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Rare, and always on the move: Halley and Billie
From celestial to historical, the fictional to the emotional, while rarities are exactly as described, there’s a huge variety, and many songs about them. Picking from last week’s huge range of nominations, guest Marco den Ouden makes heavenly choices
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… made glorious summer by this song of York, canvassing for business …
Step right up! This week we look into the psychology of selling and the heartbeat of bargains across our culture. Retail therapy to ripoff, suggest lyrics all about the intimacy and anonymity of commercial transaction
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Let's have a big hand for ... James and Luciano
Walk this way! From James Brown to Bob Dylan, Baaba Maal to the Bunnymen, this world would mean nothing without some fabulous collaborations, this week chosen by our guest writer Flatfrog
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Saint or sinner? A singer from this week's A-list bows in martyr mode ... Photograph: Amy Jett
St Louis to St Vitus, Malcolm X to Bauhaus's Stigmata Martyr, this week's playlists selected by Song Bar's regular TatankaYotanka from last week's topic come with a particularly poetic air
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