In the crosshairs this week …

Sampha, Skepta? Mercury Prize winner or Italian sports-shoe brand?

Was Revolver really the Beatles’ most “consequential” album?

James Corden v Balthazar: fame in the age of social media.

Liz Truss, Steven Gerrard, Bruce Springsteen and knowing “what it’s like to have failed with the whole world looking on”.

Danny Baker’s selling 12,000 records: unsettling life-stage moments when you put your foot on the ball and look around the pitch.

The joy of old books and finding pencil marks in the margin by other readers.

Noel Coward in ‘In Which We Serve’ and were the Mountbattens “the orginal hot couple”?

… and Simon Sebag Montefiore’s brilliant 213-song playlist of songs to accompany his new book “The World: A Family History” …

https://open.spotify.com/playlist/0bXOS1k3hGKmfQCmbg21W4?si=CbdtROxeQie0rZyg_KA-SQ&nd=1

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