Uploaded December 2025 | Updated September 2026, 2 weeks ago

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Deck the halls with cheese and Bolly! … and a dish of the usual rock and roll distraction which this week throws the following logs on the fire …

… the greatest Xmas single ever?

… Metal Machine Music, Cut the Crap, Two Sides of the Moon … can panned records ever be rehabilitated?

… how Roxy Music invented ‘rock brand-value’ and turned it into pictures

… Joe Ely and the romance of songs about the American landscape

… Rob Reiner and why that scene in When Harry Met Sally is the greatest marriage of people and ideas

… the real-life moment that inspired Spinal Tap

… “most American pop music is about geography”

… "I keep my fingernails long so they click when I play the piano"

… Jordan Carl Wheeler Davis? Michael Holbrook Penniman Jr? Mystery acts playing Wembley Arena

… the British think America is “fabulous and otherworldly”. Americans think Britain is “quaint”

… plus the magnificent McGarrigles’ Christmas Hour, farewell Hofner and we name the Finnegan’s Wake of rock music!

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