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Bill Wyman

@hitsville.bsky.social
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"You think I'd be working in a place like this if I could afford a real snake?" / Feuilletonist / Former arts & media editor of Salon and NPR / Words for New York, Slate, sometimes the Times, other places. not text, but texture

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Bill Wyman @hitsville.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
Just noticed Hardly Strictly Bluegrass is streaming live. Gillian Welch is on now on one stage... hardlystrictlybluegrass.vhx.tv/hardly-stric... With an all-star tribute to Joe Ely up next....
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Banjo 2026 - Hardly Strictly Bluegrass TV
Banjo Stage SATURDAY, OCTOBER 3 ‐ 11:00am‐7:00pm We’re thrilled to welcome you back to the park for Hardly Strictly Bluegrass in Golden Gate Park.
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Bill Wyman @hitsville.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
OMG — when I founded Sound Opinions with @jimderogatis.bsky.social so many years ago, could never have imagined I'd be a real live guest. He and @gregkot.bsky.social were kind and generous interviewers, talking about my book, "Bill Wyman's Rock & Roll Lists." Check it out — link below!
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Bill Wyman @hitsville.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Woo hoo!
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Bill Wyman @hitsville.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
This looks super interesting, and it's a great review as well. It's been sad to watch funding cuts under both Democratic and Republican governors hollow the place out. We can quibble about the validity of the rankings .. but what was once a top five school now struggles to scrape the top twenty.
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Bill Wyman @hitsville.bsky.social · 12/09/2026
And I was touched by this review of the book by David Lewis on Substack: dlewis.substack.com/p/bill-wyman...
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Bill Wyman @hitsville.bsky.social · 12/09/2026
My new book of lists is now available in paperback! Check it out, and let me know if you like it. www.amazon.com/dp/B0H86SJ83...?
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Bill Wyman's Lists: Every Song by The Beatles, Michael Jackson, Led Zeppelin, Nirvana, Pink Floyd, The Eagles, The Clash and Every Artist in the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame — Ranked from Worst to Be
Bill Wyman's Lists: Every Song by The Beatles, Michael Jackson, Led Zeppelin, Nirvana, Pink Floyd, The Eagles, The Clash and Every Artist in the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame — Ranked from Worst to Be - Kindle edition by Wyman, Bill. Download it once and read it on your Kindle device, PC, phones or tablets. Use features like bookmarks, note taking and highlighting while reading Bill Wyman's Lists: Every Song by The Beatles, Michael Jackson, Led Zeppelin, Nirvana, Pink Floyd, The Eagles, The Clash and Every Artist in the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame — Ranked from Worst to Be.
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Bill Wyman @hitsville.bsky.social · 06/09/2026
OK I found both of them. Here's the first one. @danmitchell.bsky.social
An item from a Chicago Reader column in 1994:

Bad Sports
A Quincy goes out to Rick Telander, a Chicago-based Sports Illustrated senior writer and a regular on the cable sports-talk show The Sportswriters. The award, its name derived from the famed punk-rock episode of the Jack Klugman TV series (“Why do people listen to music that makes them want to hate, when they can listen to music that makes them want to love?”), goes to people who say stupid things about rock ‘n’ roll. Telander contributed the unctuously written, awkwardly titled story “Sport no nirvana, but structure can be life-saver” to last Sunday’s Trib sports section. The splashily played article’s thesis was that if Kurt Cobain had been involved in sports, the natural bonding mechanisms of the game might have saved him. “There is something about sport that I feel could have helped fill a void in the Seattle grunge king’s life,” wrote Telander. “Cobain was a sensitive, small, and troubled youth, and his parents could not, or would not, give him guidance. And he had no team. And he had no coach.” Hitsville avoids reading sports sections as a matter of course: is this sort of analysis typical? Organized sports consists almost entirely of suit-and-tied strategists telling the players what to do every other second; rock ‘n’ roll is basically a forum for artists to express themselves. Even with this difference, however, there are in rock ‘n’ roll what Telander calls, with unbearable condescension, “authority figures.” Cobain, for example, had a powerful management company (Gold Mountain) and label (Geffen) behind him–and he repeatedly went out of his way to thank them publicly for their help, though it was fairly uncool from the indie perspective to do so. The second problem with Telander’s argument is that Cobain had an instinctive and thorough loathing of male rituals in general and of sweaty, macho corporate sport in particular. “Rock and sports,” writes the addlepated Telander, “are like restive siblings,…
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Bill Wyman @hitsville.bsky.social · 05/09/2026
OMG @danmitchell.bsky.social, I totally forgot about that but I swear it was one of the funniest things ever. went on for weeks.
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Bill Wyman @hitsville.bsky.social · 04/09/2026
@jackshafer.bsky.social on Roy Cohn: "Cohn's story connects the nightmare of the McCarthy era to the farcical current regime, reminding us that Cohnism is not an annual but a perennial ... a ...dark mirror, forever inviting us to join him on the other side." www.bloomberg.com/news/article...
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Why America Can’t Stop Telling the Roy Cohn Story
The notorious lawyer died four decades ago, but a new book reminds us his ruthless approach to power and politics is still very much alive.
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Bill Wyman @hitsville.bsky.social · 20/08/2026
What's your favorite Bible verse? Wrong answers only.
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Bill Wyman @hitsville.bsky.social · 10/08/2026
For Nikki Finke fans only!
Industry newsletter LA Material reports that someone is shopping a Hollywood tell-all by the late Deadline founder Nikke Finke, called HUBRIS. Page Six says the book is reportedly edited by Finke’s one-time colleague and former LA Times staff writer, Diane Haithman. The person shopping the book is said to be a "longtime friend" of Finke’s named Connie Su, but a former lawyer for Finke stated to Page Six that he was "unaware that she had an estate, or who the executors might be."

