Unredacted exchanges about the rock and roll underworld this week highlight the following …
… real or made-up stars’ kids’ names: Speck Wildhorse? Blue Ivy? Everly Bear? Motorhead Michelob?
… man plays drum solo with his head!
… Olivia Dean, Lola Young, FKA Twigs: what do today’s ‘professionals’ learn at the BRIT School and what happened to the age of the amateurs?
… why Joni Mitchell’s life was even more extraordinary before she was famous
… Three Dog Night, Kiss, Grand Funk Railroad, Linda Ronstadt: American acts that never broke Britain
… rude, racy, naughty, delightful: our love of old pulp paperbacks
… “Go to your room, young lady, and play a Nick Drake album in its entirety!”
… and when Dandelion became Angela.
Plus birthday guest Paul Higham and why most stars’ stories need a lively biographer.
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