Residents of Manchester! See if you can spot your parents (or yourselves) in the crowd when the Beatles played the ABC Ardwick in 1963. Note heavy security presence.

More early shiny Joni Andersen/Mitchell footage is now around on YouTube - this one's got a particularly nice tune with it.

Nick Lowe was picked out recently by someone on here as one of the few people to use the word 'cove' in an interview. Here he is at Lulworth Cove several years prior. Funny that.

Sex & the Single Girl. Helen Gurley Brown's was the place to be delivering pizza to on a Saturday night. (Girls - do take note of this excellent slenderising tip).

The Consolers. Spine-tingling 1:41 of gospel.

Clubbing tonight? You may be interested in some tips on the coolest moves as well as an indication of what to wear. Let us know if you pull.

Like half of the UK, it seemed, I went to New York last week. Wandered into the Hard Rock Cafe at Times Square one afternoon and found myself sitting below James Brown's gold satin suit, worn at the Apollo in 1964. It was strangely awesome to be eating a cheeseburger in it's proximity. The place used to be the Capitol Theatre. Recommended to all Word readers as a place to visit.

Here's James Brown showing us how to work off a large cheeseburger.