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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PP Arnold remembers life in the Ike & Tina Turner Revue aged 17
The things Bruce and Bing have in common and the adventures of Punch in 1976 clubland
Nick Drake - and what Richard Morton Jack learnt from 200 people who knew him
Cathi Unsworth was a teenage goth. Think “Robert Smith’s tarantula hair” and “cider like turps”
Wham!, Rock Follies and lost ‘70s prog foot-soldiers Renia – we will remember them!
Cocteau Twins song or Farrow & Ball paint colour? plus the day Beatlemania began
Grotesque/brilliant sleeves plus does upping the price make a ticket more desirable?
Harvey Lisberg – managing 10cc, meeting Elvis and “Peter Noone’s extra tooth”
Record shops in movies and what Glenda Jackson did that no other actor ever dared try
Revenge songs, Nick Drake and that sorry tale about Primal Scream
Word In The Park 2023 #4 – Clare Grogan's adventures in TV, film and music
Word In The Park 2023: How the Beatles and James Bond shaped us all
Word In The Park 2023 #2 – 60 years of the Bee Gees with Bob Stanley
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What bands are becoming unfashionable?
Which is the most two-faced world - movies, music or daytime TV?
Farewell Tina Turner – “all you needed was Nutbush City Limits and a Watneys Party 7”
Robert Johnson, Shakespeare and the rock star image of Martin Amis
Is there a more annoying rhyme than “arms” and “charms”?
How a nine-year-old boy kick-started Rock’n’Roll (and other stories)
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