Why all great pop stars are cartoons, Bowie doing mime and people whose voices we’ve never heard

Passing the Dutchie 'pon the left-hand side, we sift through this week’s events, rants and theories which absorbingly include … … that Drake v Kendrick Lamar beef in full! … was Bowie only as good as his collaborators? … Kingmaker, Toploader, Feeder, Slayer, Longdancer, Widowmaker …. has there ever been a good band with a name ending ‘-er’? …… seeing the Jam at the Hope & Anchor. … John Lennon was not a working-class hero. Bob Marley shot no sheriffs. Joe Strummer’s daddy wasn’t a bankrobber. Starship patently never built any cities on rock and roll. Monstrous rock and roll untruths exposed! … why Film Star Good-Looking is different from Rock Star Good-Looking. … one glove, a swan dress, comedy specs, a snake, a bat …. Pop stars with a cartoonable signature. … Woody Allen, Lisa Kudrow, Scarlett Johansson and the Kanye West clip that was never sanctioned. … JD Salinger, Scott Joplin, Thomas Pynchon, Banksy – people whose voices we’ve never heard. … the gripes of Taylor Swift. … ‘An Interminable Appetite For Spite’ and other album titles in waiting. … and Buffy Sainte-Marie and the perils of misrepresentation. Plus birthday guest Chris Lintott remembers seeing Bowie as a mime artist. Find out more about how to help us to keep the conversation going: https://www.patreon.com/wordinyourear Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.