Ringo & his All Starr band would be a great pick. All of the supporting musicians bringing out their party pieces and Mr Starkey acting as MC.

Big brother – Tim. Having watched a few of the reunion clips over the years on YouTube. When they play Oz/NZ, Tim Finn joins them on stage for the Woodface songs.

Did anyone ever hear anyone announce the full title of The Faces final single?
You Can Make Me Dance, Sing Or Anything (Even Take The Dog For A Walk, Mend A Fuse, Fold Away The Ironing Board, Or Any Other […]

Meeting the Starstedt Brothers must have been quite odd. How would you address them? Clive started as Joe Meek/RGM artist Wes Sands, reverted to his real name, but had his only hit “My resistance is low” using his […]

It was John Shuttleworth in an interview said he liked the melodies of the Lighthouse Family. “Two notes!”

How many megastars would be prepared to send themselves up like this.

When I had the cataract removed on my bad eye, ten years ago, I listened to some old Just a Minute & I’m sorry I haven’t a clue, so was quietly chuckling to myself. This time, they had a Tv in the surgery wai […]

@mikethep Good luck with the surgery. I am both the best & worst person to comment on this, as when you’ve only got one functioning eye, things are a lot more complicated. Here’s what I can tell you nearly 2 wee […]

Wet Pants must be the covers version of Wet Leg.

Here’s Tony Visconti breaking down the T Rex sound – using Hot Love (yes, I know it was 1971)

If it’s magnificent Rollers related clips you want, it’s hard to beat this one

The Burning Wood site was raving about this yesterday, suggesting that influences were early Sparks, Talking Heads, Wire, & Kim Deal Pixies.

In the comments, someone pointed out that there’s a Tiny Desk concert

Ferry’s “Duke of Edinburgh” persona. I imagined him addressing the audience “So, have you come far?”

I was going to recommend this option in preference to Readly. Most libraries offer some form of e Library service, which will include magazines & books.
If your library offers free access to Press Reader, even […]

“He drinks Moët et Chandon, with Priti and his cabinet”
“Let’s eat some cake”, she said. His Missis, Carrie Antionette.

This has been on iplayer, but is now on YouTube. A 30 min, very stylised, history of the Divine Comedy.

As we’re so close to Easter, here’s something closer to his Dad’s work

There’ll be tutting in Kyiv & calling me a “pirrock”

On this evening’s ITV London news, they had an interview with the bass player on this song, who they introduced & captioned as Guy “Platt”. The interviewer (Duncan Golestani) also compounded the errors by calli […]

Like you, I was admiring that guitar & remembered it’s actually a modified Esquire nicknamed the workmate.
Here’s the background on it

But really we should be concentrating on the situation in Ukraine!