In which the piercing searchlight of conversational scrutiny points in the direction of …

… Christine McVie’s early adventures, our burning love for Chicken Shack’s ‘40 Blue Fingers’, her Sliding Doors moment in a Dickins & Jones window display, supporting the Shadows at the 2I’s coffee bar in ‘59, writing Songbird, the forgotten years of Kiln House and two film clips that point up Fleetwood Mac’s luckless mid-‘70s slog with the bank-breaking success to come.

… records you never connected with that suddenly make sense 50 years later.

… the deep-seated, underrated pleasure of ‘Electric Arguments’ by the Fireman (aka Youth and McCartney).

… what your InstaFest line-up reveals about your listening habits.

… and a rare mention of ‘Deed I Do’ by Blossom Dearie!

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