This week’s crackling logs on the conversational fire include …

… the attractively unchanging sound of Joe Henry’s 15 albums (the man PRs still sell as “Madonna’s brother-in-law”).

… the 45th anniversary of David and Mark’s first meeting – at an Earth Quake gig at Salford University on February 10 1978.

… Neil Tennant’s letter to Janice Long.

… the recommended TV tribulations of Kleo, East German intelligence operative.

… “Is it a nut? Is it a boy? Is it a wino? No, just Wreckless Eric!” A flick through an old Record Mirror from 1978.

… where live music costs £3 a minute.

… did the Beatles and Stones ever sound remotely similar even when playing the same song?

… the Beatles on Juke Box Jury (and what they said about Elvis).  

… Levon Helm’s drum kit.

… plus birthday guest David Messer on why everyone should love Bill Wyman.

… and birthday guest Adrian Ainsworth recommends three classical albums – Sean Shibe’s ‘Lost & Found’, ‘A Verlaine Songbook’ by Carolyn Simpson and Joseph Middleton, and John Adams’ ‘Shaker Loops’.

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