We spun the week’s rock and roll roulette wheel and this is where the balls landed … 

… why all rock biopics are worth seeing once.

… ‘demixing’: we spent ages perfecting records. Now we’re unperfecting them.

… the adorable hand-drawn flyer the 15 year-old Robert Plant made for his band Blacksnake Moan 60 years ago – “the weirdest, wildest sound in R&B!”

… are all musicians driven by the urge to please their mums?

… Pyjamarama, Crazy Diamond, Cigarettesnalcohol and other rock and roll racehorses.

… why “The Room” by Fabiano do Nascimento and Sam Gendel is “healing music”.

… has anyone been ‘bigger’ than Taylor Swift? And how can she be so universally popular and yet we can go through life without hearing a note of her music?

… the Pet Shop Boys at the London Palladium: “we don’t do waving”.

… “Something's lost but something's gained in living every day” – Joni Mitchell.

… are any possesions more precious than records?

... and birthday guest Kevin Rose recommends the Brian Wilson biopic Love & Mercy – and we talk about Control (Joy Division), Backbeat (the early Beatles), Rocket Man and Baz Luhrmann’s Elvis.

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