One of those situations where even Town Called Malice, though overplayed, would have been fitting. R2 keep doing this when musicians die, they have a terrible habit of just reaching for the first thing they can think of, regardless of whether it's even relevant.
And I think the problem is, once you have your music catalogue on computer, rather than actually getting the CDs or whatever, is that nobody bothers to check credits.
It's where an old-school producer would have been useful. Someone who could have looked at the running order and said "Hang on, that one hardly has any drums". Like the subs desk on newspapers. Founts of pedantry and general knowledge. A pub quiz team of old school subs would be invincible.
To be fair, I get it. It’s wrong, technically, but they’re not going to play the isolated drum track of Just Who Is The Five O’Clock Hero and then sombrely back-announce it like a newsreader: ‘Rick Buckler, who died yesterday.’ Although, actually, that would be oddly fantastic.
That reminds of when the awful Liz Kershaw had Wilko Johnson in for an interview. 'Let's play your biggest hit, Milk and Alcohol'. 'Er, I'm not on that one, I had quit the band by then'. 'Oh well, it's already lined up and it's a good song, we'll play it anyway'.
I will chime in at this point and say that Gypie Mayo, who did play on M&A, and co-wrote it with the wonderful Nick Lowe, was a deeply lovely man whom I was fortunate to know a little bit.
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