I will say that my comrade, the Doctor, did much to make it so, with his gentle fun, and his wide knowledge of earth-lore.

The bells tolled the King’s death.

★ LAURYN HILL, SEAN KINGSTON (Monday) Rock’s shaggy dog story is Guns N’ Roses’ endlessly postponed “Chinese Democracy”; in hip-hop-soul, the great postponer is Lauryn Hill, the former Fugee who has not made a proper studio album in nine years.

Well, you see, I was temporarily in command of the cruiser coming down the Baltic, and passing an island rock a few miles away, I thought it would be a good opportunity to test a new gun that had been put aboard when we left England.