From the Radio 1 Road Show caravan at the Pump Room Gardens, Leamington Spa including at 12.30 pm Newsbeat with John Walmsley

including at 5.30 Newsbeat

Nick Lowe, voted the person who contributed most to British rock music in 1978 by the Radio 1 DJs at the recent British Rock and Pop Awards presentation, joins Kid Jensen to review the week's new records. Not only a solo artist - 'I Love the Sound of Breaking Glass' was his recent British hit - Nick Lowe is much in demand as a record producer. He has been responsible for numerous successful albums and singles from Graham Parker and the Rumour, Wreckless Eric, Dr Feelgood, all the Elvis Costello albums and most recently, the Pretenders.

with Peter Mayne

Introduced by Tommy Vance
Including archive recordings of Status Quo.
Francis Rossi met Alan Lancaster at school in Catford. While in their early teens, they formed a band and soon drafted John Coghlan , a drummer with another local group. It was at a Butlin's holiday camp that they met Rick Parfitt : in 1966. named the Spectres, they turned professional. As STATUS Quo they broke through in 1968 with ' Pictures of Matchstick Men '.
Producer TONY WILSON