And yes Dolenz’s voice is a miracle.

He should do a whole album with Ben Gibbard style songwriters, like Good Times, but with credible indie cool people supplying him with a whole raft of Me and Magdalenas.

Rubber Soul might as well be a Greatest Hits anyway. It is for me.

First time I put Rubber Soul on in the car for a family drive, the wife said “is this a greatest hits?” and it took me years to realise why. If you grew up on red and blue, it skews your perception of the Beatles canon completely.

Bum. Just missing you by about 24 hours.

Women hate the Beatles. Hence all that black and white footage of screaming middle aged men.

Yes. It was to see off accusations of unfair competition within the marketplace. But it’s always been contentious that the national broadcaster was also the national news gatherer. And for TV even more so. It was far from the primary purpose of the BBC.

Defund BBC News. Make more sketch shows. It’s simple.

Well… There’s not enough fingers (animation) and too many fingers (AI) and they read very differently.

I imagine if the legal threats hadn’t worked, he’d have thrown Lego at Cornell

Ooh. I was going for Robin Redbreast or Baby. But to each their own.

“Can you smell it? Just by the chimney breast. It’s real ale…”

The excoriating section on Grosse and Playfair and the Enfield case - which was removed from Cornell’s memoir after legal threats of defamation - is sensational.

FUN FACT: Sir Charles Curran was forced to resign as Director-General after Pyramids of Mars implied Sutekh, god of violence, was bad.

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