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Stirring the spice-filled gumbo of news and turning the heat up. This week’s nutritious ingredients include ….


… is everything better shorter?


… the greatest opening line in a book ever written


… did Tom Waits, Warren Zevon, Joe Cocker, the Bee Gees, Cheap Trick, Sam Cooke, Talking Heads or Bill Evans make the greatest live album of all time?


… the worst beers Buster Poindexter ever had


… rock stars’ alter egos – Lady Gaga as Jo Calderone, Andy Partridge as Sir John Johns, George Clinton as Mr Wiggles, Justin Hawkins as Sir Voltage Blackthorn!


… Blur, Radiohead, Stones, Doors, Steely Dan, Bowie, Leonard Cohen … they all had a three-year golden streak


… “I’m writing a short letter as I don’t have time to write a long one”


… why the Matrix was a watershed moment


… the three stages of success – getting known, the magnum opus, basking in the glow


… and why we love August N'gutu Leibowitz-Clementine.


Plus Ezra Pound, T.S. Eliot, Buckshot La Funke, birthday guest Phil Hopwood and how everyone at the BBC is a gossip.

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