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This week’s pod veers off the conversational highway to break out its picnic hamper at the following leafy locations ….

 

… the Stackwaddy game: metal band or clawed demon from Dante’s Inferno?

 

… when bands stopped being good-looking.

 

… Paul Simon’s Seven Psalms: how long can you give a record before it clicks?

 

… Tony ‘TS’ McPhee of the Groundhogs (RIP) and the great British blues underground: cue the scent of damp greatcoats.

 

… does anything capture the time better than a record shop in a movie?

 

… the hard-fought life of Glenda Jackson plus “All men are fools and what makes them so is having beauty like what I have got”.

 

… eternally recommended: the crestfallen, poignant, melancholy world of the Fountains of Wayne.

 

… the moment in A Clockwork Orange that gave us Heaven 17 and Fuzzy Warbles.

 

… streaming services are now editing the movies they carry (eg the French Connection): Doesn’t this infantilize the audience?

 

… We Are Family. Are Ringo Starr and Joe Walsh related? Is Suzi Quatro Sherilyn Fenn’s aunt?

 

… a unique literary double-act: Robert Caro and the late Bob Gottlieb.

 

… how subtitles change the way we watch.

 

… Paul McCartney, consummate press-wrangler.

 

… and the lost appeal of late-night movie screenings.


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