In this final ever edition, there’s the return of some pop titans, a stomping electro whopper and existential musing on what ‘Vengabus’ actually means
It has been out two weeks but after 40 years what’s a fortnight between friends? Song of the week and, as this is the final Guide and these reviews will spin through all eternity with the top spot never being reclaimed, song of the year, song of the millennium and song of our lifetime. In short, it’s the greatest band that ever existed returning after the lengthiest absence in pop history, sounding exactly like themselves, on a song of such a high standard it’d fit right in on Abba Gold, the longest-charting album in
UK history. The closest we’ll ever get to a true pop miracle; evidence, too, that sometimes goodbye is just bye-for-now. Even if you have to wait four decades.