We lobbed the feathered arrows of enquiry at the rock and roll dartboard this week and these got the highest scores …
… rock stars v the new league of the Super-Rich.
… package tours of the mid-‘60s – eight acts, an interval, a compere plus God Save the Queen.
… ‘Hits, Flops and Other Illusions’ by Edward Zwick and the fantastic tale about arrogance, money-squandering and Julia Roberts at the Halcyon Hotel.
... pop music used to be about persuading people to cut loose; now it’s about getting them to tighten up.
… why you can read Ron Wood’s memoir as either comedy or tragedy.
.. Chris Blackwell’s post-production trickery that sold Bob Marley to a rock audience.
… Master Tape Rescue: the arduous task of panning for gold.
... and why there should be a movie about the making of Shakespeare in Love.
Plus birthday guest Chuck Loncon in Savannah, Georgia – Neil Young v Spotify, Lady Antebellum, the Dixie Chicks and the tangled world of political correctness.
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Harold Bronson of Rhino Records kept a 40-year rock and roll diary…
The “amniotic throb” of modern pop, the eternal life of the Top Gear theme and the Blue Nile’s lucky break
Neil Tennant remembers life “with dyed red Bowie hair and clattering platforms”
Richard Thompson – “you know it’s time to go when the audience starts throwing chairs”
Neil Tennant remembers the pop press and “the last great era of forward-looking songs"
The Stones’ clothes, our love affair with Abba & rock’s most appalling spectacle
Big Characters we have loved and why the Clash wouldn’t last ten minutes in 2024
How Paul Cook broke into Hammersmith Odeon to see the Who, Slade, Queen & Alex Harvey
Sharleen Spiteri saw Joe Strummer onstage and thought “that’s what I want to be”
Album sleeves as lifestyle statements and 5 seconds that made Phil Manzanera a fortune
Phil Manzanera Part 2: an insider’s guide to Roxy Music (and a great Bob Dylan story)
Phil Manzanera’s enviable life in Roxy Music and beyond
Fish is bowing out to become a Hebridean shepherd. What’s he learnt in 45 years onstage?
The extraordinary story of Steve Harley’s greatest hit
Great divorce albums, Powerpop snobs and dark tales of 1999
Stephen Fall’s reviewed 3,333 of his albums. Buy the book!
It’s Arthur Brown, the god of hellfire … paging Health & Safety!
Suzi Ronson - Bowie’s stylist - knows why rock and roll is all about hair
How the Beatles invented pop video and acts we love who always sound the same
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