The spectacular Dead & Co, songs performed backwards & happy birthday Diamond Dogs!

Tuning into this week's rock and roll soundwave to filter signal from noise, we cranked up the volume on the following ...

... 'Zuma Nester Rock' and the eternal curse of rock stars' kids' names. 

... Bowie's spat with Robbie Williams at Netaid. 

... celebrating awkward sods like Kevin Rowland.

... why Paul Carrack has seen it all.

... 'Lewis' Armstrong, 'Hoosker Doo' and others we've been pronouncing wrong. 

... AI does David Hepworth and Mark Ellen!

... the Underground/Overground albums/singles divide of 1974: the Wombles and Paper Lace v Tubular Bells and Journey To The Centre of The Earth.

... Guy Chambers - a string quartet aged 11! - and other early achievers.

... the Stones' and Bowie's race to have a Guy Peeleart record cover and the 50th anniversary of Diamond Dogs. 

... how the Dead & Co turned a stage show into a movie experience and bands - Radiohead, Kraftwerk, Pet Shop Boys? - who should play the Las Vegas Sphere.

 ... and "the wally with the brolly" and other fresh political PR catastrophes.

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