We stuck a few coins in this week’s Wurlitzer and these were the tunes that got played …   … when records became all about sound not songs.   … Fonzworth Bentley, Puff Daddy’s butler, the man who held an umbrella over him on the beach at Cannes.   … what Henry Kissinger, Martha Stewart and...

Steve Diggle met Pete Shelley when the Pistols played Manchester in 1976 and the Diggle-fronted Buzzcocks are now on a world tour that began in Mexico and takes in North and South America, Europe and Australasia before winding up at the 100 Club where they played the Punk Festival 48 years ago –...

This week’s theories, rants, ruminations, recollections, weak gags and free and frank exchanges of view alight upon the following …      … is pop music now all about identity?   …. the recording of the Animals’ House of the Rising Sun and other apocryphal tales.   … has any act been as ubiquitous...