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If you could only listen to one act all week who would you choose?

Published: Nov. 23, 2022, 5:23 p.m.

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Further free-wheeling conversational detours include \\u2026

 

\\u2026 \\u201clike the consequences of mating Patti Smith with a Hoover vacuum cleaner\\u201d: barbed reviews in the Rolling Stone Record Guide.


\\u2026 \\u2018Bowie and Bing in a bauble\\u2019? The Taylor Swift \\u2018Merry Swiftmas\\u2019 t-shirt? Real or fictional Christmas accessories.


\\u2026 the four tracks by women - and there are only four! \\u2013 among the 66 records Bob Dylan considers in The Philosophy Of Modern Song.  

 

\\u2026 \\u201cand any eye for detail caught a little lace along the seams\\u201d: exquisite descriptions of clothes in Joni Mitchell songs.

 

\\u2026 the NME Encyclopedia Of Rock revisited, that well-thumbed, much-loved and indispensable bible from the world before the internet.

 

\\u2026 who were Sons of Champlin, the Butts Band and Michael Fennelly?


\\u2026 magnificent rock books, Nik Cohn\\u2019s A Wop Bop A Loo Bop A Lop Bam Boom and Barney Hoskyns\\u2019 Hotel California among them.

 

\\u2026 and playing Mozart on a ukulele. Plus birthday guest Simon Poulter.


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