If you could only listen to one act all week who would you choose?

Further free-wheeling conversational detours include …

… “like the consequences of mating Patti Smith with a Hoover vacuum cleaner”: barbed reviews in the Rolling Stone Record Guide.

… ‘Bowie and Bing in a bauble’? The Taylor Swift ‘Merry Swiftmas’ t-shirt? Real or fictional Christmas accessories.

… the four tracks by women - and there are only four! – among the 66 records Bob Dylan considers in The Philosophy Of Modern Song.  

… “and any eye for detail caught a little lace along the seams”: exquisite descriptions of clothes in Joni Mitchell songs.

… the NME Encyclopedia Of Rock revisited, that well-thumbed, much-loved and indispensable bible from the world before the internet.

… who were Sons of Champlin, the Butts Band and Michael Fennelly?

… magnificent rock books, Nik Cohn’s A Wop Bop A Loo Bop A Lop Bam Boom and Barney Hoskyns’ Hotel California among them.

… and playing Mozart on a ukulele. Plus birthday guest Simon Poulter.

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