It’s polling day for this week’s news and these are the stories that got our vote …

... Pussycat Dolls, Meghan Trainor and how ‘Blue Dot Fever’ is wrecking ticket sales

… how can you judge a songwriter with eight collaborators?

… Dylan’s ‘Judas’ moment 60 years later

… is everything becoming binary: thumbs-up or thumbs-down?

… Grandmaster Flash, Augustus Pablo, George McRea, Tangerine Dream and the times brand new music was invented

… when certain dances got you arrested

… Alice in Sunderland? See You In My Drums? Shadows’ song titles rebooted

… the hilarious self-positioning of the NME critics’ poll

… plus jazz pioneer Buddy Bolden and thrill of imagining the sound of acts who were never recorded.

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Paul Simon, Bad Bunny, how songwriting changed & the scourge of Blue Dot Fever!