The super-trouper of gentle enquiry alights this week upon …

… why bands are at their biggest when they’re over the hill.

… Fats Waller v Morrissey song titles: can YOU tell your Waller from your Wallower?

… how could Dylan have written Queen Jane Approximately aged only 24?

… why you should hear Pieces Of Treasure by Rickie Lee Jones, particularly the track All The Way.

… the social media bin-fire that’s shredding the reputation of Bobby Gillespie and how Twitter loves a character assassination - “Pound shop Mick Jagger! Always a charlatan!”

… was anyone worse equipped for the rigours of the pop circus than Nick Drake?

… “big” 20-album record collections, board games and no telly: fond memories of real life in late ‘60s London.  

… Richard Thompson and Nick Drake’s painfully awkward tube journey.

… what risible sum Astrud Gilberto was paid for The Girl From Ipanema.

… and why Springsteen was called “the Boss”.

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