he ever gave, the misinformation would persist — to the point that when I first heard “Hambone” I was shocked, because I’d assumed that there must at least have been some slight similarity. There’s no similarity at all. And that’s not the only song where I’ve seen claims that there’s a Bo Diddley beat where none exists. As a reminder, here’s the actual Bo Diddley rhythm: [Very short excerpt: Bo Diddley, “Bo Diddley”] Now the PhD thesis on the development of the backbeat which I talked about back in episode two claims that the beat appears on about thirteen records before Diddley’s, mostly by people we’ve discussed before, like Louis Jordan, Johnny Otis, Fats Domino, and Roy Brown. But here’s a couple of examples of the songs that thesis cites. Here’s “Mardi Gras in New Orleans” by Fats Domino: [Excerpt: “Mardi Gras in New Orleans, Fats Domino] And here’s “That’s Your Last Boogie”, by Joe Swift, produced by Johnny Otis: [Excerpt: Joe Swift, “That’s Your Last Boogie”] As you can hear, they both have something that’s *sort of* the Bo Diddley beat, but not really, among their other rhythms. It’s most notable at the very start of “That’s Your Last Boogie” [Intro: “That’s Your Last Boogie”] That’s what’s called a clave beat — it’s sort of like the tresillo, with an extra bom-bom on the end. Bom bom-bom, bom-bom. That’s not the Bo Diddley beat. The Bo Diddley beat actually varies subtly from bar to bar, but it’s generally a sort of chunk-a chunk-a-chunk a-chunk a-chunk ah. It certainly stresses the five beats of the clave, but it’s not them, and nor is it the “shave and a haircut, two bits” rhythm other people seem to claim for it. Most ridiculously, Wikipedia even claims that the Andrews Sisters’ version of Lord Invader’s great calypso song, “Rum and Coca Cola”, has the Bo Diddley beat: [Excerpt: “Rum and Coca Cola”, the Andrews Sisters] Both records have maracas, but that’s about it. Incidentally, that song was, in the Andrews Sisters version, credited to a white American thief rather than to the black Trinidadian men who wrote it. Sadly appropriate for a song about the exploitation of Trinidadians for “the Yankee dollar”. But none of these records have the Bo Diddley beat, despite what anyone might say. None of them even sound very much like Diddley’s beat at all. The origins of the Bo Diddley beat were, believe it or not, with Gene Autry. We’ve talked before about Autry, who was the biggest Western music star of the late thirties and early forties, and who inspired all sorts of people you wouldn’t expect, from Les Paul to Hank Ballard. But Diddley hit upon his rhythm when trying to play Autry’s “I’ve Got Spurs That Jingle Jangle Jingle”. [excerpt, Gene Autry, “I’ve Got Spurs that Jingle Jangle Jingle”] No, I don’t see the resemblance either. But this ties back into what we were talking about last week, with the influence of country musicians on the blues and R&B musicians at Chess. And if you become familiar with his later work, it becomes clear that Diddley truly loved the whole iconography of the Western, and country music. He did albums called “Have Guitar Will Travel” (named after the Western TV show “Have Gun Will Travel”) and “Bo Diddley is a Gunslinger”. Diddley’s work is rooted in black folklore — things like hambone, but also the figure of Stagger Lee and other characters like the Signifying Monkey — but it should be understood that black American folklore has always included the image of the black cowboy. The combination of these influences – the “Hambone” lyrical ideas, the cowboy rhythm, and the swaggering character Diddley created for himself – became this: [Excerpt: “Bo Diddley” by Bo Diddley] The B-side to the record, meanwhile, was maybe even more important. It’s also an early example of Diddley *not* just reusing his signature rhythm. The popular image of Diddley has him as a one-idea artist remaking the same song over and over again — and certainly he did often return to the Bo Diddley beat — but he was a far more interesting artist than that, and recorded in a far wider variety of styles than you might imagine. And in “I’m A Man” he took on another artist’s style, beating Muddy Waters at his own game. “I’m A Man” was a response to Waters’ earlier “Hoochie Coochie Man”: [Excerpt: “Hoochie Coochie Man”, Muddy Waters] “Hoochie Coochie Man” had been written for Muddy Waters by Willie Dixon and was, as far as I can tell, the first blues record ever to have that da-na-na na-na riff that later became the riff that for most people defines the blues. “Hoochie Coochie Man” had managed to sum up everything about Waters’ persona in a way that Waters himself had never managed with his own songs. It combined sexual braggadocio with hoodoo lore — the character Waters was singing in was possessed of supernatural powers, from the day he was born, and he used those powers to “make pretty women jump and shout”. He had a black cat bone, and a mojo, and a John the Conqueror root. It was a great riff, and a great persona, and a great record. But it was still a conventionally structured sixteen-bar blues, with the normal three chords that almost all blues records have. But Bo Diddley heard that and decided that was two chords too many. When you’ve got a great riff, you don’t *need* chord changes, not if you can just hammer on that riff. So he came up with a variant of Dixon’s song, and called it “I’m a Man”. In his version, there was only the one chord: [Excerpt: Bo Diddley, “I’m a Man”] Willie Dixon guested on bass for that song, as it wasn’t felt that Diddley’s own bass player was getting the feeling right. There were also some changes made to the song in the studio — as Diddley put it later: “They wanted me to spell ‘man’, but they weren’t explaining it right. They couldn’t get me to spell ‘man’. I didn’t understand what they were talking about!” But eventually he did sing that man is spelled m-a-n, and the song went on to be covered by pretty much every British band of the sixties, and become a blues standard. The most important cover version of it though was when Muddy Waters decided to make his own answer record to Diddley, in which he stated that *he* was a man, not a boy like Diddley. Diddley got a co-writing credit on this, though Willie Dixon, whose riff had been the basis of “I’m a Man”, didn’t. [Excerpt: Muddy Waters, “Mannish Boy”] And then there was Etta James’ answer record, “W.O.M.A.N.”, which once again has wild west references in it: [Excerpt: Etta James, “W.O.M.A.N.”] And that… “inspired” Jerry Leiber and Mike Stoller to write this for Peggy Lee: [Excerpt: Peggy Lee, “I’m A Woman”] Of course, none of those records, except Muddy Waters’, gave Bo Diddley a writing credit, just as Diddley didn’t credit Dixon for his riff. At the same session as the single was recorded, Diddley’s harmonica player, Billy Boy Arnold, recorded a single of his own, backed by Diddley and his band. “I’m Sweet on you Baby” wasn’t released at the time, but it’s a much more straightforward blues song, and more like Chess’ normal releases. Chess were interested in making more records with Arnold, but we’ll see that that didn’t turn out well: [Excerpt: Billy Boy Arnold, “I’m Sweet on you Baby”] Despite putting out a truly phenomenal single, Diddley hit upon a real problem with his career, and one that would be one of the reasons he was never as popular as contemporaries like Chuck Berry. The problem, at first, looked like anything but. He was booked on the Ed Sullivan Show to promote his first single. The Ed Sullivan Show