Jeff Beck, Johnny Depp and how to ‘rockwash’ your tarnished reputation
We give the week a spirited shakedown to see what falls out of its pockets. And this includes … The late Ronnie Hawkins – road hog, stunt diver, bootleg liquor smuggler! Who’s the only original rock and roller now still alive? If you went to see Jeff Beck and Johnny Depp lumbered on to “jam”, how monumentally hacked off would you be? Kiss have handed in their lunchpails and eyebrow pencils. Shouldn’t more hoary old rock acts “retire out of self-respect”? What Danny Boyle’s Pistol mini-series explains about the band’s urge to succeed – and its corniest moments revisited. Frank Sinatra, Elvis…
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