Dickie Goodman has been played on NTS shows including Lupini , with Frankenstein Of '59 first played on 27 October 2024.

The ability to easily take a song, sample a bit of it, and then cut-and-paste it -- just as you do with words and sentences in a word processor -- has given birth to a fad called "mashups."

More than 45 years ago, Dickie Goodman had a similar idea. He would take bits of songs -- often songs that were beginning to climb the charts -- and with a grease pencil and a razor blade, cut them up and give them new meaning.

He would…