was the biggest TV show of the fifties and sixties. A variety show presented by the eponymous Sullivan, who somehow even after twenty years of presenting never managed to look or sound remotely comfortable in front of a camera, it was the programme that boosted Elvis Presley from stardom to superstardom, and which turned the Beatles from a local phenomenon in the UK and Europe into the biggest act the world had ever seen. Getting on it was the biggest possible break Diddley could have got, and it should have made his career. Instead, it was a disaster, all because of a misunderstanding. At the time, the country song “Sixteen Tons” by Tennessee Ernie Ford was a big hit: [Excerpt: “Sixteen Tons”, Tennessee Ernie Ford] Diddley liked the song — enough that he would later record his own version of it: [Excerpt: Bo Diddley, “Sixteen Tons”] And so he was singing it to himself in his dressing room. One of the production staff happened to walk past and hear him, and asked if he could perform that song on the show. Diddley assumed he was being asked if he would do it as well as the song he was there to promote, and was flattered to be asked to do a second song. [Excerpt: Ed Sullivan introducing “Dr Jive”, with all the confusion about what words he’s using] When he got out on to the stage he saw the cue card saying “Bo Diddley Sixteen Tons”, assumed it meant the song “Bo Diddley” followed by the song “Sixteen Tons”, and so he launched into “Bo Diddley”. After all, why would he go on the show to promote someone else’s record? He was there to promote his own debut single. So of course he was going to play it. This was not what the production person had intended, and was not what Ed Sullivan wanted. Backstage, there was a confrontation that got so heated that Diddley had to be physically restrained from beating Sullivan with his guitar after Sullivan called Diddley a “black boy” (according to Diddley, “black” at that time and in that place, was a racial slur, though it’s the polite term to use today). Sullivan yelled and screamed at Diddley and told him he would be blacklisted from network TV, and would certainly never appear on Sullivan’s show again under any circumstances. After that first TV appearance, it would be seven years until Diddley’s second. And unlike all his contemporaries he didn’t even get to appear in films. Even Alan Freed, who greatly respected Diddley and booked him on his live shows, and who Diddley also respected, didn’t have him appear in any of the five rock and roll films he made. As far as I can tell, the two minutes he was on the Ed Sullivan show is the only record of Bo Diddley on film or video from 1955 through 1962. And this meant, as well, that Chess put all their promotional efforts behind Chuck Berry, who for all his faults was more welcome in the TV studios. If Diddley wanted success, he had to let his records and live performances do the work for him, because he wasn’t getting any help from the media. Luckily, his records were great. Not only was Diddley’s first hit one of the great two-sided singles of all time, but his next single was also impressive. The story of “Diddley Daddy” dates back to one of the white cover versions of “Bo Diddley”. Essex Records put out this cover version by Jean Dinning, produced by Dave Miller, who had earlier produced Bill Haley and the Comets’ first records: [Excerpt: Jean Dinning, “Bo Diddley”] And, as with Georgia Gibbs’ version of “Tweedle Dee”, the record label wanted to make the record sound as much like the original as possible, and so tried to get the original musicians to play on it, and made an agreement with Chess. They couldn’t get Bo Diddley himself, and without his tremelo guitar it sounded nothing like the original, but they *did* get Willie Dixon on bass, Diddley’s drummer Clifton James (who sadly isn’t the same Clifton James who played the bumbling sheriff in “Live and Let Die” and “Superman II”, though it would be great if he was), and Billy Boy Arnold on harmonica. But Billy Boy Arnold made the mistake of going to Chess and asking for the money he was owed for the session. Leonard Chess didn’t like when musicians wanted paying, and complained to Bo Diddley about Arnold. Diddley told Arnold that Chess wasn’t happy with him, and so Arnold decided to take a song he’d written, “Diddy Diddy Dum Dum”, to another label rather than give it to Chess. He changed the lyrics around a bit, and called it “I Wish You Would”: [Excerpt: Billy Boy Arnold, “I Wish You Would”] Arnold actually recorded that for Vee-Jay Records on the very day that Bo Diddley’s second single was due to be recorded, and the Diddley session was held up because nobody knew where Arnold was. They eventually found him and got him to Diddley’s session — where Diddley started playing “Diddy Diddy Dum Dum”. Leonard Chess suggested letting Arnold sing the song, but Arnold said “I can’t — I just recorded that for VeeJay”, and showed Chess the contract. Diddley and Harvey Fuqua, who was there to sing backing vocals with the rest of the Moonglows, quickly reworked the song. Arnold didn’t want to play harmonica on something so close to a record he’d just made, though he played on the B-side, and so Muddy Waters’ harmonica player Little Walter filled in instead. The new song, entitled “Diddley Daddy”, became another of Diddley’s signature songs: [Excerpt: Bo Diddley, “Diddley Daddy”] but the B-side, “She’s Fine, She’s Mine”, was the one that would truly become influential: [Excerpt: Bo Diddley, “She’s Fine, She’s Mine”] That song was later slightly reworked into this, by Willie Cobbs: [Excerpt: Willie Cobbs, “You Don’t Love Me”] That song was covered by pretty much every white guitar band of the late sixties — the Grateful Dead, Quicksilver Messenger Service, the Allman Brothers, Steve Stills and Al Kooper… the list goes on. But Cobbs’ song itself was also slightly reworked, by Dawn Penn, in 1967, and became a minor reggae classic. Twenty-seven years later, in 1994, Penn rerecorded her song, based on Cobbs’ song, based on Bo Diddley’s song, and it became a worldwide smash hit, with Diddley getting cowriting credit: [Excerpt: Dawn Penn, “You Don’t Love Me (No, No, No)”] And *that* has later been covered by Beyonce and Rhianna, and sampled by Ghostface Killah and Usher. And that’s how important Bo Diddley was at this point in time. The B-side to his less-good follow-up to his debut provided enough material for sixty years’ worth of hits in styles from R&B to jam band to reggae to hip-hop. And the song “Bo Diddley” itself, of course, would provide a rhythm for generations of musicians to take, everyone from Buddy Holly: [Excerpt: Buddy Holly, “Not Fade Away”] to George Michael: [Excerpt George Michael, “Faith”] to U2: [Excerpt: U2, “Desire”] Because that rhythm was so successful – even though most of the success went to white people who didn’t credit or pay Diddley – people tend to think of Diddley as a one-idea musician, which is far from the truth. Like many of his contemporaries he only had a short period where he was truly inventive — his last truly classic track was recorded in 1962. But that period was an astoundingly inventive one, and we’re going to be seeing him again during the course of this series. In his first four tracks, Diddley had managed to record three of the most influential tracks in rock history. But the next time we look at him, it will be with a song he wrote for other people — a song that would indirectly have massive effects on the whole of popular music.  

