Record shops in movies and what Glenda Jackson did that no other actor ever dared try

This week’s pod veers off the conversational highway to break out its picnic hamper at the following leafy locations ….

… the Stackwaddy game: metal band or clawed demon from Dante’s Inferno?

… when bands stopped being good-looking.

… Paul Simon’s Seven Psalms: how long can you give a record before it clicks?

… Tony ‘TS’ McPhee of the Groundhogs (RIP) and the great British blues underground: cue the scent of damp greatcoats.

… does anything capture the time better than a record shop in a movie?

… the hard-fought life of Glenda Jackson plus “All men are fools and what makes them so is having beauty like what I have got”.

… eternally recommended: the crestfallen, poignant, melancholy world of the Fountains of Wayne.

… the moment in A Clockwork Orange that gave us Heaven 17 and Fuzzy Warbles.

… streaming services are now editing the movies they carry (eg the French Connection): Doesn’t this infantilize the audience?

… We Are Family. Are Ringo Starr and Joe Walsh related? Is Suzi Quatro Sherilyn Fenn’s aunt?

… a unique literary double-act: Robert Caro and the late Bob Gottlieb.

… how subtitles change the way we watch.

… Paul McCartney, consummate press-wrangler.

… and the lost appeal of late-night movie screenings.

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