In which we salute the great ‘60s pop writer and Beatles associate Maureen Cleave, find a copy of Melody Maker from the week Hunky Dory was released (the Rainbow opens, Lindisfarne banned from Brighton Dome after fans dance in aisles! etc), talk to Chris Topham of the Plane Groovy label about the vinyl crisis (there’s a seven-month wait to get a record pressed), check the map of the biggest-selling music acts from each UK county and get to the root of the old Sounds headline “My naked bath-nights with Olivia Newton-John”.

Chris Topham’s Plane Groovy Records …

Maureen Cleave’s famous ‘How Does A Beatle Live?’ piece …

http://headsup.freeshell.org/beatles-articles/standard.html

Map of the biggest-selling music acts from each UK county …

https://brilliantmaps.com/best-selling-england/

Word In Your Ear live in London on November 22: https://john-ilsley-more-tba.eventbrite.co.uk

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Inscrutable album covers and Hunky Dory’s 50th birthday