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Stream episodes on demand from www.bitesz.com (mobile friendly). Loving Vincent (Animation, Biography, Crime) In a story depicted in oil painted animation, a young man comes to the last hometown of painter Vincent van Gogh to deliver the troubled artist's final letter and ends up investigating his final days there. Directors: Dorota Kobiela, Hugh Welchman Writers: Dorota Kobiela, Hugh Welchman Stars: Douglas Booth, Jerome Flynn, Robert Gulaczyk – (IMDb) Movies First RSS feed: https://audioboom.com/channels/4673419.rss Subscribe, rate and review Movies First at all good podcatcher apps, including Apple Podcasts (formerly iTunes), Stitcher, PocketCasts, audioBoom, CastBox.fm, Podbean, Spreaker etc. For more, follow Movies First on Facebook, twitter and Google+: Facebook - @moviesfirst twitter - @ moviesfirst Google+ - https://plus.google.com/u/2/collection/8p-OaB If you're enjoying Movies First, please share and tell your friends. Your support would be appreciated...thank you. #movies #cinema #entertainment #podcast #reviews #moviesfirst Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

Spoilers, profanity, Jaime x Brienne. This episode we’re full of realizations: Jerome Flynn pretty much owns the role of Bronn. GRRM is wrong (tune in to find out why), but we totally are the mountain clans, packing up a goat in our inventory for the road. Tyrion appears to be a morning person, but probably not much of a goat milker. Mord should not go to Casterly to get what Tyrion owes him. And in keeping up with the goat theme of this ep, GRRM probably has a greasy goat beard. Game of Thrones. A Song of Ice and Fire. A Game of Thrones – Tyrion VI. Close the Door and Come Here – Episode 188

weitere Serien: - American Horror Storys - Staffel 4 - Black Mirror - Staffel 1 - Broadchurch - Staffel 2 -- Eve Myles, Torchwood, The Philosophers - Brooklin Nine-Nine - Staffel 2 -- Modern Family - Doctor Who (2005) - Staffel 9 -- Peter Capaldi - Falling Skies - Staffel 3-4 - Gilmore Girls - Staffel 1-2 -- Lauren Graham, Bad Santa, Schöne Bescherung, Die schrillen Vier auf Achse (YouTube) - iZombie - Staffel 1 -- Supernatural - Modern Family - Staffel 5 - Person of Interest - Staffel 3 - Ripper Street - Staffel 3 -- Jerome Flynn, Deadwood - Skins Staffel 1-7 -- (auch bei Game of Thrones: Hannah Murray, Joe Dempsie, Jacob Anderson) - Suits - Staffel 1-4 -- How to get away with a murderer, Der Richter - Supernatural - Staffel 5-6 - The Big Bang Theory - Staffel 8 -- Amy Farrah Fowler - The Walking Dead - Staffel 6 -- Jeffrey Dean Morgan - Voll daneben, voll im Leben (Freaks & Geeks) - Staffel 1 -- Das ist das Ende deutsche Serien: - Jennifer - Sehnsucht nach was Besseres - Staffel 1 -- deutsche Serien, ZDF-Neo, Deutschlandfunk Podcast-Abos, DRadio Wissen Podcast-Abos - Weißensee - Staffel 1-3 Animes: - Deadman Wonderland - Lenas Ranch - Staffel 1 - My little Pony: Freundschaft ist Magie - Staffel 1 - Rick and Morty - Staffel 1 - Wakfu - Staffel 1-2 -- Archer, Marseille, Narcos Dokus: - Unser Kosmos - Die Reise geht weiter - Staffel 1 Filme: Back in Time, Beltracchi, die Kunst der Fälschung, The Captains Close Up - Scott Pilgrim gegen den Rest der Welt - Vielleicht lieber morgen -- Emma Watson - Kriegerin - Carrie (1976 und 2013) -- Die Vögel, Das Fenster zum Hof - Lucy / Unter the Skin -- Scarlett Johanson - Sherlock, the abominable Bride - Hard Candy - 22 Jump Street - Hot Fuzz -- Bang Boom Bang - Argo -- Django Unchained, The Hateful 8

Zweiter Teil zusammen mit Hausmeister Willi!!! weitere Serien: - American Horror Storys - Staffel 4 - Black Mirror - Staffel 1 - Broadchurch - Staffel 2 -- Eve Myles, Torchwood, The Philosophers - Brooklin Nine-Nine - Staffel 2 -- Modern Family - Doctor Who (2005) - Staffel 9 -- Peter Capaldi - Falling Skies - Staffel 3-4 - Gilmore Girls - Staffel 1-2 -- Lauren Graham, Bad Santa, Schöne Bescherung, Die schrillen Vier auf Achse (YouTube) - iZombie - Staffel 1 -- Supernatural - Modern Family - Staffel 5 - Person of Interest - Staffel 3 - Ripper Street - Staffel 3 -- Jerome Flynn, Deadwood - Skins Staffel 1-7 -- (auch bei Game of Thrones: Hannah Murray, Joe Dempsie, Jacob Anderson) - Suits - Staffel 1-4 -- How to get away with a murderer, Der Richter - Supernatural - Staffel 5-6 - The Big Bang Theory - Staffel 8 -- Amy Farrah Fowler - The Walking Dead - Staffel 6 -- Jeffrey Dean Morgan - Voll daneben, voll im Leben (Freaks & Geeks) - Staffel 1 -- Das ist das Ende deutsche Serien: - Jennifer - Sehnsucht nach was Besseres - Staffel 1 -- deutsche Serien, ZDF-Neo, Deutschlandfunk Podcast-Abos, DRadio Wissen Podcast-Abos - Weißensee - Staffel 1-3 Animes: - Deadman Wonderland - Lenas Ranch - Staffel 1 - My little Pony: Freundschaft ist Magie - Staffel 1 - Rick and Morty - Staffel 1 - Wakfu - Staffel 1-2 -- Archer, Marseille, Narcos Dokus: - Unser Kosmos - Die Reise geht weiter - Staffel 1 Filme: Back in Time, Beltracchi, die Kunst der Fälschung, The Captains Close Up - Scott Pilgrim gegen den Rest der Welt - Vielleicht lieber morgen -- Emma Watson - Kriegerin - Carrie (1976 und 2013) -- Die Vögel, Das Fenster zum Hof - Lucy / Unter the Skin -- Scarlett Johanson - Sherlock, the abominable Bride - Hard Candy - 22 Jump Street - Hot Fuzz -- Bang Boom Bang - Argo -- Django Unchained, The Hateful 8 Dieser Podcast, so wie Intro-, Outro und Trennmusik von Beggar's Velvet's Song Blind, stehen unter der Lizenz CC BY-NC-SA 4.0

Welcome to the first Viva! Radio podcast, hosted by Kris Townsend. (See viva.org.uk/vivaradio) With experts in each field, there's something here for everyone. From animal rights, vegan campaigning, tasty cruelty-free cookery and optimum vegan health. Each episode has the latest news, views and interviews from Viva!, Viva! Health and special guests. We also have delicious recipes from Vegan Recipe Club alongside music, vegan events and product reviews.      COMING UP... our exclusive interview with Game of Thrones & Ripper St actor Jerome Flynn. we talk with Viva! founder Juliet Gellatley in the first part of a six-part interview discussing the history of Viva!. our guest chef Bettina Bordi from talks us through how to make a delicious 2 minute, dairy-free chocolate mousse Listen to the toll on our oceans in ‘Out Of Sight, Out Of Mind’ by Viva!Health’s Veronika Powell shares her new findings in ‘The Incredible Vegan Health Report’ Hear an excerpt from a video report by vegan vlogger . Viva! Veganista’s Hannah Kelly Price introduces our weekly, monthly  and yearly Viva! Veganista competition that anyone can enter and win! We play 'No Beef', a potential vegan anthem by local musos . Alongside that we have the latest vegan tips, news and views plus advance word of the coming up this November 2016 in Bristol, UK, the home of Viva!     Follow Viva! on , and .

