In which we boldly tackle the burning issues des nos jours in our restless forage for entertainment. Nutritious items on the tasting menu this week include   albums whose cover was over half the sell.  was Jet Black older than all the Beatles

Dannys done two hysterically funny, cartwheeling canters round the UK in the last few years and sets out again in February for 49 nights with At Last The Sausage Sandwich Tour, another panjandrum of unstoppable anecdote. His memories of old rock and

In which the piercing searchlight of conversational scrutiny points in the direction of   Christine McVies early adventures, our burning love for Chicken Shacks 40 Blue Fingers, her Sliding Doors moment in a Dickins & Jones window display,

Phil and his brother Steven started a market stall in Cheltenham in the mid-80s and made enough money selling rare records to open the world-famous Badlands (now occupying three floors of an old coach house). Its been thriving ever since specialising in

in which we remember watching and talking to the magnificent Wilko Johnson and look back at extraordinary moments in his life the hippie trail to India, his appearance on Question Time, the three albums the Feelgoods made in a year, how they discovere

Kens a world authority and hes been on the pod twice before, talking about his books about George Martin and the last days of John Lennon. Hes just revised and updated the one he wrote in 2007, Long And Winding Roads, partly to add new observations a

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-

Things run up the flagpole this week in pursuit of entertainment   Irish/American punk rock group or 19th Century criminal gang?  the eternal dependability of the first Stones album.  does ANYONE not like ska? . seven legends yo

On the radar this week in an enquiring, celebratory or goat-getting capacity   has the World Cup balloon already been unmendably punctured?  and is the same thing happening to Twitter?  if social media had come along earlier would Serg

The teenage Trevor Horn could be found playing bass in dance bands on the Top Rank circuit supporting acts like Tommy Cooper (and singing Long-Haired Lover From Liverpool and Hi-Ho Silver Lining). He began writing songs for Tina Charles, had a worldwide h