"1968" w/special guest, Kevin Teare

"1968" w/special guest, Kevin Teare (broadcast 4/6/18)

The Nazz: Open My Eyes 
R. Dean Taylor: Gotta See Jane
The Beatles: While My Guitar Gently Weeps 
Fleetwood Mac: Need Your Love So Bad
The Zombies: This Will Be Our Year 
Bonzo Dog Band: We Are Normal 
Jimi Hendrix Experience: Have You Ever Been (to Electric Ladyland)
Canned Heat: An Owl Song 
Paul Jones: And The Sun Will Shine
Diana Ross & The Supremes: Love Child
John Mayall: Bare Wires Suite 
The Turtles: Elenore 
The Rolling Stones: Parachute Woman 
Dr. John the Night Tripper: Gris-Gris Gumbo Ya Ya 
The Doors: Not To Touch the Earth
Jackie Lomax: Sour Milk Sea 
Buffalo Springfield: The Hour of Not Quite Rain
Timebox: Beggin' 
The Band: Tears Of Rage
Marvin Gaye & Tammi Terrell: You're All I Need to Get By 
The Kinks: Animal Farm 
The Mothers of Invention: Mom & Dad 
Donovan: Hurdy Gurdy Man
Brian Auger, Julie Driscoll & the Trinity: The Road to Cairo
James Brown & the Famous Flames: Licking Stick
The Small Faces: Afterglow of Your Love
Simon & Garfunkel: America
Harvey Mandel: Christo Redentor 
Desmond Dekker & The Aces: (Poor Mi) Israelites 
The Flirtations: Nothing But A Heartache
Procol Harum: Shine On Brightly
Barry Ryan: Eloise
Cream: As You Said 
The Love Affair: Everlasting Love 
Blood, Sweat & Tears: So Much Love/Underture 
The Velvet Underground: White Light/White Heat 
Mike Bloomfield, Al Kooper & Steve Stills: It Takes a Lot to Laugh, It Takes a Train to Cry
Nico: Frozen Warnings
Pentangle: Market Song
The Easybeats: Good Times
Blue Cheer: Summertime Blues

What is PURE with Howard Thompson?

What is PURE with Howard Thompson?

Apart from the occasional overnighter, fill-in or fundraiser, howard now creates shows for our Podcasts page. You’ll find over 140 archived PUREs there, and new shows will be added - check the PURE and “Strictly” pages - at least once a month.

howard loves all kinds of music and has collected records ever since his uncle gave him Rock Around The Clock as a 6th birthday present.

Disc Jockeys like Brian Matthew (BBC Light Program), Emperor Rosko (Radio Caroline), John Peel (Radio London/BBC Radio 1), Hugh Nolan (Radio Geronimo), Charlie Gillett (BBC Radio London) and Andy Dunkley (the Marquee/Lyceum) made howard’s life worth living and he now just wants to return the favor.

howard worked in the music biz so he could get free records and meet astonishing people.

howard made records with Adam & the Ants, Alan Vega, Angel Corpus Christi, Aswad, Barb Jungr, Billy Bragg, Danny Gatton, Eddie & the Hot Rods, the Georgia Satellites, Hamell On Trial, Herb Alpert, Ian Hunter, John Campbell, Judy Tenuta, ManBreak, Motörhead, Peter C Johnson, the Prissteens, the Psychedelic Furs, Robyn Hitchcock & the Venus 3, Roky Erickson & the Aliens, Rubén Blades, Sally Oldfield, Sara Hickman, Scatterbrain, the Screaming Blue Messiahs, the Slits, The Star Spangles, The Sugarcubes, Susan Fassbender, Sir Tim Smit, Tulipomania, Victor DeLorenzo, Yellowman and 10,000 Maniacs to name a few. He was the first to release records by MX-80 Sound, the Real Kids and Suicide in Europe, and th’ faith healers, the Gipsy Kings, Happy Mondays, Paul Young and Wham! in the USA

howard joined WPKN in May 2010 and thanks Steve di Costanzo and Peter Bochan for letting him in. Terry Hopper too, for giving up an hour of The Quest to see if it could work.

howard thinks Bob Dylan should be President, and ‘Poison’ Ivy Rorschach should be Vice-President