Farewell Tom Verlaine – plus terrible records we can’t help loving

Things featured this week in hot pursuit of entertainment and enlightenment …

… seeing Television in 1975 for £1.50 - support act, Blondie.

… Kaleidoscope, Country Joe & the Fish, Fairport Convention and other origins of the Tom Verlaine guitar sound.  

… the mystery voices on The Dark Side Of The Moon, the Clare Torry story and how Pink Floyd used Abbey Road as an instrument.

… “It’s Not You It’s Me”: more classic records that leave us cold – eg Pet Sounds and Humble Pie’s Performance: Rockin' the Fillmore.

… “If Loving You Is Wrong I Don’t Wanna Be Right”: rotten records we’re devoted to – paging Jobriath, Oasis, Hello …

… how the Ashers became Paul McCartney’s adopted family.

… that Nick Kent review of Marque Moon – “Cut the crap, junior, he sez, and put the hyperbole on ice. I concur thus. Sometimes it takes but one record – one cocksure magical statement – to cold-cock all the crapola and all-purpose wheatchaff mix ‘n’ match, to set the whole schmear straight and get the current state of play down down down to stand or fall in one, dignified granite-hard focus!”

… songs with great intros.

 … and birthday patron Kevin Rose flies the flag for ‘Simple Songs’ by Jim O'Rourke.

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