Spaced-out break-up songs from hippy cult survivors

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David Johansen and Sylvain Sylvain tour new Rundgren-produced LP

Replica T-shirts, programmes, posters, flyers and tickets...

When The Duke & The King made their UK debut at London’s Bush Hall in May, I seem to remember there being at certain points up to about nine people on stage, including on at least one number four people playing guitars, someone on keyboards, a couple of backing singers and, of course, Simone Felice, late of The Felice Brothers, and his new musical partner Robert “Chicken” Burke on vocals. The evening also included a lot of instrument-swapping, principally between Simone and Burke, who took turns at the drum stool.

Singer recovers from for suspected food poisoning

Two things from the weekend. First, I finally dipped into the Beatles remasters, after several weeks of shrugging, mild curiosity and morbid suspicion of overhype. Oh, and a lot of me reiterating my default position of claiming The Beatles weren’t that great – a position which, yet again, was shown up to be more or less complete idiocy when I actually bothered to listen to them. Come on, “Blue Jay Way”!

The mad, bad trip of Altamont in close-up

The wild life of Jesco White, Virginia's 'dancing outlaw'

More appealing willfulness from Mancunian legend