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Things in the crosshairs this week include \\u2026

\\u2026 why it took 34 years to get De La Soul on a streaming service.

\\u2026 Radio 2\\u2019s ham-fisted handling of the departure of Ken Bruce \\u2013 and are R2 and Greatest Hits Radio two bald men fighting over a comb if music radio seems doomed to die?

\\u2026 the new fun-sized Axl Rose.

\\u2026 U2\\u2019s stand-in drummer Bram van den Berg is like \\u201cJimmie Nicol on stilts\\u201d.

\\u2026 the BBC and Glastonbury re John Peel: never name anything after a celebrity!

... \\u201cJackson Browne would never have been anything without David Lindley\\u201d.

\\u2026 what made the Spice Girls successful?

\\u2026 Steely Dan\\u2019s Aja, Joni Mitchell\\u2019s Paprika Plains and other places to hear Wayne Shorter\\u2019s divine embroideries.  

\\u2026 comedy skits on records.

\\u2026 plus David Lindley\\u2019s effortless fashion statements \\u2013 \\u201cJackson Browne could emerge from a plane crash looking like Cary Grant but Lindley could have had stylists working round the clock for three days and still looked like an unmade bed\\u201d.

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