The afterlife of Hallelujah and the day David sold his old singles
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We ran our patent heat-sensing Scrutiniser®️ over the week’s news and here’s what set the bells off …
… are buskers now more expensive live entertainment than Taylor Swift?
… a Dickensian oik in Chapel Market and other riddles of modern etiquette.
… ‘Holiness and horniness’: how Hallelujah rebooted Leonard Cohen and became a one-song industry.
… the teenage self-promotional flair of Robert Plant and Marc Bolan.
… are singles a social experience and albums a solitary one?
… “Would you like a fruit gum?”: the 1950s in a single phrase.
… highly recommended: Wendy Waldman, Brian Blade & The Fellowship Band and ‘The Room’ by Fabiano do Nascimento.
… rock snobs’ alarm about the revelations of their Spotify Wrapped.
… why the Sherman Brothers are as enduring as Lennon-McCartney.
… Hallelujah cover versions - from kd lang and Rufus Wainwright to Johnny Mathis and the Osmonds.
... how King David removed ‘love rival’ Uriah the Hittite.
… reconnecting with records you haven’t heard for 40 years.
… whatever happened to She Sherriff?!
… Loudon Wainwright’s early inference about the YMCA.
… plus Lindsey Buckingham, Hugh Lloyd, Tony Hancock and fond memories of “stolen cheese guy”.
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