Jerome is a talented actor with many years experience in the industry whether it be as the loveable rogue Paddy Garvey back in the days of Soldier Soldier, or his more recent appearances as Det Sgt Bennet Drake in Ripper Street, and Bronn in Game of Thrones, he has always entertained. --- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app

Spoilers Contained! Game of Thrones "Mother's Mercy" Stannis arrives at Winterfell. Tyrion runs Meereen as Daario and Jorah go after Daenerys. Jamie and Myrcella leave Dorne. Jon sends Sam and Gilly to Oldtown. Arya challenges the many faced god. Cersei confesses her sins.-IMDB Starring: Peter Dinklage, Nikolaj Coster-Waldau, Lena Headey, Emilia Clarke, Kit Harington, Aidan Gillen, Charles Dance, Natalie Dormer, Liam Cunningham, Stephen Dillane, Carice van Houten, Alfie Allen, John Bradley, Jack Gleeson, Isaac Hempstead-Wright, Rory McCann, Sophie Turner, Maisie Williams, Gwendoline Christie, Jerome Flynn, Conleth Hill, Iwan Rheon, Pedro Pascal, and Iain Glen Jessica and Dean's Discussion Notes And now Jessica's watch has endedStannis had to show upAbandoned and aloneA fitting and tragic endA complicated murdererClassic woman stuffBrienne's conflicting loyaltiesStaying strong to the Stannis characterNo body - no deathBrienne's infiltration skillsMiranda's swan diveTheon's choice to assist SansaNot enough time spent with Winterfell and SansaNewsflash: Jessica hates DorneWe were excited for uncle/dad JamieThe possible ramifications of Myrcella's deathTwo gold crowns down and one to goDeath by DornePrince Doran knows all about war, he's been in the holodeckHigh stakes murderEllaria the Ambassador of DorneThree Men and a DragonGrey Worm all tuckered out from his fight from 3 years agoWesteros AIDSThe urban hand waveIs there anything Tyrion can't do?Grey Worm the State Figurehead... apparentlyJorah offs Daario during their roadshowTyrion and Varys will run the pants off of MereenThe pull-away and Arrested DevelopmentPeter Dinklage will make Mereen more interestingDaenerys' relationship status with the Dothraki?You can never have a big enough armyArya goes rogue and crosses a name off her listArya Stark is Arya StarkThe best payoff all season was in BraavosFist pumping moments among the miseryNone of those boobs are hersSaving money on the nudity3 days to film and 7 days to watchIs Cersei changed?Qyburn bought himself longevity is Cersei gains powerYou reap what you sowWhat the heck is Mace Tyrell doing?Sam knows how to spot a sinking shipNot too injured for the bangingIf the Red Woman has lost her composure - things are badThoros of Myr, Beric Dondarrion, and the power of magicFor the watchThe sub-host cried her eyes outDean gets Shakespeare mad!If only Stannis was Olly's fatherFor the watch -- a mini-rant!Jon Snow will be backDeciphering Kit Harrington's interview quotes from variety.comNed and Jon's deaths feel similarKit Harrington coming into his own this seasonListener commentsDragon glass wrapped in baconRando homeless perv full-frontalEyebrow trimming celebrity makeoverThanks to all of our listeners for making this possible and for making it tons of fun ContactEmailSpeak Pipe Subscribe to LSG's "A Game of Thrones Podcast"iTunesStitcherRSS: http://gotonlsg.libsyn.com/rss(Cut and paste RSS address into podcasting app search function) Subscribe to LSG's "The Walking Dead Podcast"iTunesStitcherRSS: http://twdonlsg.libsyn.com/rss(Cut and paste RSS address into podcasting app search function) Subscribe to LSG's "The Science Fiction Film Podcast"iTunesStitcherRSS: http://sciencefictionfilmpodcast.libsyn.com/rss(Cut and paste RSS address into podcasting app search function) SupportPatreonWebsite

  Spoilers Contained! Game of Thrones "The Dance of Dragons" Jon and the Wildlings return to Castle Black. Jamie meets with Doran Martell. Stannis makes a hard choice. Arya runs into Ser Meryn Trant. Daenerys attends the grand reopening of the fighting pits.-IMDB Starring: Peter Dinklage, Nikolaj Coster-Waldau, Lena Headey, Emilia Clarke, Kit Harington, Aidan Gillen, Charles Dance, Natalie Dormer, Liam Cunningham, Stephen Dillane, Carice van Houten, Alfie Allen, John Bradley, Jack Gleeson, Isaac Hempstead-Wright, Rory McCann, Sophie Turner, Maisie Williams, Gwendoline Christie, Jerome Flynn, Conleth Hill, Iwan Rheon, Pedro Pascal, and Iain Glen Jessica and Dean's Discussion Notes A True Detective announcement!The boring stuff... (Dorne)A Klingon proverbBack to Star Trek!The best moment in an otherwise dull plot lineKeeping it in the familyThe Ellaria situationSmall competition on the Small CouncilPrince Doran's graceBed time murder showsWhat is Olly up to?Emo Snow rears his ugly (and sad) headSigning off of the minor's sex scenesMeryn Trant is a bad guy... come to find outOff the beaten pathTelegraphing Shireen's death for the sake of the viewers50 Shades of Gray MoralityA VERY successful raidA Stannis rant...The trolley problem, morality, and logical fallacyWho do you root for?When does the sacrificing end: Part IStannis, you had me fooledStannis is playing the NOW game, and not the long gameStannis the Vampire SlayerWould Stannis sacrifice himself for the realm?Did Davos drop the ball?Bystanders aren't compelled to actSometimes a person has to chooseA false dichotomyWhen does the sacrificing end: Part IIThe show stuck to its guns and didn't cop-outDon't burn your family membersDean's new hype manSketchy HizdahrTyrion likely planned to council the queen on publicly shaming the KingOFFENDED!How does one spread Grayscale?Gunna' need a bigger throneJorah couldn't have looked slower in the fighting pitI've worn my piss-yellow tunic for youCool Harpy music!Anyone seen the Unsullied?Jorah's opportunity to save his Queen is a bit contrivedRoaring at the television while Drogon torches the SonsDaenerys saves her child unlike StannisDragon rides for all!Some of it looked a little silly...Listener commentsA raging throner?Stealth zombiesOutrage BrigadeBig Lou's mysterious pastA better weather sacrificeFlaming my homies!Rem of the Sci-Fi Movie PodcastGoin' all Basic InstinctWho would want to bang a Grayscale survivorOllie killing Jon Snow...?I for one welcome our new Undead OverlordsWesteros AIDS?!Final thoughts and listener predictions ContactEmailSpeak Pipe Subscribe to LSG's "A Game of Thrones Podcast"iTunesStitcherRSS: http://gotonlsg.libsyn.com/rss(Cut and paste RSS address into podcasting app search function) Subscribe to LSG's "The Walking Dead Podcast"iTunesStitcherRSS: http://twdonlsg.libsyn.com/rss(Cut and paste RSS address into podcasting app search function) Subscribe to LSG's "The Science Fiction Film Podcast"iTunesStitcherRSS: http://sciencefictionfilmpodcast.libsyn.com/rss(Cut and paste RSS address into podcasting app search function) SupportPatreonWebsite

