The flute at the end of You've Got To Hide Your Love Away.
The keyboards in the middle of LA Woman.
The xylophone? glockenspiel? in Cecilia.
Ginger Baker on Toad by Cream - 3 years before Moby Dick.
As someone has mentioned, the fiddle at the end of Baba O'Riley.
As for Clarence, too many to chose from, and Jungleland is…

Um, you missed out Almost Blue?

Noted, thanks. I don't know why it took me so long, really.

I've got a real soft spot for Ultravox, especially Vienna and Rage In Eden.

My favourite Dire Straits album (last track aside). I live near the places he's singing about on Tunnel Of Love.

To be fair, they might be everywhere in Lancashire - they don't get much play up here in Newcastle these days.

Bob Marley. Shamefully, I've never delved beyond Legend before this week, but now I've dived in to all of it. Early standout is Burnin', Small Axe in particular.

The Blastomas is my new punk band name.

Love that Spiritualized track!

Well, the UK has had 7 years of Tory cuts to infrastructure type stuff, so …

I'm not saying part of me isn't enjoying it.

Outlining the first few chapters of a novel that I'll hopefully start soon, after having next week away from it all.

Fuck Parliament going on their summer recess with everything - Brexit, the future of this falling-apart government - tipping over into chaos.

Prince, Lovesexy.

A couple of weeks off from teaching.

The Long Ryders - Mason-Dixon Line
Leadbelly - Roberta
Tom Waits - Nobody
Bob Dylan - Spirit On The Water
Lou Reed - Dirty Blvd.

I read somewhere that Dickens didn't like her much, either. Maybe because he knew her skewer was silkier than his and he resented that. Not that his own more bludgeoning skewer wasn't just as effective. Can a skewer bludgeon?

I read it a couple of years ago, and was surprised by how modern the humour is.

I can't wait for vol. 2 of Lewisohn's Beatles history. Vol. 1 is easily the best book I've read on them.

Currently on Nixonland by Rick Perlstein, as detailed yesterday - and boy, is there a lot of detail. Good, though.