Whatever happened to The La’s, the Liverpool band behind “There She Goes”? Author Goran Obradović joins me to tell the story of The La’s 1990 debut album, why frontman Lee Mavers was unhappy with the finished record, and why the band never released a second one.

Goran, author of The La’s Time. The Making of a Cla’ssic (Milestones), takes us inside the sessions with Mike Hedges and Steve Lillywhite, the rare demos known as the Kitchen Tape, and the low-fi recording of “Over” that Mavers actually liked. We also hear how bassist John Power went on to form Cast, why Johnny Marr got a call about recording with Mavers, and what Mavers told Oasis’s Noel Gallagher when he asked when the second album was coming out.

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