Simon & Schuster previously held the rights to a book by Finke, with Jonathan Karp editing. But the book was delayed by disputes with Finke’s boss Jay Penske, who had acquired Deadline, and did not want her to publish a book, and by late 2014 she was said to have withdrawn the manuscript.
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MyNameIsTrue @alisontrue.bsky.social · 05/08/2026
Speaking of music writing, listicles can be fun! Like Bill’s collection of provocative @vulture.com and @nymag.com stuff.
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Harebrained @harebrained.bsky.social · 03/08/2026
I redesigned this shirt after it occurred to me that people might not want the words “Dave Matthews Band” really big on their chest. Show your love for Chicago tour boats with this shirt, available now, and expertly printed by Exploding House ! #chicago
Green shirt with the text “Chicago Boat Tours” printed across the top. In the background is a bus on a bridge. In the foreground is a beautiful tour boat and it’s covered in a brown liquify substance.
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Mark Jacob @markjacob.bsky.social · 02/08/2026
This New York Times article, which ran a week before Christmas last year, didn’t get the attention it deserved. It detailed Trump and Epstein's predatory behavior toward women – “a game of ego and dominance” in which “female bodies were currency.” Here’s a gift link and a thread. 1/6🧵
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‘Don’s Best Friend’: How Epstein and Trump Bonded Over the Pursuit of Women (Gift Article)
The president has tried to minimize their friendship, but documents and interviews reveal an intense and complicated relationship. Chasing women was a game of ego and dominance. Female bodies were cur...
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Mark Athitakis @mathitak.bsky.social · 31/07/2026
My pal and once-upon-a-time editor @hitsville.bsky.social has compiled the epic, career-spanning, opinionated lists of songs by the Beatles, Stones, Zep, Floyd, etc. into an e-book. Essential for classic-rock nerds and fans of smart criticism. www.amazon.com/dp/B0H86SJ83...
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Bill Wyman's Lists: Every Song by The Beatles, Michael Jackson, Led Zeppelin, Nirvana, Pink Floyd, The Eagles, The Clash and Every Artist in the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame — Ranked from Worst to Be - Ki...
Bill Wyman's Lists: Every Song by The Beatles, Michael Jackson, Led Zeppelin, Nirvana, Pink Floyd, The Eagles, The Clash and Every Artist in the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame — Ranked from Worst to Be - Ki...
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Bill Wyman @hitsville.bsky.social · 30/07/2026
Self-promotional post, I'm sorry. I collected those crazy lists I do for New York magazine and Vulture into a book! Such a fun process, and now it's available on Amazon, the Apple Store, you name it. If you like my stuff would you mind sharing this?
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Bill Wyman @hitsville.bsky.social · 24/07/2026
Share a magazine cover you love.
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Bill Wyman @hitsville.bsky.social · 20/07/2026
The Odyssey grossed $124M opening weekend. Definitely not a flop. But: Spider-man, in 2002, grossed $114M its opening weekend.
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WIRED @wired.com · 17/07/2026
Yesterday, WIRED learned that Madison Square Garden was suing us for our accurate reporting. We stand by our work. That’s why we’re removing the paywall from two of the MSG stories they don’t want you to read, making them free for everyone.
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Dan of the Year @downwithdan.bsky.social · 17/07/2026
Dang they really got a category for everything
THR
The Hollywood Reporter *
@THR
Louis C.K. Wins Grammy for First Special Since Sexual Misconduct Allegations
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Bill Wyman @hitsville.bsky.social · 14/07/2026
Sitting in a hospital outpatient waiting room wondering how Dr. Robby is doing.
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Malaclypse the Middle @malaclypse.bsky.social · 08/07/2026
Unironically, America needs a Honey Huan:
Doonesbury from 1970s where mao's translator ignores his more insane pronouncements.
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Bill Wyman @hitsville.bsky.social · 06/07/2026
@matthewwilkening.bsky.social Hey Michael — mind dropping me a line at billwyman at gmail? I wanted to send you something.
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Bill Wyman @hitsville.bsky.social · 02/07/2026
Without downloading any new pics, what’s it like being in a relationship with you:
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Bill Wyman @hitsville.bsky.social · 18/06/2026
So NYC Mayor Mamdani's speech at the Knick's parade today is really something. There's a term in rhetoric, accumulatio, for the technique he uses throughout to pile up examples. www.youtube.com/watch?v=Zdmn...
