Later she moved to Nashville and co-managed a certain Garth Brooks. As she explained to me: "I was lucky enough to work with two phenomena in my career, one was MTV, the other was Garth Brooks."

who told about setting up the channel and how important British acts like Bowie and Duran Duran were in convincing American producers that music videos were the next big thing. Crazy to think given the ubiquity of YouTube and TikTok today.

Spotify: open.spotify.com/album/7uIQRS...
Apple Music: music.apple.com/us/song/all-...
Amazon Music: amazon.co.uk/music/player...

If you're at all into anything digital or the history of our modern world from the perspective of one who invented one of our most ubiquitous technologies of modern times, go read it.

In the second half of the book there's a thoughtful and salient conversation about web security, personal data, AI and social media.

And it's all narrated by Stephen Fry who is the perfect voice for the audiobook.

Most everything I've done in my life wouldn't have happened without the web. It was great to hear the story of how it developed, the geek reminders of dialup, AOL, Yahoo, coding in HTML, CSS and using FTP.

Why does BST Hyde Park continue to assume people will pay such ridiculous prices for a single ticket? And in the middle of a cost of living crisis! Think I'll go and see four smaller gigs instead.

Then in the evening there was an arts and craft night, where my contribution was two watercolour and pencil sketches based on photos from my Nashville fieldwork. First a riverboat on the Cumberland passing through East Nashville and second an abstract sketch of the Ryman Auditorium.

And here's what I've been listening to, beautiful bell ringing from the cathedral 💛