Encountering the cheerful ping-pong bats of conversation this week you’ll find …
… the most unprepossessing rock band on God’s green earth.
… Ed Sheeran v Marvin Gaye – “the case continues”. But does anybody genuinely copy anyone else these days?
… Springsteen and Michelle Obama and their irresistible thirst for publicity.
… the return of the Stack Waddy game: Spencer Birtwistle? Wilfred Mott? … Bernard Cribbins sitcom character or former member of the Fall?
… Santana’s Caravanserai still sounds like it was made yesterday.
… what Paul McCartney and Coldplay were paid to play Glastonbury.
… if you tell people they’ll like things they tend to look for reasons to disagree but can we (cautiously) recommend the Australian comedy Colin From Accounts?
… Happy 70th, Bill Drummond. We remember his deafening ‘retirement’ exit at the BRITS in 1992 and his exotic activities since.
… the delicate rhythms of the funniest lines by PG Wodehouse.
… a chilling stat involving football academies.
… Harry Belafonte, the original “singer and activist”, and the time he was in a drama class with Walter Matthau and Marlon Brando.
… plus Shakespeare, a light-fingered Noel Gallagher and amplified busking.
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Stewart Lee knows the rigours of ‘animal costume work’ and why great comedy is about shock
How Springsteen went “six deep”, fictional rock hacks and who’s more conservative than Liam Gallagher?
Jon Savage - Dusty’s wig, Bowie’s bombshell and how gay pop culture changed music
“Abba’s success is more about us than them”: Giles Smith looks back at a 50-year love affair
the Architect of Mod: how Peter Meaden restyled and launched the Who - by Steve Turner
Great album trilogies, suing Madonna and "the pantheon of psychedelic heaviosity"
The spectacular Dead & Co, songs performed backwards & happy birthday Diamond Dogs!
Why They Might Be Giants now perform an entire song backwards
Guy Chambers - writing with Robbie, a tangle with Bowie & half a bagel with Paul McCartney
Alan Edwards, pop PR – ‘Bowie was like King Arthur and the Spice Girls like the Pistols’
Rock’s image-makers, men on dancefloors and why bands can’t act like bands anymore
Paul Carrack has seen it all – beat, soul, prog, pub rock, pop & the perfect ‘slow burn’ career.
Nige Tassell was so obsessed with Dexys he’s tracked down all 24 ex-members
Why Nick Mason’s “cottage industry” band plays just early Pink Floyd
Let It Be revisited, the wisdom of Steve Albini and a woeful tale about Steve Marriott
The genius of Little Feat, the Man with the Twang & pop’s greatest scandal in the making
Steve Diggle of the Buzzcocks remembers the day “a terrible beauty was born”
Rock snobbery, the seven wives of Gregg Allman & the greatest solo on a pop record
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