Part 1 of our 1969 music podcast with BMX Bandit & all round good guy Duglas T Stewart.  The full podcast including all songs chosen by Duglas can be heard on Spotify ( search Over Our Garden Wall). However, if you cant access Spotify - this is a copy of all the chat from the podcast. You can of course listen to Duglas's songs on Apple Music too, just not on this Podcast ! Apologies for this, and hopefully one day we can publish in full on Apple as we do on Spotify.When we started out doing these ' greatest years' podcasts, we thought that getting 12 guests to talk about their favourite year for popular music would be difficult but worth aiming for. Our last podcast with George Paterson got us to that number, and we have had more listens than we could ever have dreamed of! However, sticking to the old adage that the harder your try the luckier you get.....we now have a Baker's Dozens of guests ;-)Duglas T Stewart, founding member of BMX Bandits, dreamer and all round national treasure,  is our 13 guest, and spent the best part of 3 hours in our company one Zoom night a couple of months ago. We talked about anything and everything - and from that we have managed to put together a three part podcast covering a couple of hours worth of the chat, and more importantly the tunes. In part one, we get tunes from the likes of The Beach Boys, Harpers Bizarre & Rod McKeun. Connected to these Duglas gives some very personal reflections about why 1969 is so important to him, and throws in a couple of killer anecdotes ( the Brian Wilson/Don Henley one is a belter). We also managed to connect Grange Hill and Robinson Crusoe to the year too, and the kazoo made a number of guest appearances.Enjoy part 1 - there is plenty more to come. Stay safe. BD & McD