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Entertaining things subjected to wry and rigorous scrutiny this week include:-

* The most bizarre and tenuous rock autobiographies \\u2013 eg the tell-all revelations of Elvis Presley\\u2019s nurse, Primal Scream\\u2019s tambourine player, Sinatra\\u2019s valet and the girl who made John Lennon a cheese sandwich.

* How Roger Daltrey wound up living in a van.

* Aimee Mann v Steely Dan and the curious world of support acts.

* Would you rather see a \\u201clegend\\u201d or the next big thing?

* The noble tradition of song stealing in reggae.

* \\u201cYour bus leaves in ten minutes, be under it!\\u201d and other inspired ways of dealing with hecklers.  

* If you mailed a letter to \'Andy Partridge, Swindon\' or \'Rod Stewart, Essex\', would they get it?  

* And Dolly Parton\\u2019s dignified escape from the Rock And Roll Hall Of Fame.

Plus there\\u2019s a ceremonial reading of Bono\\u2019s piss-poor poem about Ukraine.  

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