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Piping hot topics fondly booted round the park this week include … are any actors ever convincing when playing a famous rock star? Does it matter if movies “based on a true story” are largely fiction? Why David’s never got on with Love’s Forever Changes. Did Entertainment Weekly exist just to provide a pleasant lifestyle for the people who worked on it? Plus … the connection between Captain Beefheart and blue cheese, Eddie Izzard’s drilling cats, memorable art theft, tambourine players in rock and another great story about ‘Under My Thumb’ being played at a wedding reception. And birthday-partying patrons David Carroll and Adrian Ainsworth put their questions to the panel and flag up Japan and ‘Strange Kind of Love’ by Love And Money.
Baz Luhrmann’s Elvis …
https://youtu.be/OWi2lFLe4Cg
Inventing Anna …
https://youtu.be/65xa8TG2G8o
The Duke …
https://youtu.be/65xa8TG2G8o
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We lobbed the feathered arrows of enquiry at the rock and roll dartboard this week and these got the highest scores …
… rock stars v the new league of the Super-Rich.
… package tours of the mid-‘60s – eight acts, an interval, a compere plus God Save the Queen.
… ‘Hits, Flops and Other...
Published 04/15/24
Neil’s an old friend from our days back at Smash Hits in the early ‘80s. The first Pet Shop Boys demos were played on the office tape machine, though he was a bit self-conscious about “the one with the rap on it”. He’s always had a journalistic capacity for story-telling, remembering everything...
Published 04/11/24