Spoilers Contained! Game of Thrones "Hardhome" Tyrion advises Daenerys. Sansa forces Theon to tell her a secret. Cersei remains stubborn. Arya meets her first target. Jon and Tormund meet with the Wildling Elders.-IMDB Starring: Peter Dinklage, Nikolaj Coster-Waldau, Lena Headey, Emilia Clarke, Kit Harington, Aidan Gillen, Charles Dance, Natalie Dormer, Liam Cunningham, Stephen Dillane, Carice van Houten, Alfie Allen, John Bradley, Jack Gleeson, Isaac Hempstead-Wright, Rory McCann, Sophie Turner, Maisie Williams, Gwendoline Christie, Jerome Flynn, Conleth Hill, Iwan Rheon, Pedro Pascal, and Iain Glen Jessica and Dean's Discussion Notes Tyrion's meeting with Daenerys was overshadowed... somehowIs Arya's story line the most overshadowed?Jessica has given up on TheonDean's grandmother's arm wrestling prowessOverwhelming listener supportFornication... oh my! Part ITheon's revealSansa reinvigorated with the news of Bran and RickonWho mourns the farmer's kids?20 good menRoose's plan is legitimateVisualizing Ramsay's plan is difficultArya, The Gambler, and the Thin ManUnderstanding the sailor's gambleA medieval life insurance policyAn assassin's pathHoping for a good payoff with AryaFornication... oh my! Part IIThe tall lady wants a confessionLow-angle D picsHoping Cersei gets to fulfill her wishThe Frankenmountain Who Still Rides!Uncle Kev is in the houseKing Tommen ain't coming out!Qyburn's plan for Cersei to confessMother's Mercy?What will Kevan Lannister doStrong Lannister bondsKing's Landing's tap waterThe enemy of my enemy and stuff...Sam wants to "talk about it"Suck it up Ollie, it's only your entire familyTyrion is awesome -- in case you didn't knowAre you worthy of my service?Tyrion's ability to navigate all social stratospheresTyrion literally distances himself from JorahJorah is going off the deep endTyrion putting up with Jorah's story of Daenerys and her golden hairTyrion's invaluable experienceDoes Daenerys inspire Tyrion to believe in breaking the wheelWhere are you Varys?Undead Mountain that Rides!Jorah's obsession returns, Mark Wahlberg styleDon't mess with TormundThe hottest woman of all time... according to JessicaAt least we'll give them a fightNo build-up to the White Walker fightDid the fog turn the Wildlings on the other side of the gate?The battle as a mini-episodeWun Wun!Is the show spoiling the books?Jessica references TitanicThe implacable undeadWightsA wake-up call for everyoneJon Snow's brush with deathMaternal overload unto deathEpic giant stomps!Dragons are like lizards...?Listener commentsJorsicca draws a woman she lovesFantasy vs. Horror undeadMastadon!His name is now Big LouTyrion's need to feel usefulFinal thoughts ContactEmailSpeak Pipe Subscribe to LSG's "A Game of Thrones Podcast"iTunesStitcherRSS: http://gotonlsg.libsyn.com/rss(Cut and paste RSS address into podcasting app search function) Subscribe to LSG's "The Walking Dead Podcast"iTunesStitcherRSS: http://twdonlsg.libsyn.com/rss(Cut and paste RSS address into podcasting app search function) Subscribe to LSG's "The Science Fiction Film Podcast"iTunesStitcherRSS: http://sciencefictionfilmpodcast.libsyn.com/rss(Cut and paste RSS address into podcasting app search function) SupportPatreonWebsite

Spoilers Contained! Game of Thrones "The Gift" Jon heads east as trouble begins to stir for Sam and Gilly at Castle Black. Sansa asks Theon for help. Tyrion and Jorah are sold as slaves. Cersei savers her triumph over the Tyrells as new plots are developed in the shadows.-IMDB Starring: Peter Dinklage, Nikolaj Coster-Waldau, Lena Headey, Emilia Clarke, Kit Harington, Aidan Gillen, Charles Dance, Natalie Dormer, Liam Cunningham, Stephen Dillane, Carice van Houten, Alfie Allen, John Bradley, Jack Gleeson, Isaac Hempstead-Wright, Rory McCann, Sophie Turner, Maisie Williams, Gwendoline Christie, Jerome Flynn, Conleth Hill, Iwan Rheon, Pedro Pascal, and Iain Glen Jessica and Dean's Discussion Notes The OffenderatiIt was kind of, "meh."Theon blue ballsA glorious side haunchSacred vows be damned - 05:22What color is Sam's parachute?Jet Blue direct flightsAemon is crazy... and forever deadEmpty hopelessness in lifeD&D are trolling usAlliser's terrible funeral mannersDean screws up the episode orderSam finds courage - 14:48Learn to swing a sword dudeCourage in the face of fearA list of people Jessica hopes Ghost eatsThe King Who Ran...? - 20:00We've lost confidence in Stannis potenceIt's been 4 days since Stannis burned someoneLet's talk Winterfell - 25:32Joffrey vs. RamsayDean sticks up for Joffrey...?Oh Theon - 31:19Will Theon become emotionally compelled enough to act?Sansa will kill Theon once she has an escape optionHow does Brienne factor into it allAlways under lock and keyDorne is kind of a let down except for Bronn's pipes - 40:08We need more Bashir!Showing your boobs to rando-dudesDid she use boob magic against Bronn?Princess rescue tropeEveryone talks wrong tonight - 48:45Jorah, Tyrion, and The Mother of Dragons - 50:20Slave movie tropePeter Dinklage is the bestDaario the ButcherFighting pits RETURN!Emilia Clarke's subtle acting was excellentAren't those slaves fighting? - 57:33My name is Tyrion LannisterDaenerys finally is connected to the rest of the showWhere is Varys?I'll kill them all... after I cry with my mommy - 1:02:20Bested by an old man with dirty feetThe High Sparrow's ambitions are larger than he pretendsLittlefinger's gifts and plans - 1:09:09If Robin becomes king...Why can't Cersei just fall in line for the sake of her son?The prophecy from episode one could be bad news for TommenA dramatic entrance - 1:18:55Listener comments - 1:21:46Final thoughts ContactEmailSpeak Pipe Subscribe to LSG's "A Game of Thrones Podcast"iTunesStitcherRSS: http://gotonlsg.libsyn.com/rss(Cut and paste RSS address into podcasting app search function) Subscribe to LSG's "The Walking Dead Podcast"iTunesStitcherRSS: http://twdonlsg.libsyn.com/rss(Cut and paste RSS address into podcasting app search function) Subscribe to LSG's "The Science Fiction Film Podcast"iTunesStitcherRSS: http://sciencefictionfilmpodcast.libsyn.com/rss(Cut and paste RSS address into podcasting app search function) SupportPatreonWebsite

