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A tub-thumping, snare-cracking, cymbal-simmering, two-way backbeat to this week’s rock and roll news, the on-beats including …

 

… “Trauma-bonding?” Why being ‘a fan’ is like a love affair

 

… Ian Brown, Morrissey, Siouxsie, Janis Joplin, Jim Morrison … why singers who don’t play an instrument are a different species

 

… the stadium-rock drummer transfer window

 

… Sigourney Weaver at Shea Stadium in ’65

 

… singers who don’t sound like their personalities

 

… what can a singer-songwriter write about if they get famous at 18?

 

… the unreleased Beatles Holy Grail?

 

… can you be a fan of someone younger than you are?


Find out more about how to help us to keep the conversation going: https://www.patreon.com/wordinyourear

 

… how do you know a drummer’s knocking on your door?

 

… plus Leonard Cohen, Phil Oakey and are you ever too old to be wearing a Libertines military tunic?

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