Ricky & Tony: Pop Detectives

Ricky & Tony: Pop Detectives

Kaiser Chiefs' frontman Ricky Wilson has taken up a new role, as broadcasting legend Tony Blackburn's apprentice, in Ricky & Tony's Pop Detective agency. Our intrepid investigating duo will be debunking pop myths and solving musical mysteries from their office just above a takeaway on the Holloway Road. To get in touch with a case you need cracking: Email (mailto:podcast@rickyandtony.com) Twitter (https://twitter.com/rickyandtonypod) A Globe Productions podcast

Episodes

S2 Ep8: Case 016: The Worst of Pop Detectives 2

July 27, 2020 • 50 mins
Ricky and Tony take their Pop Detectivism very seriously, however during those long days and nights at the office, conversation can drift…a lot! We were going to call this the Best Of Pop Detectives but we thought that was pushing it, especially when no pop mysteries were solved in the making of this episode…so that must make it the Worst Of Pop Detectives. 

Here’s what you didn’t hear in previous e...
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S2 Ep7: Case 015: David Bowie and the Yeeziest Case Yet

July 20, 2020 • 47 mins
Bowie was a master of reinvention and was streets ahead of the curve...but did he really predict the future too? In the final case of the series of Ricky & Tony, the Pop Detectives are investigating a theory which in some ways seems feasible but in other ways just plain bizarre!

Some of the comments that David Bowie made during in a Newnight interview in 1999 about how we’d use the internet in y...
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S2 Ep6: Case 014: Pills, Thrills & Laminates (Shaun Ryder Special)

July 13, 2020 • 46 mins
WARNING: This episode contains strong language and references to drug taking.

It’s a Happy Mondays Special as Ricky & Tony are joined by the one and only Shaun Ryder to help get to the bottom of this legendary pop myth.

At the height of ‘the second summer of love’ in 1990, the Happy Mondays headlined Glastonbury festival, but not content with the number of passes they...
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S2 Ep5: Case 013: Do You Believe in…Cher’s Wig Room?

July 7, 2020 • 33 mins
Ricky and Tony are back on the case of another superstar-based pop myth. One of their stool pigeons has tipped them to a demand by the Goddess of Pop, Cher, for a special room wherever she goes for the sole use of her wigs. 

Rumour has it that when on tour the room is furnished with just a table and three chairs, along with other demands of white and milk chocolate fountains, a slush machine and mou...
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S2 Ep4: Case 012: The Party King Of Queen

June 30, 2020 • 42 mins
In 1987 Freddie Mercury turned 41 and decided to throw the mother of all parties at Pikes beach club in Ibiza. With myths a-plenty for this party, it even features in the Bohemian Rhapsody film, it’s hard to know what’s legend and what’s the truth! 

350 bottles of champagne, a six-foot cake, three days just to inflate all the balloons and also a firework display that could be seen from Majorca, almo...
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S2 Ep3: Case 011: Fools Gold

June 22, 2020 • 37 mins
Ricky’s been lucky enough to receive some gold and platinum awards in his time. However, he once noticed that the grooves and tracks on one of his Kaiser Chiefs gold records didn’t match the ones from the actual vinyl. What’s going on? Are all Gold/Platinum records actually all the same record? If so, what record is it? If not then who on earth’s record does Ricky have?

To try and crack this case Ri...
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S2 Ep2: Case 010: The Wild(er) Case of Ricky’s Follower

June 15, 2020 • 47 mins
Something’s been puzzling Ricky for a few years and he wants the help of Tony and their experts to get to the bottom of it.

On the day that actor Gene Wilder died in 2016, Ricky was moved to post a tribute on Twitter, only to find out that Gene was following him! However, what’s even more strange is that the account only follows 13 people, Ricky being one of them, along with a few Hollywood stars. W...
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S2 Ep1: Case 009: The President & The Pop Pawn

June 8, 2020 • 40 mins
It’s a brand new series and Ricky and Tony have got everything they need, including the all important rubber ‘case-solved’ stamp, to safely crack an in-tray full of new cases from home.

