TV's greatest musical moment - and are we still allowed to laugh at hopeless old rock bands?

 Applying our patent ACME wheat/chaff separator to the rock and roll cornfield, this week’s podcast reaps the following harvest ….

… Stray, Budgie, Fat Mattress, Atomic Rooster … ropey bargain-bin fixtures reborn as costly and collectible vinyl classics.

… Neil Or No Neil: Let’s Impeach the President, The Lone Ranger And Tonto Fistfight in Heaven … spot the fake Shakey song title.

… what they did with the Beatles’ Twist And Shout in the opening sequence of True Detective 4.

… the curious tale of the last line in Casablanca plus Dooley ‘Sam’ Wilson and his off-screen piano double.  

… when the Dave Matthews Band tour bus tipped 800lbs of raw sewage onto a pleasure cruiser.

… why it’s hard to feel nostalgic about online magazines.  

… “deep-end record-shop-haunting bores” (like us).  

… the first three Robert Palmer albums and their old-school sleeves.

… life in the ‘70s without the NME: unimaginable.

… when Neil Young was sued for not sounding like Neil Young and John Fogerty for plagiarising his own material.

... and birthday guests Paul Knox and the biggest musical moments on TV, among them Magical Mystery Tour, John Martyn on Whistle Test, the Pistols on So It Goes ….

Is this the greatest musical moment on TV?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3pKpfs5EK_s

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