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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Jack Nitzche, a “pleat-faced” guitarist and the time Sly Stone got married onstage
John Cooper Clarke reveals “the performing poet’s worst enemy”
“Fred Flange”, Barry Cryer meets the Pretenders and what we’ve learnt about the Velvet Underground
The inscrutable King Crimson exposed by their documentary-maker Toby Amies
Paul Weller as a songwriter? Dylan Jones unpacks his “Imperial Phase"
What’s Paul Jones of the Manfreds learnt from 60 years onstage?
Do we still need film and album reviews? Plus Seymour Stein and Keith Reid’s last fandangos
Why Andrew Lauder is the unsung hero of the record business
Is U2’s new Songs Of Surrender album just plain *wrong*?
15 minutes with Teenage Fanclub’s Norman Blake: it all started on Blackpool Pier (aged two) …
Is U2’s new Songs Of Surrender album just plain wrong?
Genuinely rotten albums by brilliant artists plus the band that started cancel culture
For the love of Wayne Shorter & David Lindley - and are U2 really U2 without Larry Mullen?
Is Karen Carpenter pop music’s saddest story?
Was the pop boom of 1996-2006 a comedy or a tragedy?
What the Beatles said about the Stones plus the most expensive live music in London
Was Chuck Berry the strangest man in the history of rock?
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