Scene + Heard: What's going on around the country

MUSIC NEWS:  Popular music has lost one of its all-time greats, a man from Cleethorpes, Lincolnshire, who gave the rest of us white boys so much hope.

Rod Temperton (below) isn’t a household name, but among his incredible portfolio of songs were Michael Jackson’s ‘Thriller’, as well as the arguably better tunes, ‘Rock With You’ and ‘Off The Wall’. The latter title track, off Jackson’s 1979 breakthrough album, contains one of modern music’s great manifestoes. “So tonight, you gotta leave that nine-to-five upon the shelf, and just enjoy yourself; C’mon and groove, and let the madness in the music get to you; Life ain’t so bad at all, if you live it off the wall.” RIP.

Meanwhile, Oasis: Supersonic doesn’t get its full release until later in the month, but the documentary on the Gallagher brothers, Noel and Liam, and their group, pops up at some cinemas this weekend.