Spoilers Contained! Game of Thrones "Unbowed, Unbent, Unbroken" Arya is put to the test. Tyrion and Jorah are captured by slavers. Loras Tyrell is judged by the Sparrows. Jamie and Bronn face the Sand Snakes. Sansa marries Ramsay Bolton.-IMDB Starring: Peter Dinklage, Nikolaj Coster-Waldau, Lena Headey, Emilia Clarke, Kit Harington, Aidan Gillen, Charles Dance, Natalie Dormer, Liam Cunningham, Stephen Dillane, Carice van Houten, Alfie Allen, John Bradley, Jack Gleeson, Isaac Hempstead-Wright, Rory McCann, Sophie Turner, Maisie Williams, Gwendoline Christie, Jerome Flynn, Conleth Hill, Iwan Rheon, Pedro Pascal, and Iain Glen Jessica and Dean's Discussion Notes The Stark work ethic revealedFaceatoriumBad lyingDrink the waterBecoming someone elseJorah and Tyrion - 15:00Dean's fighting pit prediction explainedTyrion's inquisitive nature - 21:49Jorah's contract with HBOBegging for your lifeRub it for good luckJorah's fighting cred***The sining murderer - 29:23Trystane is ready!Uncle Jamie...?Sand Snakes Attack! - 31:56Jorah's alleyway sketchesEllaria is sickeningRaven phone!A hotbed of intrigue - 36:43Littlefinger's schemesA truth of little consequenceManipulating Cersei is a dangerous game - 41:01How will Cersei handle Sansa?A holy inquest - 48:00Sexy (but very dirty) LorasLoras' waning storyline - 51:20A queen arrested - 56:04Cersei's full-court pressA somber wedding in the North - 1:01:32Sophie Turner is formidableMiranda... give it upRamsay's mistakes with Reek - 1:05:10Is Ramsay worse than Joffrey?Theon's choice to close the doorOffended! - 1:09:25Ramsay gives Sansa a teddy bearI'm still offended!Jokes?Listener comments - 1:18:17Final thoughts - 1:23:01 ContactEmailSpeak Pipe Subscribe to LSG's "A Game of Thrones Podcast"iTunesStitcherRSS: http://gotonlsg.libsyn.com/rss(Cut and paste RSS address into podcasting app search function) Subscribe to LSG's "The Walking Dead Podcast"iTunesStitcherRSS: http://twdonlsg.libsyn.com/rss(Cut and paste RSS address into podcasting app search function) Subscribe to LSG's "The Science Fiction Film Podcast"iTunesStitcherRSS: http://sciencefictionfilmpodcast.libsyn.com/rss(Cut and paste RSS address into podcasting app search function) SupportPatreonWebsite

Spoilers Contained! Game of Thrones "Kill the Boy" Dany makes a difficult decision in Meereen. Jon recruits the help of an unexpected ally. Brienne searches for Sansa. Theon remains under Ramsay's control.-IMDB Starring: Peter Dinklage, Nikolaj Coster-Waldau, Lena Headey, Emilia Clarke, Kit Harington, Aidan Gillen, Charles Dance, Natalie Dormer, Liam Cunningham, Stephen Dillane, Carice van Houten, Alfie Allen, John Bradley, Jack Gleeson, Isaac Hempstead-Wright, Rory McCann, Sophie Turner, Maisie Williams, Gwendoline Christie, Jerome Flynn, Conleth Hill, Iwan Rheon, Pedro Pascal, and Iain Glen Jessica and Dean's Discussion Notes Mereen - 03:38Boo-hoo Grey Worm, boo-hooNo time for love!Cuddle buddiesHaving the leaders over for BBQCoasting with the substitute teacherClever use of CGIA good advisorNow that's a wedding proposalThe Wall - 14:43EncyclopediasPandering to the dummiesTradition be damned!Jon's diplomacy and leadershipOllie's Book of DeedsExposition and GillyDinner with the BaratheonsStannis can do no wrong - 28:25Stannis loves dogs!Take my ships, please!Brienne... ZZZzzzzzWinterfell - 33:29Get that kennel chick a sandwich!Plenty of meat on them bonesPornographic sex...? - 36:41Crochet, Croquet, and Cross-StitchingWho is Rickon?Guess who's coming to dinner? - 42:04Roose rescues SansaRoose reminds us why we hate himDueling poets - 48:41A Valyrian TaleA flyover and the goosefleshScary Stone Men!The Grayscale payoff!Stannis won't take Jorah's callsListener comments - 56:42 ContactEmailSpeak Pipe Subscribe to LSG's "A Game of Thrones Podcast"iTunesStitcherRSS: http://gotonlsg.libsyn.com/rss(Cut and paste RSS address into podcasting app search function) Subscribe to LSG's "The Walking Dead Podcast"iTunesStitcherRSS: http://twdonlsg.libsyn.com/rss(Cut and paste RSS address into podcasting app search function) Subscribe to LSG's "The Science Fiction Film Podcast"iTunesStitcherRSS: http://sciencefictionfilmpodcast.libsyn.com/rss(Cut and paste RSS address into podcasting app search function) SupportPatreonWebsite

