PURE with Howard Thompson

Chicken v Monkey Part 2

Roy Clark: Chicken Wire 
Richard Cheese: Brass Monkey 
Jimmie Ballard: Chicken Plucker 
The Apes: Tarzan's Monkey 
Big Joe Turner: The Chicken And The Hawk
Saxie Russel: El Monkey 
James Brown: The Chicken 
Jools Holland & his R&B Orchestra: Monkey Man 
Don & Juan: Chicken Necks 
Firewater: The Monkey Song 
Ron Levy's Wild Kingdom: Chicken Fried Snake
Big Three Trio: Ain't Gonna Be Your Monkey Man 
Bill Williams: Chicken You Can't Roost Too High For Me
Cash Box Kings: I Ain't Gonna Be No Monkey Man 
Doug Sahm: The Chicken and the Bop
David Johansen: Space Monkey
Rosco Gordon: The Chicken (Dance With You)
The James Hunter Six: Let The Monkey Ride
The James Hunter Six: Chicken Switch
Kenny Roby: Me And The Monkey
Dave Rich: Chicken House
Justin Hinds & Dominoes: The Higher The Monkey Climbs 
Bill Kirchen & Too Much Fun: Talkin' About Chicken
The Strypes: Monkey
Hasil Adkins: Chicken Walk 
Patti Smith: Space Monkey 
Scatterbrain: Tastes Just Like Chicken
Fats Domino: Everybody's Got Something to Hide Except Me & My Monkey 
Wylie & The Wild West: Chicken Feed 
Lil' Cliff & The Cliffhangers: Spank That Monkey
Pink Anderson: Chicken 
Dr. John: The Monkey 
Tom Paines: Chicken is Nice 
Band Of Joy: Monkey 
Wild Bill Davis: Chicken Gumbo
Ronnie Dawson: Monkey's Uncle
Hand Job Academy: Pu$$y Chicken 
Elvis Costello & the Imposters: Monkey To Man
Ramona King: Super Chicken 
Kenny Burrell w/Brother Jack McDuff Quintet: Grease Monkey 
John Cooper Clarke: Evidently Chickentown 
Honey Cone: One Monkey Don't Stop The Show
Willie Tee & Cypress: Chicken On The Run 
Elvis Presley: Too Much Monkey Business
Jo-Jo & The Fugitives: Chips - Chicken - Banana Split
Guitar Crusher: The Monkey 
Jack Blanchard & Misty Morgan: The Legendary Chicken Fairy
The Steampacket: Back At the Chicken Shack 

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