New Nick Drake tapes, Bob Marley’s masterpiece and the Coldplay ‘kiss-cam’.
A rain-splashed, dub-filled, cash-scattering foray into this week’s news and events which happily lands upon … … meeting Maddy Prior – a Prior engagement? – and the time Steeleye Span showered their audience with £8,000. … hearing Nick Drake’s demos on a narrowboat in the pitch dark a few hundred feet below London. … Steve Miller’s cancelled tour, absurdly blamed on the weather. … who’s older, Lulu or the King? Kim Wilde or William Hague? Neil Tennant or Andy Fraser of Free? … Bob Marley at the Lyceum in 1975 – the confidence of their pace, the heft of their sound, what the audience wore. And…
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