This week’s news in three separate files - the Good, the Bad and the Befuddling. Which involves …
… have Oasis created their own economy?
… are stadium gigs now like historical re-enactment?
… “people listen to music more intently in Manchester as they’re inside while it rains”
… ‘includes All Things Must Pass miniature garden gnomes!’ The mad money-draining joy of the luxury box-set
… when bands don’t change but audiences do
…Sun = Happiness, Rain = Sorrow: lyrics as an emotional weather forecast
… the pianist who wouldn’t play minor chords
… Nicky Hopkins on records by the Kinks, Beatles, Who and Stones (“She’s A Rainbow was like a music-box Mozart”): has any session player made a more vital contribution?
… “Lose two teeth in German nightclub brawl, go back to Burnage”: real and fictitious rock band Monopoly sets!
… Blue Nile, Ann Peebles, Beautiful South, Paul Simon? What’s the best song about rain?
Plus J Blackfoot, Paul Simon’s Kathy from Brentwood and birthday guest Matthew North.
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