Was Bad Bunny at the Superbowl the greatest show ever staged?

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.

Help us to keep the conversation going: https://www.patreon.com/wordinyourear

Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.