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they were so much older then, they’re younger than that now: me ‘n’ rbp’s mark pringle reel in the years and riff on all that’s new this week in the world’s biggest library of music journalism – definitive interviews with legends of the last 60 years by the pop press’ greatest writers … and much much more. to 1978—‘roll with me henry’, johnny otis, chess records and working with rick hall in muscle shoals. your hosts in turn consider her impact on singers from janis joplin to adele and discuss the late rob partridge, royal trux and pioneeringly “out” glamster. jobriath. their attentions then turn to burl ives, marc bolan, willie nelson, portishead and the fugees. it was all david platt’s fault. the outrageous extra-time goal that put belgium out of the 1990 world cup was the or*asmic moment that made me want to play football again – and not just play it but follow it, fantasize about being good at it. alas, i was never much good at it: a functional and uncertain player who often found himself – a 30-year-old with a serviceable right football had never been a consuming obsession of mine. i’d followed rugby through the ’70s and ’80s. it’s true i stayed up late to suffer maradona’s goals against england in 1986. (after the imperious slalom of the second, i actually muttered the words “well, you just can’t argue with that,” as though i were commentating on the game.) but it wasn’t till the altogether lesser talents of “platty” put england through to the quarter finals that the fever got me. nominally, ever since a housemaster let the boarders stay up to watch the replay of the 1970 f.a. cup final at old trafford, i was a supporter of chelsea. i was a londoner, and london had beaten leeds to win the cup. in the morning i felt strangely triumphant. osgood’s diving header from charlie cooke’s cross lodged itself in my brain and replayed there all day. (osgood played at the first chelsea game i ever saw, when i sat behind the goal as the 13-year-old guest of photographer roger charity. years later i nearly got to interview