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This week’s news in a conversational cocktail-shaker and served with ice and a little paper parasol. Those Happy Hour highlights include …

 

… six musicians who keep getting better looking

 

… Plas Johnson RIP, a part of everyone’s life for 60 years  

 

… the Odyssey and how Hollywood thinks the rest of the world has a foreign accent

 

… why you couldn’t make Bugsy Malone today

 

… Jonathan Richman’s genuine wide-eyed love of the modern world

 

… Clare Torry’s Pink Floyd payday

 

… “Styrofoam ice buckets full of ice”: the greatest song ever written about life on the road

 

… Mick Jagger, the art of evasion and the exquisite boredom of Stones’ B-sides about America

 

… the four rock stars who played the Artful Dodger

 

… and what John Wayne said to ‘Jesus’.

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