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The greatest duet, rock cameos in Miami Vice and the rebirth of Mississippi John Hurt
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Passing the thermometer of conversation over the rock and roll news to see where the mercury rises, which this week includes …
… the new Barbra Streisand duets album. Duets are ‘playlets’, small intense dramas that depend on human interaction, but so many are recorded separately (including, tragically, Ain’t No Mountain High Enough by Marvin Gaye and Tammi Terrell).
… but … duets you HAVE to hear! eg Cash & Carter, Otis Redding & Carla Thomas, Ray Charles & Betty Carter, Siouxsie & Morrissey, Nick Cave & Kylie, Peter Gabriel & Kate Bush.
… the extraordinary story of the rebirth and Indian Summer of Mississippi John Hurt after 40 years of invisibility.
… blues lyrics that now seem unimaginable.
… Frank Zappa as a drug dealer? Miles Davis as a pimp? Cyndi Lauper as a trophy wife? Real or made-up Miami Vice rock star cameos.
… great opening lines – “We got married in a fever …!”
… how you always learn something you never knew about someone from their obituary - like Mike Peters’ involvement in the highest altitude concert ever performed (on Everest with Glenn Tilbrook and Slim Jim Phantom).
… where people listen to the Word In Your Ear “poddy” – eg in the bath, in court, at wedding receptions, by the Allman Brothers’ graveside.
Plus birthday guest John Montagna on rock stars who should be in a TV series.
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