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What do you call someone who hangs out with musicians?
A drummer.
Okay, drummers get stick (sic). John Lennon, when asked if Ringo was the best drummer in the world, said he wasn't even the best drummer in the Beatles (actually that is probably apocryphal). But drummers are important and even cool, and none cooler than Honey Lantree. This is 1964 and women are not drummers.
The song itself is a piece of classic pre-lapsarian sixties pop produced by legend Joe Meek. Go Honey (especially from 1.27).
If you had wandered in to Hyde Park in the summer of 1966 you might have seen a bunch of barely twenty somethings making a cheap promo film and launching a mod anthem. The mods (from 'modernist'), sharply dressed, riding their Lambrettas (mopeds), had evolved in London in the 50s, listening to jazz and blues and ska, but by the following decade were also listening to the likes of The Who.
The kids were alright.
Some pieces of music, especially classical music, are often familiar, but you can't name the composer...
Norwegian composer Edvard Grieg wrote this short piano piece in 1896 in memory of his and his wife Nina's recent 25th wedding anniversary celebration. It is played here by Alice Sara Ott.
And today sees the start of the BBC Proms, eight weeks of largely, but not exclusively, classical music from all eras in the Royal Albert Hall in London.