Kanye West & the billion dollar gym pumps plus the album sleeve that changed the game

The week’s rock and roll luggage was put through the scanner by our sharp-eyed security chiefs and the following items kept back for scrutiny …

… 82 year-old jazzer in lucrative samples windfall!

… is there a more excruciating ‘mum’ moment than the 12 year-old Elijah Blue Allman’s in the Cher video If I Could Turn Back Time?

…. the staggering sum total of what the Beatles did on 30 July 1963.

… “Mailbox money”: how Phil Manzanera made more from a hip hop record than from 15 years of Roxy Music

… why would anyone be a pop star these days?

… further proof that in the world of the internet nothing is forgotten.

… why the quantity of cash Kanye West pulled from the “athleisure” shoe market makes the music business look like toytown. And are “vintage trainers” the new rare vinyl?

… when was the first sample?

… and Christmas with David’s Uncle Stan.

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