This week’s tip-off is that Barack Obama allegedly hired Miley Cyrus as a political distraction tool to avert the public’s gaze away from new legislation that some say wasn’t going to go down well with the American p...
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Pop Detectives: Back In Business

June 2, 2020 • 2 mins
Pop Detectives is back in business! Recorded live from lockdown, from their home detective offices, Kaiser Chiefs’ frontman Ricky Wilson and radio royalty Tony Blackburn continue to debunk pop myths and solve musical mysteries. Episode 1 coming soon...
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S1 Ep8: Case 008: The Worst of Pop Detectives

March 16, 2020 • 35 mins
On the way to solving all the mysteries in this series and as new colleagues, Ricky and Tony had a lot of acquainting to be done, and during those long late nights at the office, it’s easy for conversation to drift to other matters. 

Here’s what you didn’t hear in previous episodes. No pop mysteries were solved in the making of this episode.

If you have a pop mystery you’...
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S1 Ep7: Case 007: Toilet Fumer

March 9, 2020 • 34 mins
Did Billy Bragg and the Manic Street Preachers ever make up and get over their toilet differences after the Welsh rockers brought their own toilet to Glastonbury once.
 
It was at Glastonbury 1999 when the Manics came up with their own take on BYOB (Bring Your Own Bog), Billy Bragg accused them of going against everything the festival stood for and forgetting their socialist values. He took particular iss...
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S1 Ep6: Case 006: L8ter Sk8ter - The Complicated Clone

March 3, 2020 • 39 mins
Did Avril Lavigne die and get replaced by a clone who’s been fooling fans for the last 17 years?        

The theory claims that Avril, struggling with fame having been thrust into the limelight at only 18, began using a body double named Melissa Vandella hired for her striking resemblance to Avril. At some point, the real Avril is said to have died, so the record company replaced her with Melissa fu...
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S1 Ep5: Case 005: The Silicon Valley Witch Trials

February 25, 2020 • 40 mins
The latest case for Ricky and Tony involves the crazy world of SIlicon Valley and whether rapper Azaelia Banks was asked by Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey to make an amulet to ward off evil spirits, specifically, ISIS.                 

The story goes that in 2016, the Twitter boss sent some of his beard shavings to Banks so that she could make him an amulet that would protect him from ISIS in return for he...
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S1 Ep4: Case 004: The Spiked Bandana

February 17, 2020 • 36 mins
Did Jimi Hendrix really conceal LSD beneath his famous bandana so that it seeped into his skin to get him high when on stage? It’s a new case for Ricky and Tony as they attempt to open their third eyes on the evidence.

As well as being part of his signature look, did the legendary Jimi Hendrix have another use for his bandana? Ricky and Tony receive a tip off that he used to use the headgear to conceal LSD when he pla...
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S1 Ep3: Case 003: Purple Rage

February 10, 2020 • 37 mins
Did the famous rivalry between Prince and Michael Jackson get so heated in the early 80s that it could have changed music forever? It’s a new case for Ricky and Tony and naturally they’re on a mission to solve it!
 
The word on the street is that at a James Brown show in 1983, Prince felt he’d be made to look a fool on stage by MJ and got so mad that he asked his limo driver to try and run him and La Toya...
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S1 Ep2: Case 002: The Popstar's Posterior

February 3, 2020 • 40 mins
It’s rumoured the world-round that Jennifer Lopez insured her backside, but is there truth in it? Can Ricky & Tony: Pop Detectives, get to the bottom of this one?

The evidence first surfaced in the tabloids (The Sun and the New York Post) in 1999 when they reported that Jennifer Lopez took out an insurance policy on her famous backside for up to $1 billion! 

Luckily, ...
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S1 Ep1: Case 001: The Superstar & The Serial Killer

January 27, 2020 • 36 mins
It’s Ricky’s first day on the job as a gumshoe apprentice and there’s a lot of evidence to go through. The story goes that one late night in Manhattan, Harry was picked up by a creepy but handsome man driving a VW Beetle but found she couldn’t get out. She luckily managed to make a run for it but years later was convinced the driver was none other than the infamous serial killer Ted Bundy. 
 
Ricky & ...
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Welcome to Pop Detectives

January 15, 2020 • 1 min
Coming Soon: Kaiser Chiefs frontman Ricky Wilson has taken up a new role as broadcasting legend Tony Blackburn's apprentice in Ricky & Tony's Pop Detective agency. The pair will be debunking pop myths and solving musical mysteries from their office just above a takeaway on the Holloway Road.
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