Andrew Hickey
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2,253 appearances
4 recordings
1 series
first heard Jul 2026
last heard 3 Sep
Andrew Hickey’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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A History of Rock Music and Five Hundred Songs by Andrew Hickey.
Psalm one hundred and eighty six.
Found that.
by Captain Beefheart and his magic band.
Before we begin, a quick note.
This episode contains discussion of mental illness, drug abuse, and cult like controlling behaviors.
There's also a short clip of a song which those who have urinary incontinence might find upsetting.
Pop music is and always has been, music for the young, and in particular, a lot of pop music has always been aimed at very small children.
And because rock and roll and the T V both became popular phenomena at the same time, and the two grew up together, that means that since very early on there have been attempts to combine rock and roll with children's TV.
These attempts got supercharged after the Beatles became the biggest thing, not just in popular music, but in entertainment.
Every kid loved the Beatles and their music.
And so very quickly the Beatles got their own Saturday morning kids cartoon on American TV.
With impersonators voicing the poor lads from well, wherever they're from, it's not Liverpool.
That cartoon was popular enough and ran for long enough, that by the end of it the cartoon group were having rather racist adventures in a cartoon version of the Mayan civilization to the tune of Tomorrow Never Knows.
And then having a follow the bouncing bull sing along to She said she said, encouraging the little kitties watching at home to sing She said I know what it's like to be dead, I know what it is to be sad, and she's making me feel like I've never been born.
One has to wonder what the people making the cartoon thought they were doing by that point.
Of course, part of the problem there was that the Beatles didn't owe their career to children's TV.
They were independent musicians who didn't even watch the cartoons featuring the caricatures of themselves.
Though apparently after John Lennon moved to the US in the seventies, he went through a phase of watching the show in reruns, and their greatest concern when coming up with songs wasn't whether they would be suitable for Saturday morning shows.
Of course, the solution to this problem was to create a band specifically for children's T V.
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