After 40 days of relentless rain, you need our little ray of sunshine. And here we all are! Sitting in the rock’n’roll rainbow this week you’ll find …
... the Wuthering Heights instagram gold-rush
… licensing Foreigner and Lynyrd Skynyrd: when is a band not a band?
.. what Michael Jackson asked the Superbowl promoter
… one long video for Charli XCX: “if that film was playing in my back garden I’d draw the curtains”
… Bob Dylan & Kurtis Blow, Kate Winslet & ‘Weird Al’ Yankovic: a brief history of weird duets
… a walk-on forest, 300 extras, 29 hidden messages: how can you top Bad Bunny? (“Disgusting!” – D Trump)
… what a 1969 Rock Encylopedia said about “the poets and minstrels of our time”
… “biopics are designed for people who don’t know the subject”
... Paul Anka did Smells Like Teen Spirit? The Flaming Lips did Kylie Minogue?
… whippets, flat caps, bottles of stout: begone hoary old Yorkshire clichés!
… “that’s the biggest power station in Western Europe – and I know the manager!”: our love for Alan Bennett
… plus Top Gear, M*A*S*H, Twins Peaks, Arena (by Brian Eno) and birthday guest Paul Monaghan on great TV theme tunes.
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