We had to endure eighteen months of hype for this? My favorite review was in the “Wall Street Journal”: “It’s like a Mariah Carey movie about a Bruce Springsteen album.” On Metacritic it gets a whopping 60. On RottenTomatoes it did better, it got a 61! “Bohemian Rhapsody” was a fluke. That’s what’s great about filmed entertainment, […]

Peter Guralnick has written the definitive Elvis Presley books, “Last Train to Memphis” and “Careless Love.” His latest is about Elvis’s manager, “The Colonel and the King: Tom Parker, Elvis Presley and the Partnership that Rocked the World.”  Apple: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/peter-guralnick/id1316200737?i=1000733121871 https://music.amazon.com/podcasts/9ff4fb19-54d4-41ae-ae7a-8a6f8d3dafa8/episodes/40a99a83-89d4-4894-9e39-c02fb6dac5c1/the-bob-lefsetz-podcast-peter-guralnick

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Shirley Manson: https://www.facebook.com/reel/1814846209174938 Jack Antonoff: https://apple.news/AEBDDG5UqRASf8PpV38uQ2w This is the deal you make. You enter the arena, you try and become rich and famous, and if you succeed…you can trade on your name forever. Whereas, if you work in the industry…you’re time-stamped. Most people can’t stay in it, only a thin layer survive, the rest are […]