"The Beatles gave us a continuing soundtrack of unparalleled charm and reassurance", Derek Taylor said. "As long as they kept on delivering fresh songs along with the morning milk, everything was right in our optimistic world". It happened again on Thursday. Is the old magic still there?

Also on the menu in this week's podcast...

... Fact or fiction? The extravagant adventures of Bill Drummond and why burning £1m still haunts the KLF.

... does it matter if musicians falsify their past? Paging Buffy St. Marie, Sixto Rodriguez, Seasick Steve...

... why calling the Beatles "the original boy band" is so ridiculous and wrong and how their story fires our desire to believe.

... how Lucinda Williams beat the autocue system.

... Crowded House, the strange tale of 'Woodface' and the track that kept them off American radio for two years.

... why Peter Jackson's 'Now And Then' video is like "fan fiction".

... Giles Martin's theories about producing music the way people remember it sounding (and why he was sacked by Martin Scorsese and then re-hired a few weeks later).

... and - in other piping hot news - the man behind 'Manuel and His Music of the Mountains' and the tax problems of the Singing Nun!

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