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Spread Your Wings

Season 6, Ep. 4

We've gone forward to the past! Yes, we've abandoned synths and drum machines, said farewell to high-gloss production and made our way back to Frank's house to talk about one of Deacy's very best tunes. We'll discover what hairy big toes have to do with anything, what Randy has been spending his time doing instead of working on proper music, and there's more whining and moaning about Sportsball from the Cardinal, whose eventual funeral we cordially invite you all to attend. In and amongst all this, we talk guitar tone, economy of arrangement, and C-sections (not that kind).


We also talk a little bit about the Fab Four's recently released final single, if you're a Beatles fan at all, and if you're not, take yourself outside and give yourself a jolly good talking to!


If Mr. Randy were to title this episode, he’d probably call it "Who does Sammy think he is?" or possibly "Does the Emerald Bar server deep-fried pickles?"


Today's episode covers the penultimate track from side one of 1977's "News Of The World", "Spread Your Wings".


Thanks to everyone who tuned in to the last episode and left us some comments on Twitter and Facebook! We'll always try to answer any questions you have and seriously appreciate any corrections you make to anything we get wrong. And thanks so much for all your support as usual. We're loving diving into the Queen fandom a little more deeply as much as we're enjoying recording the podcasts!


Huge thanks to Corey Morrissette and Mark Camire for letting us copy and paste the format from their gold-standard podcast; And the Podcast Will Rock. You can find them at @PodcastWillRock on Twitter. Also, make sure you go check out our beautiful brothers and sisters over on the Deep Dive Podcast Network!


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Also, check out Kev's other podcasts

The Tom Petty Project: https://tompettyproject.com

The Ultimate Catalogue Clash: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/ultimate-catalogue-clash


And if you want to check out Randy's music, you can find it here:

https://randywoodsband.com

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    01:11:15||Season 16, Ep. 10
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