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Dipping our shrimping nets this week into the ever-bountiful rock and roll rock pool we find \\u2026

\\u2026 Dylan, Madonna, Pharrell Williams, Michael Jackson, Nick Cave and Keith Richards \\u2013 which one didn\\u2019t write a children\\u2019s book?

\\u2026 S Club 7, Miles Davis\\u2019s sessionmen and others apparently ripped off by the heartless, skinflint music industry.

\\u2026 the unsung story of Jack Nitzsche, \\u201cthe man with the golden touch\\u201d, his part in the Stones\\u2019 baroque period and the recordings he made in Barking Town Hall and St Giles Cripplegate.

\\u2026 when Sly Stone got married onstage and the couple who got hitched at a Taylor Swift show.

\\u2026 a \\u201cshort-fingered vulgarian\\u201d and a \\u201cbeaky, crow-coiffed, pleat-faced\\u201d guitarist.

\\u2026 the Gershwin score to Woody Allen\\u2019s Manhattan.

\\u2026 how two thirds of NBA players are bankrupt in 10 years.

... Jimmy Page\\u2019s Shirley Bassey session. 

\\u2026 Rlchard Branson picking up women.

\\u2026 how Jay Craydon\\u2019s still living off a Steely Dan guitar solo.

\\u2026 can any musician hope to make it if they start aged 37?

\\u2026 and somewhat irritatingly Jamie Oliver attaches himself to the celebrity children\\u2019s author gravy train.

Plus birthday guests Stephen Lambe \\u2013\\u201cthat adolescent moment when pop music stops being just a nice noise and becomes Something Important: discuss\\u201d. And Chuck Loncon recommends Matthew Sweet and Susannah Hoffs\\u2019 Under The Covers compilations and the Stay Awake album of songs from Disney films.

Tickets for Word In The Park in London on June 3rd here!: https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/the-happy-return-of-word-in-the-park-tickets-576193870377

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