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In this podcast episode, we’ll walk through where they came from, what shaped them, how they crashed into the United States—and then spend some real time inside Tommy: not just as an album, but as a story that refused to stay put, leaping from vinyl to concert halls, movie screens, and the Broadway stage.

Imagine that it is Post war England and you are in West London
Bomb sites are turning into parking lots and playgrounds. Teenagers caught between their parents’ memories of wartime suffering and a new world of consumer goods, television sets, and American rock records.

Roger Daltrey grows up in a working-class family, handy with his fists and tools, assembling his own future piece by piece.

Pete Townshend, the intense, sharp-nosed kid, is surrounded by music early—his parents are professional musicians—so the idea of a musical life is precarious, but not absurd.

John Entwistle is the quiet one, a brass-band kid who picks up the bass and makes it sing.

Daltrey starts a band called The Detours. He pulls in Entwistle. Entwistle brings Townshend. They grind through pubs, youth clubs, and dance halls. Then, after a name change detour as the High Numbers, shaped by managers Kit Lambert and Chris Stamp, they emerge with the name that finally fits the impact:

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In this series, we’ve been spending time with artists who didn’t just make hits—they changed the language of modern music.

Today, we turn to a group that took blues, folk, volume, and mystery… and built a sound so iconic that entire genres still live in its echo.

Led Zeppelin.

Not just “loud.” Not just “wild.” Four musicians who fused session-honed precision, deep musical curiosity, and a taste for the epic into something that still feels massive generations later.

Tonight, we’ll look at where they came from, how they rose so quickly, why their time together burned so intensely, and how their shadow still stretches over rock and beyond.

Led Zeppelin doesn’t begin with rune symbols and stadiums.

It starts with working British musicians paying their dues.

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Today we meet an artist who doesn’t blow the doors off with volume or choreography, but with something quieter—and in many ways, just as radical.

A woman alone with a guitar in an open tuning.
A voice that can sound like a bell, a blade, or a diary you were never meant to read.
A songwriter who refuses to keep her feelings, or her harmonies, inside the lines.
But inwardly a mother with empty arms carrying shame that didn't belong to her and grief she poured into songs that people around her could feel even if they didn't know why both sides now Chelsea morning
Joni Mitchell.

In this episode, I want to explore:

Her background: prairie girl, painter, survivor.

Her influences: folk clubs, jazz giants, poets, painters, and her own wounds.

Her effect on music: especially the singer-songwriter era and beyond.

Her life’s arc: including the hidden child, the fame she never really trusted, the experiments that confused critics, the silence, the aneurysm, and the astonishing later-life return.

Because if Hendrix reimagined what a guitar could do, Joni Mitchell reimagined what a song could say.

Small-town skies, big inner world

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