Jonathan Richman, on-the-road songs and the best-known solo ever recorded

This week’s news in a conversational cocktail-shaker and served with ice and a little paper parasol. Those Happy Hour highlights include …

… six musicians who keep getting better looking

… Plas Johnson RIP, a part of everyone’s life for 60 years

… the Odyssey and how Hollywood thinks the rest of the world has a foreign accent

… why you couldn’t make Bugsy Malone today

… Jonathan Richman’s genuine wide-eyed love of the modern world

… Clare Torry’s Pink Floyd payday

… “Styrofoam ice buckets full of ice”: the greatest song ever written about life on the road

… Mick Jagger, the art of evasion and the exquisite boredom of Stones’ B-sides about America

… the four rock stars who played the Artful Dodger

… and what John Wayne said to ‘Jesus’.

Help us to keep The Longest Continuous Conversation In Rock'n'Roll going: https://www.patreon.com/wordinyourear

Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.