Featuring exclusive clips of an increasingly intoxicated KEITH RICHARDS during a 2002 interview by Adam Sweeting, the latest Rock’s Backpages podcast could be described as a ROLLING STONES special if there weren’t so many other things being discussed. Lauding Keef, 75, as the band’s heart & soul and asking “how this man has made it to 75”, Mark Pringle (left) and myself then wax lyrical about the brilliant Performance.

Directed by the late Nicolas Roeg and Donald Cammell – with a Jack Nitzsche soundtrack I describe in the podcast as one of the “creepiest, weirdest, but most mesmerising” he’s ever heard – Performance sums up the transition from ’60s flower power to something altogether darker and spookier, with the Stones themselves at “the centre of a vortex of social change”.

Other topics under consideration include Elvis Presley, the Beastie Boys, Paul Weller, Fleetwood Mac, Ice Cube and Gary Barlow’s envy of of Robbie Williams…