Encores

Starting next week, we revisit four of Malcolm’s favorite episodes from the Revisionist History archives, all about music.

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Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:15):
Pushkin, You've tret me a live foo.

Speaker 2 (00:24):
Over the years that I've been doing Revisionist History, I've
done a number of episodes about music, and there's some
of my favorites, And in going back and listening to
those episodes, I realize they're all about versions of the
same thing. Well, actually, that's way too vague about the
way that specific songs burrowed into my consciousness ten, twenty thirty,

(00:47):
even forty years ago and have stayed there ever since,
which is odd because I'm not musical. I don't play
an instrument. I don't even know what a chord is.
But there is almost nothing that brings me more joy
than sitting down.

Speaker 1 (00:59):
With a musician.

Speaker 2 (01:00):
So I thought we'd reprise four of my favorite music
episodes from the archives of Revisionist History. A trip to
nash Phil to talk about sad songs, another trip to
Nashville to talk about Elvis.

Speaker 1 (01:14):
Of course, I wonder if.

Speaker 2 (01:18):
Tonight a third is based around a magical afternoon I
spent with Randy Newman prevail on you.

Speaker 3 (01:24):
Did to steal a little bit of Marie Sure So
I love that song so much. Thank you.

Speaker 2 (01:31):
And the last of them took me to the met
to a pub in North London to the story of
Leonard Cohen's masterpiece Hallelujah.

Speaker 1 (01:38):
No, it's vera brokale.

Speaker 2 (01:42):
Come join us for a walk down revisionist history Memory Lane,
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