• The afterlife of Hallelujah and the day David sold his old singles

  • Dec 17 2024
  • Length: 52 mins
  • Podcast

The afterlife of Hallelujah and the day David sold his old singles

  • Summary

  • 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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