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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Stories Christine McVie told us - including “Freddie King fixed my puncture”
Phil Jump tells the story of the legendary Badlands - and the day he took Steve Van Zandt to Brian Jones’s grave
A farewell to Wilko – “Dr Feelgood didn’t play the music, the music played them.”
Kenneth Womack – author of 12 Beatles books – dives “back through the looking glass”
If you could only listen to one act all week who would you choose?
Dylan’s love letters and the one album that never lets you down
Twitter and World Cup chaos, Jaco Pastorius, gruesome 18th C combat and other matters of high import
Trevor Horn’s adventures in modern recording with ABC, Frankie, Yes and Rod Stewart
Farewell Jerry Lee Lewis and is ‘Talking Book’ the most influential record ever made?
Why did Sheila Rock walk out of a New Order shoot?
What’s the connection between Liz Truss, Bruce Springsteen and Revolver?
Craig Brown - our greatest living satirist – has a theory about Keith Richards
Simon Sebag Montefiore knows the five best songs about history ever written
All of your rock heroes have had work done
King Crimson, Dave Vanian’s shoe and seeing one of the world’s most famous women on a train
50 years of Nuggets, Ian Brown’s karaoke and is there a band name worse than Jealous Nostril?
Hilary Mantel, Zappa track or ad slogan and the day Beefheart sold Aldous Huxley a vacuum-cleaner
Our farewell to the most famous person in the world (and the story of a brief encounter)
You’re not going to Duran Duran’s Halloween party dressed like that!
Celebrity mash-ups! An afternoon with Billy Joel, Ivanka Trump, Bono, Geldof and Rupert Murdoch
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