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Stuff, nonsense, the white heat of debate and yesterday’s news today! Which this week involves …

 

… which of these didn’t host a TV chat show – Ian Botham, Charlotte Church, Lily Allen or Harold Wilson?

 

… if you’d paid £102 to see two-thirds of the Fugees show up an hour late, wouldn’t you SCREAM for a refund?

 

… Britain’s most rock’n’roll hotel and why the idea of “excess” seems purely American

 

… Dave and Stephane Grappelli at the Sunset Marquis

 

… Reversing Into Tomorrow! We Came, We Saw, We Left! The genius of Stiff Records, “the Motown of Bayswater”, and the oddballs and misfits they signed

 

… “there are only two types of record demand: too little and too much”

 

… “Artistic breakthrough, the first double B-side!” The single that started the Indie boom

 

… and why naked ballet doesn’t work.

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