Things in the crosshairs this week include …

… why it took 34 years to get De La Soul on a streaming service.

… Radio 2’s ham-fisted handling of the departure of Ken Bruce – and are R2 and Greatest Hits Radio two bald men fighting over a comb if music radio seems doomed to die?

… the new fun-sized Axl Rose.

… U2’s stand-in drummer Bram van den Berg is like “Jimmie Nicol on stilts”.

… the BBC and Glastonbury re John Peel: never name anything after a celebrity!

... “Jackson Browne would never have been anything without David Lindley”.

… what made the Spice Girls successful?

… Steely Dan’s Aja, Joni Mitchell’s Paprika Plains and other places to hear Wayne Shorter’s divine embroideries.  

… comedy skits on records.

… plus David Lindley’s effortless fashion statements – “Jackson Browne could emerge from a plane crash looking like Cary Grant but Lindley could have had stylists working round the clock for three days and still looked like an unmade bed”.

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