In the fullness of time (ie after I’ve finished reading the whole book) I will write a (probably very favourable) review of Planet Simpson. However, possibly in the style of Comic Book Guy, I have to Report Back straight away on a howler of an error in an otherwise well researched book (I was on the internet within minutes, registering my disgust etc).
Kurt Cobain’s performance of Smells Like Teen Spirit on Top of the Pops where he sang it really oddly (read “bad”) was as a result of TOTP at that time *forcing everyone* to sing live and Kurt wanted to mime because his throat was knackered, not the other way round, and thus he wasn’t striking a blow for “punk rock” against “the man”, he just had a bad throat and threw a strop…