Pausing occasionally to spark a Senior Service and sink a milk stout, we kick cans down this week’s rock and roll boulevard stopping off at the following hotspots …   

… the “Grunge Dripdown”: why Pearl Jam can play 60,000 seaters.

… the Elton Line, the Dury Line, the Bragg Line, the Kirsty Line …. What the London Overgrounds should have been called and why.

... how Steve Wright made radio and sowed the seeds of the Fast Show and Stella Street.  

… actors who’ve joined the Choir Invisible but live on in voice-over.

… is any musician as closely linked to any instrument as McCartney to his Hofner bass? And the mysterious tale of its theft.

… J&M Studios (where Little Richard’s Tutti Frutti was recorded) is now a launderette with a jukebox. What became of Olympic, Town House, Motown and Bearsville?

… the Radio 2 v Greatest Hits ratings land-grab.

… does anyone under 60 still care about Monty Python?

… the latest glorious chapter in Taylor Swift and Kanye West’s 15-year “beef”.

… “All pop music is Strictly”: what David learnt from his six-year old granddaughters. 

… the voice of Tommy Vance returns by the miracle of AI.

… “an elephant is a horse designed by a committee”.

... plus birthday guest Nick Foreman and why “underrated” is overrated.

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