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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The Beatles as seen by their roadie, co-conspirator & friend Mal Evans – and Kenneth Womack
A drink to Shane MacGowan, Spinal Tap rebooted and lunch with Randy Newman
Pauline Murray’s kids have finally found out what Mum did in the Punk Wars
Glen Matlock and the ‘Sliding Doors moment’ that sparked the punk rock fuse
Does anyone know more about rock stars than Jenny Boyd?
Who’s next for an AI movie, first use of sampling & rock stars in unsuitable clothes
Kanye West & the billion dollar gym pumps plus the album sleeve that changed the game
The 2-Tone story - Daniel Rachel remembers the school playground “turning black and white”
Why Kirsty MacColl was so funny, honest, original and impossible to sell – by Jude Rogers
Mystery people on album sleeves, Elton dressed as a hornet and Leonard Cohen’s favourite song and why
Slade, a rambunctious reminder of a vanished world by Daryl Easlea
The KLF torched £1m "and are haunted by it daily". John Higgs knows why
What did we think of the Beatles' last hurrah?
For Ian Broudie & the Lightning Seeds, 'Three Lions' has been a blessing and a curse
Billy Sloan, the man who interviewed Grace Jones in a bath
The greatest guitarist & the strange tale of Mike Raven - plus a leaked Radio One memo!
Pin-Ups’ 50th, Morrissey The Eternal Teenager and what the Stones should be writing songs about
The “gangsterish” charm of Andrew Loog Oldham and Immediate Records, by Simon Spence
Denmark Street, London's Tin Pan Alley, where the Sex Pistols met Pink Floyd and a luverly bunch of coconuts, by Peter Watts
Madonna’s karaoke show, albums that sound their covers and whatever happened to protest music?
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