The Whole Nine Yards Episode 276     

With Roy Stannard

On Mid Sussex Radio 103.8FM

Sunday 10 May 2026  3-5pm

www.midsussexradio.co.uk/listen

All Things Must Pass

The passing of time could be a worrying process – but it’s not because ageing has never worried all those Peter Pans in the Pop business. They sneer at the aging process – think ‘My Generation’ by The Who and they treat it as a joke – as in ‘When I’m 64’ by The Beatles written by McCartney when he was 15. Sometimes the tone becomes more philosophical as with that other Beatle writer, George Harrison and ‘All Things Must Pass’. And then there is ‘Puff the Magic Dragon’ by Peter, Paul and Mary – a song about the loss of childhood innocence or was it a subversive  drugs anthem? This week the clock may be ticking but these songs are pictures in attic.

Hour One

Arthur ‘Dooley’ Wilson – As Time Goes By (As Time Goes By 1931)

Smashing Pumpkins – 1979  (Mellon Collie And The Infinite Sadness 1995)

Silversun Pickups – Growing Old is Getting Old (Swoon 2009)

Pulp – Help The Aged (This Is Hardcore 1997)

Example – The Evolution Of Man (The Evolution Of Man 2012)

Flogging Molly – Float (Float 2008)

The Kinks – Do You Remember Walter? (The Kinks Are The Village Green Preservation Society 1968)

George Harrison – All Things Must Pass (All Things Must Pass 1970)

The Verve – Appalachian Springs (Forth 2008)

Keane – Bedshaped (Hopes and Fears 2004)

Alphaville – Forever Young (Forever Young 1984)

Paul Weller  – Time Passes (Stanley Road 1994)

Hour Two

The Courteeners – Not Nineteen Forever (St Jude 2008)

Bob Seger – Against The Wind (Against The Wind 1980)

Rod Stewart – You Wear it Well (Never a Dull Moment 1972)

Bruce Springsteen – I’ll See You in My Dreams (Letter to You 2020)

Cat Stevens – Oh Very Young (Buddha and the Chocolate Box 1974)

Bob Dylan – Forever Young (Slow version)

Peter Paul & Mary – Puff the Magic Dragon  (Moving 1963)

The Killers – When You Were Young (Sam’s Town 2006)

You Me at Six – When We Were Younger (Sinners Never Sleep 2011)

Jackson Browne – These Days (For Everyman 1973)

The Beatles – The Long and Winding Road (Let It Be 1970)