October 1976: I’ve bunked off college early and I’m at the Victoria Palace Theatre to see Graham Parker & The Rumour. But what excites me more is the support band – The Damned.

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I’m so sad to hear about the death of Kevin Campbell, a title-winning mainstay of Arsenal’s attack in the late Eighties and early Nineties – and a hero on Merseyside after he moved to Everton.

When I first heard Domino on The Cramps’ landmark debut Gravest Hits EP, prompting the birth of psychobilly in 1979, I had no idea it was a Roy Orbison song.

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Is there a genre called jazz-dub? If there isn’t – or wasn’t – then I think it’s been invented on this tune. I can’t stop playing it.

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How different rock history might have been if Leaf Hound had formed a couple of years earlier. They might well have stolen Led Zeppelin’s thunder and become rock legends.

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While we’re dancing in the disco: here’s some infectious disco-adjacent jungle funk from Kofi Ayivor, who comes all the way from… (checks biog)… Amsterdam. But where is he *really* from, do I hear you ask?

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