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This week\\u2019s winning hand from the rock and roll card deck includes \\u2026

\\u2026 a silver salute to musicians who don\\u2019t dye their hair.

\\u2026 did Al Pacino play Phil Spector? Roger Daltrey as Franz Liszt? Was Gary Oldman Joe Strummer?

\\u2026 rock stars you\\u2019d swap lives with.

\\u2026 the \\u201ctheme-park-ification\\u201d of pop music.

\\u2026 the mysteries of rock and roll are slowly evaporating. As Tom Waits said: \\u201cbefore the internet, we used to wonder. I miss the wondering.\\u201d

\\u2026 the immortality of the Florida salesman who appears on the cover of Abbey Road (and had obituaries when he died).

\\u2026 why Leonard Cohen thought his romance with Joni Mitchell was \\u201clike living with Beethoven\\u201d.

\\u2026 how a split-second made and destroyed the lives of two photographers covering Lee Harvey Oswald at the Dallas Police Headquarters.

\\u2026 musicians who look even better older.  

\\u2026 how Pink Floyd helped kick-start rock\\u2019s love affair with football.  

\\u2026 the unenviable world of Robbie Williams.  

...and is Abba the only act that works as holograms?

Plus Led Zeppelin\\u2019s Victorian Wiltshire thatcher and birthday guests Mike Sketch and Peter Petyt.

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