E943 - 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

 

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