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Mystery people on album sleeves, Elton dressed as a hornet and Leonard Cohen’s favourite song and why

This week’s winning hand from the rock and roll card deck includes … … a silver salute to musicians who don’t dye their hair. … did Al Pacino play Phil Spector? Roger Daltrey as Franz Liszt? Was Gary Oldman Joe Strummer? … rock stars you’d swap lives with. … the “theme-park-ification” of pop music. … the mysteries of rock and roll are slowly evaporating. As Tom Waits said: “before the internet, we used to wonder. I miss the wondering.” … the immortality of the Florida salesman who appears on the cover of Abbey Road (and had obituaries when he died). … why Leonard Cohen thought his romance…

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