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The best bit in this episode was Lester Grimes playing the The Nasty Bits the history of rock and blues in three simple chords and connecting with Kip. These three chords that punk in the UK would later embrace as a reaction to progressive rock music.

Ritchie and the record company has money problems no doubt related to the money he screwed from his associates in Vegas and gambled away. He now has to make a deal with the mob to obtain money. The police are also on to him as his office was bugged.

Ritchie's estranged wife wants to kick-start her bohemian lifestyle in Chelsea but the kids throw a cat down a stairwell in order to see if it had nine lives. However the scenes at a nightclub where a pre fame Bob Marley was playing and Bruce Springsteen was hanging about amounted to little as I really did not care for the actor doing a bad John Lennon impression.

Both Zak and Ritchie might have discovered budding talent but they are now in deep with the mob and Ritchie has ended up in the police cell. I do not think Ritchie has hit rock bottom yet but although a musically strong episode I felt the narrative it is still a bit all over the place.