Links: Dee Dee Ramone, how to work Spotify, talking rubber, American Recordings.

• Dee Dee Ramone interviewed by Legs McNeil just after he left the Ramones.

• The Spotify playlists you need to get your song onto.

• Forgotten audio format: talking rubber.

• A nice writeup of why Johnny Cash’s American Recordings is not only a great album, but one that made a great impact.

“Bournemouth May ’85, about 90 of us on 2 coaches went to see Vicious Rumours, Condemned 84 amongst others in a pub hall. The gig was stopped after a sustained attack by about 400 or so local ‘soul boys’ it made the nationals, the Mirror ran the headline ‘Girls lead punk army on rampage’.”