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In powerful pursuit of amusement and distraction we aim the piercing supertrouper of scrutiny this week in the direction of \\u2026

\\u2026 why Ry Cooder MUST write a memoir.

\\u2026 records that sounded like nothing you\\u2019d ever heard before, eg the Message by Grandmaster Flash and Donna Summer\\u2019s I Feel Love.  

... nighttime footage of the State Funeral rehearsal.

\\u2026 why \\u2018Delhi Crime\\u2019 on TV makes the Wire\\u2019s Baltimore look like Stoke Poges.

\\u2026 dinner with the \\u201cfantastically indiscreet\\u201d Tony King.

\\u2026 why Hilary Mantel was such a phenomenal writer \\u2013 and an extract that demonstrates it.

\\u2026 the return of the Stackwaddy game: James Brown/Frank Zappa track or advertising slogan?

\\u2026 Beefheart selling Aldous Huxley a vacuum cleaner.

Plus \\u2026 birthday patron Ed Newman beams in from his shift at the Glasgow Royal Infirmary with thoughts about Ravel\\u2019s Bolero, Dylan and Beatles podcasts and an inspired music book idea with a medical twist that someone must \\u2013 MUST! \\u2013 publish!

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