Spoilers Contained! Game of Thrones "Sons of the Harpy" Tyrion and Jorah Mormont set sail. Cersei makes a move against the Tyrells. Jamie and Bronn sneak into Dorne. Ellaria and the Sand Snakes make their plans. Melisandre seduces Jon. The Harpies attack.-IMDB Starring: Peter Dinklage, Nikolaj Coster-Waldau, Lena Headey, Emilia Clarke, Kit Harington, Aidan Gillen, Charles Dance, Natalie Dormer, Liam Cunningham, Stephen Dillane, Carice van Houten, Alfie Allen, John Bradley, Jack Gleeson, Isaac Hempstead-Wright, Rory McCann, Sophie Turner, Maisie Williams, Gwendoline Christie, Jerome Flynn, Conleth Hill, Iwan Rheon, Pedro Pascal, and Iain Glen Jessica and Dean's Discussion Notes Benioff and his man-wifeAngry book fansJamie and Bronn - 05:11The mad... sort of QueenA hopeless and Dornish endeavorNo more secretsBattle in the dunes - 12:35The Sand SnakesEllaria's quest for revenge - 17:49A short-haired warPay that bank its money!Fierce temple sweepers"Monty" Mace TyrellA formidable lioness - 23:05Picking off her enemiesLoras TyrellThe Faith MilitantA bloody nose for the QueenTommen's parentage - 31:55Sweetie-pie KingWinterfell - 36:33Robert's RebellionThings look good for SansaThe Wall - 44:58Jon Snow's dubious heritageThe Lady of Ice and Fire - 48:50A flaming - super hot - weirdoThe hierarchy of rejectionDating Wiccan chicksBrienne Holmes & Podrick Watson - 53:57A father and his daughterShireen's story?Tyrion is back! - 1:00:05When will we see Varys next?Mereen - 1:05:22A singing knightEnough about the fighting pits!Selmy's honorListener comments - 1:15:32 ContactEmailSpeak Pipe Subscribe to LSG's "A Game of Thrones Podcast"iTunesStitcherRSS: http://gotonlsg.libsyn.com/rss(Cut and paste RSS address into podcasting app search function) Subscribe to LSG's "The Walking Dead Podcast"iTunesStitcherRSS: http://twdonlsg.libsyn.com/rss(Cut and paste RSS address into podcasting app search function) Subscribe to LSG's "The Science Fiction Film Podcast"iTunesStitcherRSS: http://sciencefictionfilmpodcast.libsyn.com/rss(Cut and paste RSS address into podcasting app search function) SupportPatreonWebsite

Spoilers Contained! Game of Thrones "High Sparrow" Tommen and Margaery wed. Arya has trouble adapting to her new life. Littlefinger reveals his marriage arrangements to Sansa. Jon gives his first orders as Lord Commander. Tyrion and Varys arrive in Volantis.-IMDB Starring: Peter Dinklage, Nikolaj Coster-Waldau, Lena Headey, Emilia Clarke, Kit Harington, Aidan Gillen, Charles Dance, Natalie Dormer, Liam Cunningham, Stephen Dillane, Carice van Houten, Alfie Allen, John Bradley, Jack Gleeson, Isaac Hempstead-Wright, Rory McCann, Sophie Turner, Maisie Williams, Gwendoline Christie, Jerome Flynn, Conleth Hill, Iwan Rheon, Pedro Pascal, and Iain Glen Jessica and Dean's Discussion Notes Apprentices must sweepAre the faceless men a sacred order?Arya's identity Creepy cultsJon's gift to AryaThe North - 13:42Emo SansaJessica still loves LittlefingerA man of actionSansa's home comingThe Boltons' plight - 19:55Theon's loyalty to the Starks?Fear and brainwashing - 27:27Brienne the muleThe Wall - 32:32Melisandre's glory holesJust one man's opinion"Jon, Noooo!" - 36:06LeadershipBy the swordA bloodless wedding - 41:00The manipulation of TommenLannister sexual shenanigansA queen's sharp tongueWhat is Cersei up to? - 46:43Where is my pillar and stones?Jesus and Rome... and stuffFrankenmountainTyrion and Varys - 53:50An abstinent dwarfWho is your Game of Thrones husband?Jorah returnsA lord's valueListener comments - 59:22Final thoughts ContactEmailSpeak Pipe Subscribe to LSG's "A Game of Thrones Podcast"iTunesStitcherRSS: http://gotonlsg.libsyn.com/rss(Cut and paste RSS address into podcasting app search function) Subscribe to LSG's "The Walking Dead Podcast"iTunesStitcherRSS: http://twdonlsg.libsyn.com/rss(Cut and paste RSS address into podcasting app search function) Subscribe to LSG's "The Science Fiction Film Podcast"iTunesStitcherRSS: http://sciencefictionfilmpodcast.libsyn.com/rss(Cut and paste RSS address into podcasting app search function) SupportPatreonWebsite

Spoilers Contained! Game of Thrones “The House of Black and White” Arya arrives in Braavos. Jamie takes on a secret mission. Ellaria Sand seeks revenge for Oberyn’s death. Stannis makes Jon a generous offer as the Night’s Watch elects a new Lord Commander. Daenerys is faced with a difficult decision.-IMDB Starring: Peter Dinklage, Nikolaj Coster-Waldau, Lena Headey, Emilia Clarke, Kit Harington, Aidan Gillen, Charles Dance, Natalie Dormer, Liam Cunningham, Stephen Dillane, Carice van Houten, Alfie Allen, John Bradley, Jack Gleeson, Isaac Hempstead-Wright, Rory McCann, Sophie Turner, Maisie Williams, Gwendoline Christie, Jerome Flynn, Conleth Hill, Iwan Rheon, Pedro Pascal, and Iain Glen Jessica and Dean’s Discussion Notes Braavos and the fearless AryaThe hustle and bustle of a new warless locationArya is denied at firstArya’s shrinking list…Qyburn the creepBringing back characters thought forgotten – 05:22Will Arya become a faceless man?Syrio Forel?Brienne and Podrick meet Littlefinger and Sansa – 12:10 Converging characters and converging storylinesThe characters are why we watchIs Brienne the last chivalrous character in Westeros? - 15:12Jessica takes us through the escalation of this confrontationLittlefinger’s Achilles HeelLittlefinger spots Lannister goldBrienne is too "Excalibur" – 19:30Penises and porridgeWhat’s Brienne’s next move?Cersei yells at Jamie some more - 24:50Cersei’s impossible expectations for JamieNegative cognitive filterSympathy for the Queen MotherCersei is running out of friendsEnter the sycophants – 31:05Uncle Kev ain’t hearing itKing Tommen, Sir Pounce, and pornBronn’s boredomBronn needs a nice womanThe Spider and the Imp – 39:36Tyrion’s boring and pointless life … for nowVarys’ long-con to ally himself with DaenerysOverall a lackluster check-in on Varys and TyrionDorne, Doran, and Ellaria – 44:20The law of trial by combatEllaria should learn from Oberyn’s deathAlexander SiddigTeam BronnCastle Black – 49:42Sam just surfing the medieval internetJon Stark – Lord of WinterfellThe North wants to fight for a Stark not StannisSilly morals and promisesDean considers Stannis’ second great offer this season – 56:23Pet crows and spidersMy kingdom for a cold, dark, wall…Janos Slynt and Meryn TrantSam roasts Janos SlyntA puddle of his own makingNed Stark has a very particular set of skills – 1:03:11Aemon votes Snow!Is Jon Snow untouchable?Jessica would be, “Shocked, shocked if Oberyn dies…”Mereen – 1:08:54Jessica can spell in PortugueseSlewed him…?Jody Foster’s President shooterWest Memphis Three?Bloody killer of HarpiesA fair trial for everyone except you… SIR!Daario the executioner?Targaryen loversA major decision for Daenerys – 1:18:56We hiss in your general direction!Drogon returns to help his distressed mammaListener comments – 01:23:11 Did Cersei set-up the snake incident to prompt Jamie into action?Characters that you care aboutFinal thoughts – 1:27:39 ContactEmailSpeak Pipe Subscribe to LSG’s “A Game of Thrones Podcast”iTunesStitcherRSS: http://gotonlsg.libsyn.com/rss(Cut and paste RSS address into podcasting app search function) Subscribe to LSG’s “The Walking Dead Podcast”iTunesStitcherRSS: http://twdonlsg.libsyn.com/rss(Cut and paste RSS address into podcasting app search function) Subscribe to LSG’s “The Science Fiction Film Podcast”iTunesStitcherRSS: http://sciencefictionfilmpodcast.libsyn.com/rss(Cut and paste RSS address into podcasting app search function) SupportPatreonWebsite

