Great feature on The Who on Newsnight tonight, featuring footage of their weekend gig at Leeds University, some telling interviews about their ongoing renaissance, and a clip of them rehearsing some new material, easily their best since QUADROPHENIA. It might get stuck up at the Newsnight mini-site: if not, tough, you missed it, but I've got it on the hard-disk of my Sky + box. Try clicking on the link in the title of the entry: should get you there for the rest of the week, anyway (thanks to Rab for pointing that out).
Oh, and Steve Coogan's new show SAXONDALE started tonight. Loved it: but then, the lead character is more up my alley than Partridge ever was - hirsute, well-read, smartarse, obsessed with the minutiae of the rock'n'roll life.
Which leads me to The Observer Music Monthly's feature on the fifty best books about rock: I'm as happy as a sandboy because my favourite made it to number seven, when it is usually forgotten entirely in similar lists by less august journals. Stanley Booth, unlike most music journos, writes like a dream: the review fails to mention his glorious beat style - like Kerouac, but with better taste in music.