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Encountering the cheerful ping-pong bats of conversation this week you’ll find …

 

… the most unprepossessing rock band on God’s green earth.

 

… Ed Sheeran v Marvin Gaye – “the case continues”. But does anybody genuinely copy anyone else these days?

 

… Springsteen and Michelle Obama and their irresistible thirst for publicity.  

 

… the return of the Stack Waddy game: Spencer Birtwistle? Wilfred Mott? … Bernard Cribbins sitcom character or former member of the Fall?

 

… Santana’s Caravanserai still sounds like it was made yesterday.

 

… what Paul McCartney and Coldplay were paid to play Glastonbury.

 

… if you tell people they’ll like things they tend to look for reasons to disagree but can we (cautiously) recommend the Australian comedy Colin From Accounts?

 

… Happy 70th, Bill Drummond. We remember his deafening ‘retirement’ exit at the BRITS in 1992 and his exotic activities since.

 

… the delicate rhythms of the funniest lines by PG Wodehouse.  

 

… a chilling stat involving football academies.

 

… Harry Belafonte, the original “singer and activist”, and the time he was in a drama class with Walter Matthau and Marlon Brando.

 

… plus Shakespeare, a light-fingered Noel Gallagher and amplified busking.


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