Spoilers Contained! Game of Thrones "The Wars to Come" Cersei and Jaime adjust to a world without Tywin. Tyrion and Varys arrive at Pentos. In Meereen, a new enemy emerges. Jon is caught between two kings.-IMDB Starring: Peter Dinklage, Nikolaj Coster-Waldau, Lena Headey, Emilia Clarke, Kit Harington, Aidan Gillen, Charles Dance, Natalie Dormer, Liam Cunningham, Stephen Dillane, Carice van Houten, Alfie Allen, John Bradley, Jack Gleeson, Isaac Hempstead-Wright, Rory McCann, Sophie Turner, Maisie Williams, Gwendoline Christie, Jerome Flynn, Conleth Hill, Iwan Rheon, Pedro Pascal, and Iain Glen Jessica and Dean's Discussion Notes We know nothing...Flashback opening made Dean nervousMean little CerseiThe prophecy of Maggy - 06:31Shrouds and crownsA red herring?Jaime and Cersei - 10:45How does one break up with their brother?Cersei's part in Tywin's deathThe Sept (and set) of Baelor - 14:26Lancel's returnThere goes the neighborhoodTywin's downfallLoras Tyrell - 21:05Stay classy HBONo pillar or stones for JessicaMargaery TyrellMereen - 24:10Sons of the HarpyA queen's burdenLeadership learning curvesA plea for the fighting pits - 32:55Respecting the culture of MereenDaario not pulling punchesMad dragonsPentos - 39:25Dr. Bashir I presume?Just another holodeck fantasy - 41:08Varys doing the dirty workDean geeks out - 45:17Dynamic VarysA titanic set-upLIttlefinger's secret messagesThe Wall - 53:00Salty Alliser, wimpy Sam, annoying GillyMelisandre the creepMen's rights!Gaming table sex has grown boring - 56:10The Charles Manson of WesterosStannis proclaims - 58:37Stannis/Snow dynamicKit Harington's strong startStannis' offerMance's decision - 1:03:59Wildings and their loyaltyHe who passes judgement - 1:09:58Listener comments - 1:12:03Final thoughtsScheduling and release date update ContactEmailSpeak Pipe Subscribe to LSG's "Game of Thrones Podcast"iTunesStitcherRSS: http://gotonlsg.libsyn.com/rss(Cut and paste RSS address into podcasting app search function) Subscribe to LSG's "The Walking Dead Podcast"iTunesStitcherRSS: http://twdonlsg.libsyn.com/rss(Cut and paste RSS address into podcasting app search function) Subscribe to LSG's "The Science Fiction Film Podcast"iTunesStitcherRSS: http://sciencefictionfilmpodcast.libsyn.com/rss(Cut and paste RSS address into podcasting app search function) SupportPatreonWebsite

Spoilers Contained! Game of Thrones - Season Four Recap Starring: Peter Dinklage, Nikolaj Coster-Waldau, Lena Headey, Emilia Clarke, Kit Harington, Aidan Gillen, Charles Dance, Natalie Dormer, Liam Cunningham, Stephen Dillane, Carice van Houten, Alfie Allen, John Bradley, Jack Gleeson, Isaac Hempstead-Wright, Rory McCann, Sophie Turner, Maisie Williams, Gwendoline Christie, Jerome Flynn, Conleth Hill, Iwan Rheon, Pedro Pascal, and Iain Glen Jessica and Dean's Discussion Notes Daenerys' taleLeadership v. conqueringNaughty dragonsPillar and the stones?Accidental crucifixionsOld slave out of work - 09:27Jorah MormontBanging on gravesThe Eyrie - 17:11Jessica's love of BaelishLannister - Tyrell tug o' warWhere is Littlefinger going - 24:14The Boltons and the North - 27:50Moat CailinCheering for Ramsay?A broken GreyjoyJessica's change of heart with Stannis - 33:53Will Stannis smash the Boltons?You know nothing Jon Snow - 39:35Karl Tanner v. Jon SnowRelax with the rape - 42:15The battle at the wallSam Tarly's romanceMance Rayder's fateBran's north of the wall shenanigans - 49:13Jojen's deathWeening you into fantasyVagina smoke monsterRemote control HodorPeter Pan with fireballsTurn your cart aroundThe Hound and Arya - 56:49The countryside dangers under Joffrey's rulePracticing ways to die?Safety? Where's that? - 1:03:36Tough to cheer against BrienneOberyn Martell - 1:08:24Jessica was positive Oberyn would be a big character going forwardTyrion's championThe Mountain that RidesJoffrey's death - 1:16:11Dinklage's acting chopsTyrion's speech - 1:20:23Bronn doesn't take the fightCersei stands up to TywinJaime Lannister's loyalty to Tyrion - 1:26:40Tyrion's pit-stop on his road to escapeShae's deathTywin's weak liesTyrion's deep hatred of Tywin at the endVarys' decision to join Tyrion on the ship ContactEmailSpeak Pipe Subscribe to LSG's "Game of Thrones Podcast"iTunesRSS: http://gotonlsg.libsyn.com/rss(Cut and paste RSS address into podcasting app search function) Subscribe to LSG's "The Walking Dead Podcast"iTunesStitcherRSS: http://twdonlsg.libsyn.com/rss(Cut and paste RSS address into podcasting app search function) Subscribe to LSG's "The Science Fiction Film Podcast"iTunesStitcherRSS: http://sciencefictionfilmpodcast.libsyn.com/rss(Cut and paste RSS address into podcasting app search function) SupportPatreonWebsite

On the show today Benjamin talks with GAME OF THRONES star Jerome Flynn. First Jerome talks about his charity campaign Roaring For Freedom (https://www.indiegogo.com/projects/roaring-for-freedom-jerome-flynn-implores-us-to-stand-up-and-protect-our-lions). Then Jerome gives us some EXCLUSIVE updates on GAME OF THRONES SERIES 5 and RIPPER STREET SERIES 3! After the interview Benjamin reviews recent film releases Frank, The Two Faces of January, NT LIVE: King Lear and Transformers Age of Extinction (thanks to Palace Nova Cinemas). Then to finish of Benjamin reviews some Roadshow DVD releases! Follow the show: www.facebook.com/preachrspodcast www.twitter.com/BenjaminMM_ Supporters: Palace Nova Cinemas Roadshow Entertainment Mad Zombie Collectables

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