Filling the spinnaker of enquiry on the careering, two-mast schooner of rock and roll this week you will find …

… the prog drummer who made a fortune.

... did Brian Wilson bring a horse into a recording studio? Or write a symphony for drums? Or have an idea involving a hen in tennis shoes?

… why the New York Times review of the new Wham! documentary is ridiculous and wrong.

... the eternal allure of The Larry Sanders Show – “Madam, I killed a man like you in Korea!”

… the curse of identity journalism.

… the most influential British DJ of all time.

… Kenneth Tynan’s exquisite profile of Johnny Carson in the New Yorker and the dark art of being a TV chat show producer.

… the mathematical certainty that every review you ever write will eventually resurface. “Nothing will be forgotten - the afterlife is always longer than the first flush of success.”

… was there ever a briefer ‘fashionable’ moment than that of Guns N’ Roses?

… the great new expression for being drunk – “overserved”.

Watch that deathless Renia clip here …

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Rv0VyHHEj2s&t=11s

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