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Mamdani gives speech at Knicks championship ceremony at City Hall
YouTube video by Eyewitness News ABC7NY
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Bill Wyman @hitsville.bsky.social · 05/06/2026
One of those screenshots that will be good for something some day.
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Bill Wyman @hitsville.bsky.social · 02/06/2026
hear hear.
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Bill Wyman @hitsville.bsky.social · 31/05/2026
@jackshafer.bsky.social
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Bill Wyman @hitsville.bsky.social · 31/05/2026
With Milli Vanilli unaccountably back in the news, I just noticed that surviving member Fab Morvan was — get this — +nominated for a Grammy this year for his audiobook+. What could potentially have been a signal moment in awards show history was scotched when the Dalai Lama won in that category.
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Bill Wyman @hitsville.bsky.social · 31/05/2026
#Caturday
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Musicology Duck @musicologyduck.bsky.social · 26/05/2026
hey @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social -- bridge renaming favor to ask
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Spike Feeder Alex @alex.spikefeeders.com · 22/05/2026
Tag yourself. I'm "Do not spin"
A variety of random label stickers including Bland, Sour Cream, and Senior Pet
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Bill Wyman @hitsville.bsky.social · 25/05/2026
Love this Walter Matthau joke from an old Lillian Ross story in the New Yorker ...
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Bill Wyman @hitsville.bsky.social · 22/05/2026
This is a scorching account of prosecutorial misconduct.
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Bill Wyman @hitsville.bsky.social · 22/05/2026
Anyone out there have Paramount+? I have it and, while it seems odd, but I can't find Colbert. Am I missing something or is it not there?
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Bill Wyman @hitsville.bsky.social · 22/05/2026
Meanwhile, at whitehouse.gov...
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January 6: A Date Which Will Live in Infamy
Discover the real January 6 story: peaceful protest turned tragedy, Deep State entrapment, media deception, and President Trump's triumphant pardons restoring justice to patriotic Americans.
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Bill Wyman @hitsville.bsky.social · 17/05/2026
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Bill Wyman @hitsville.bsky.social · 15/05/2026
fyi @missgina.bsky.social
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Bill Wyman @hitsville.bsky.social · 14/05/2026
This is very funny!
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Bill Wyman @hitsville.bsky.social · 09/05/2026
Amazing.
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Alistair Coleman @alistaircoleman.bsky.social · 08/05/2026
And then on to test drive his new ship. “Now to take this barky out for a run - hey, why are you all wearing life jackets?” “Oh, no reason”
Kim Jong Un in the helmsman’s seat on a naval ship.
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Bill Wyman @hitsville.bsky.social · 07/05/2026
Worthwhile Canadian Initiative. www.nytimes.com/2026/05/06/o...
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Opinion | French Literature Is in an Uproar
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Bill Wyman @hitsville.bsky.social · 29/04/2026
The Blueberry Pneumonias. (Punkrock band that does bubblegum covers.)
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Stone Cold Jane Austen @abbyhiggs.bsky.social · 28/04/2026
All it takes is a good guy with a ballroom to stop a bad guy with a ballroom
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Bill Wyman @hitsville.bsky.social · 26/04/2026
1) Give this little relationships essay a read. 2) Google the writer. www.vogue.com/article/my-b...
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My Boyfriend Is Double My Age
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Bill Wyman @hitsville.bsky.social · 24/04/2026
This is very funny.
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TyTheFilmAddict @tythefilmaddict.bsky.social · 23/04/2026
There should be a legal amount of time that you’re allowed to record and take pictures with your phone at a concert before I’m legally allowed to slap it out of your hand.
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Bill Wyman @hitsville.bsky.social · 19/04/2026
"actually"
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Lady Emily ☄️ @ladyemily.nebula.tv · 15/04/2026
One of those headlines that just gets hilariously worse as you read it
Article from The Wrap. Headline that reads: 


Inside Doug Liman's $70
Million Al-Made Movie
Starring Casey Affleck and Gal Gadot

"Bitcoin: Killing Satoshi" will be looking for buyers at Cannes and is billed as the first fully-generated, studio-quality Al feature film
Emily Zemler
April 15, 2026 @ 6:00 AM
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