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It’s polling day for this week’s news and these are the stories that got our vote …

 

... Pussycat Dolls, Meghan Trainor and how ‘Blue Dot Fever’ is wrecking ticket sales

 

… how can you judge a songwriter with eight collaborators?

 

… Dylan’s ‘Judas’ moment 60 years later

 

… is everything becoming binary: thumbs-up or thumbs-down?

 

… Grandmaster Flash, Augustus Pablo, George McRea, Tangerine Dream and the times brand new music was invented

 

… when certain dances got you arrested

 

… Alice in Sunderland? See You In My Drums? Shadows’ song titles rebooted

 

… the hilarious self-positioning of the NME critics’ poll


… plus jazz pioneer Buddy Bolden and thrill of imagining the sound of acts who were never recorded.


Help us to keep The Longest Continuous Conversation In Rock going: https://www.patreon.com/wordinyourear

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