# Steve Tilston Page: https://stenobird.com/podcast/the-strange-brew-artist-stories-behind-the-greatest-music-ever-recorded-542372/steve-tilston Text version: https://stenobird.com/podcast/the-strange-brew-artist-stories-behind-the-greatest-music-ever-recorded-542372/steve-tilston.md Podcast: [The Strange Brew - artist stories behind the greatest music ever recorded](https://stenobird.com/podcast/the-strange-brew-artist-stories-behind-the-greatest-music-ever-recorded-542372) Published: 2026-07-10T03:00:00+00:00 Episode link: https://thestrangebrew.co.uk/steve-tilston/ Audio file: https://media.blubrry.com/thestrangebrew/thestrangebrew.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2026/06/tilston.mp3 Processing state: not_requested JSON: https://stenobird.com/v1/public/podcasts/the-strange-brew-artist-stories-behind-the-greatest-music-ever-recorded-542372/episodes/steve-tilston Duration seconds: 5192 ## Resource Steve Tilston joins Jason Barnard for a tour through six decades of songwriting, picking thirteen tracks from across his career and talking through the stories behind them. Along the way he covers his early days on the London folk circuit, the frustrating experience of his second album on Transatlantic Records, and the decision to put out a record himself in 1976 when very few people were doing it. He also talks about the famous John Lennon letter, written by Lennon in 1971 after Tilston mused in a ZigZag magazine interview that fame and fortune might damage his songwriting, never delivered, and not seen by Tilston until decades later. The story eventually inspired the 2015 Hollywood film Danny Collins , with Al Pacino in the lead role. Plus collaborations with John Renbourn and Maggie Boyle, and his Radio 2 Folk Award for Best Original Song. Further information stevetilston.com / Bandcamp Steve Tilston podcast tracks Support The Strange Brew Podcasts also available: Ashley Hutchings , Terry Reid , Tom Paxton , Martin Carthy , Peggy Seeger , Nick Drake: The Life This podcast is also available on  Apple Podcasts ,  Spotify ,  YouTube , Google apps and all usual platforms The post Steve Tilston appeared first on The Strange Brew . ## Actions - request_transcript: `POST https://stenobird.com/v1/public/podcasts/the-strange-brew-artist-stories-behind-the-greatest-music-ever-recorded-542372/episodes/steve-tilston/transcription-requests` — Idempotently request low-priority transcript generation for this episode. - read_markdown: `GET https://stenobird.com/podcast/the-strange-brew-artist-stories-behind-the-greatest-music-ever-recorded-542372/steve-tilston.md` — Read the agent-friendly Markdown representation of this episode resource. A page view does not enqueue transcription. Agents should invoke `request_transcript` explicitly when they need this episode processed. ## Transcript Full transcripts are not published on public pages unless there is a clear rights basis.