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‘Ah, TJs!’ says Bobby Gillespie, remembering his band Primal Scream playing at the legendary Newport music venue. 

Emily Mortimer’s The Pursuit of Love is bold, barmy and never boring Her adaptation of Nancy Mitfords novel features subtitles, freeze-frames and loud blasts of T Rex. Since I hardly know where to begin with Emily Mortimer’s adaptation of Nancy Mitford’s novel  The Pursuit of Love (9 May, 9pm), I might as well start with the moment when, bang in the middle of episode one, the hairs on my head (and everywhere else) stood suddenly to attention, and I found myself dancing ecstatically ...

4 Two of the very first CDs I owned, unless my increasingly moth-ridden memory is betraying me, were Erasure’s greatest hits album Pop! and the Pet Shop Boys’ Very, whose bright orange, Lego-like case I can still recall to this day. I ordered them in secret from a Columbia House catalog; their offer of what essentially amounted to free CDs before they made you pay up the nose for shit you didn’t want got me good. Remember that scam, where you started off by buying a handful of CDs for a...