We stuck a few coins in this week’s Wurlitzer and these were the tunes that got played …

… when records became all about sound not songs.

… Fonzworth Bentley, Puff Daddy’s butler, the man who held an umbrella over him on the beach at Cannes.

… what Henry Kissinger, Martha Stewart and Leonardo DiCaprio kept very quiet about.

… Manchester’s Co-Op, a tale of unprecedented hopelessness.

… what’s the definition of a song? And can you steal a record?

… the magical skill of Aston Barrett on I Shot The Sheriff and James Jamerson on You Can’t Hurry Love.

… ‘Duane Eddy Does Bob Dylan’ and its ingenious sleeve.

… does anybody still want pop posters?

… “I'd watch Jeremy Clarkson boil an egg.”

… Moneybagg Yo & DaBaby, Cigarettes After Sex and other acts playing the O2 and Wembley Arena we’ve ever heard of.  

… the ultimate autograph.

… and New Whirl Odor, Road To Rouen, Sax And Violins, Lead Me Not Into Penn Station and other tortuous album titles.

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