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Ricky & Tony: Pop Detectives

Ricky & Tony: Pop Detectives

Written by: Ricky Wilson & Tony Blackburn
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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.

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

    S2 Ep8: Case 016: The Worst of Pop Detectives 2
    Jul 28 2020
    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 episodes, expect topics such as...world record for time spent up a tree, church bells, cheese phobias, Coronation Street and socks.
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    Thanks to Wooga - Download June's Journey for free from the App Store or Google Play here
    If you have a pop mystery you’d like solving get in touch at rickyandtony.com or email podcast@rickyandtony.com
    Tweet and follow the podcast @rickyandtonypod. See the office on Instagram
    From Globe Productions  Producer: Gareth Evans at EighteenSixty  Creative Producer: Will Nichols
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    51 mins
  • S2 Ep7: Case 015: David Bowie and the Yeeziest Case Yet

    S2 Ep7: Case 015: David Bowie and the Yeeziest Case Yet
    Jul 21 2020
    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 years to come are spookily accurate, that music streaming would be normal and the internet would give us “windows into our idols' lives” (Twitter, Instagram, TikTok anyone?). Coupled with more unusual theory that the great man tried to tell us about the birth of Kanye West five years before his birth, some people seem to believe that Bowie was some kind of modern day Nostradamus, could this be true?
    Ricky and Tony yet again have experts on hand, David Robson, a science writer who’s an expert on people who can accurately predict world events, and for a window into Kanye West’s world, Chris Lambert, host of Watching The Throne, the Kanye West Podcast.
    Watch the Newsnight interview here and more about the Kanye theory here.
    Thanks to Wooga - Download June's Journey for free from the App Store or Google Play here
    If you have a pop mystery you’d like solving get in touch at rickyandtony.com or email podcast@rickyandtony.com
    Tweet and follow the podcast @rickyandtonypod. See the office on Instagram
    From Globe Productions  Producer: Gareth Evans at EighteenSixty  Creative Producer: Will Nichols
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    47 mins
  • S2 Ep6: Case 014: Pills, Thrills & Laminates (Shaun Ryder Special)

    S2 Ep6: Case 014: Pills, Thrills & Laminates (Shaun Ryder Special)
    Jul 14 2020
    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 were given, the 24 hour party people decided to knock up a few of their own by taking their own laminator with them. The chaos they brought to the festival that year is said to have caused Michael Eavis to be mad at the band ever since, and even may have been the reason Glastonbury took a year off in 1991!
    To get to the bottom of this one, Ricky & Tony are going straight to the source. Nathan McGough managed of the band throughout their heyday and the legendary Shaun Ryder shares what he remembers (which is more than you’d think).
    As the Pop Detectives discover, there’s a lot more to this story than a few fake passes!
    If you have a pop mystery you’d like solving get in touch at rickyandtony.com or email podcast@rickyandtony.com
    Tweet and follow the podcast @rickyandtonypod. See the office on Instagram
    From Globe Productions  Producer: Gareth Evans at EighteenSixty  Creative Producer: Will Nichols
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    47 mins
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