After 40 days of relentless rain, you need our little ray of sunshine. And here we all are! Sitting in the rock’n’roll rainbow this week you’ll find …

... the Wuthering Heights instagram gold-rush

… licensing Foreigner and Lynyrd Skynyrd: when is a band not a band?

.. what Michael Jackson asked the Superbowl promoter

… one long video for Charli XCX: “if that film was playing in my back garden I’d draw the curtains”

… Bob Dylan & Kurtis Blow, Kate Winslet & ‘Weird Al’ Yankovic: a brief history of weird duets

… a walk-on forest, 300 extras, 29 hidden messages: how can you top Bad Bunny? (“Disgusting!” – D Trump)

… what a 1969 Rock Encylopedia said about “the poets and minstrels of our time”

… “biopics are designed for people who don’t know the subject”

... Paul Anka did Smells Like Teen Spirit? The Flaming Lips did Kylie Minogue?

… whippets, flat caps, bottles of stout: begone hoary old Yorkshire clichés!

… “that’s the biggest power station in Western Europe – and I know the manager!”: our love for Alan Bennett

 … plus Top Gear, M*A*S*H, Twins Peaks, Arena (by Brian Eno) and birthday guest Paul Monaghan on great TV theme tunes.

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