...and at number seven, those Sun City Boys, Queen. (during 'Top of the Pops' chart rundown - referring to Queen's performance at the Sun City resort in South Africa, contrary to the boycott of the then-apartheid state)

People sometimes ask me what I do this show for. I don't do it for the credibility or the cool, I don't do it for the major record labels, I don't do it for th…

I'll play you another track from that LP before the end of the programme, cause I rather like it, I must admit. It's also the kind of record which gets people …

People like Mike Read and DLT would often complain that they couldn't go anywhere without being recognized, but of course would go everywhere in a tartan suit …

There can be no music without ideology. The old composers, whether they knew it or not, were upholding a political theory. Most of them, of course, were bolste…

'They say they blame it on a song when someone kills a cop, what music did they listen to when they bombed Iraq?'

Faust, the Ninth Symphony, and the will of Adolf Hitler are eternal youth and know neither time nor transience.