Jonathan Richman, on-the-road songs and the best-known solo ever recorded

This week’s news in a conversational cocktail-shaker and served with ice and a little paper parasol. Those Happy Hour highlights include … … six musicians who keep getting better looking … Plas Johnson RIP, a part of everyone’s life for 60 years   … the Odyssey and how Hollywood thinks the rest of the world has a foreign accent … why you couldn’t make Bugsy Malone today … Jonathan Richman’s genuine wide-eyed love of the modern world … Clare Torry’s Pink Floyd payday … “Styrofoam ice buckets full of ice”: the greatest song ever written about life on the road … Mick Jagger, the art of evasion and the exquisite boredom of Stones’ B-sides about America … the four rock stars who played the Artful Dodger … and what John Wayne said to ‘Jesus’.Help us to keep The Longest Continuous Conversation In Rock'n'Roll going: https://www.patreon.com/wordinyourear Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.