October 2013

October 10, 2013 David Hepworth 0

I was somewhat preoccupied so I didn’t. Which is a shame because it seemed to go very well. Can’t tell you how much simpler it […]

Word In Your Ear

David Hepworth, Mark Ellen and chums cast an occasionally jaundiced eye over the goings-on in the worlds of music and entertainment.

This week’s news in a conversational cocktail-shaker and served with ice and a little paper parasol. Those Happy Hour highlights include …

… six musicians who keep getting better looking

… Plas Johnson RIP, a part of everyone’s life for 60 years

… the Odyssey and how Hollywood thinks the rest of the world has a foreign accent

… why you couldn’t make Bugsy Malone today

… Jonathan Richman’s genuine wide-eyed love of the modern world

… Clare Torry’s Pink Floyd payday

… “Styrofoam ice buckets full of ice”: the greatest song ever written about life on the road

… Mick Jagger, the art of evasion and the exquisite boredom of Stones’ B-sides about America

… the four rock stars who played the Artful Dodger

… and what John Wayne said to ‘Jesus’.

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