Sleeve notes: John Prescott reveals his musical chops

Earlier this week, while conducting intensive research out of office hours (read: faffing about on Twitter), guardian.co.uk/music's Tim Jonze spotted a tweet from none other than Lord Prescott. John, as he's now known to Team Music, was praising a singer called Rumer , whose performance he'd watched on Later with Jools Holland. So Tim asked him to blog about why Rumer was so wonderful for guardian.co.uk/music, and do you know what? He did! "She sang only one song but it moved me," wrote Prezza , "right back to the 70s and the days of eight-track cartridges playing the likes of Karen Carpenter and Carole King." Most readers seemed pleasantly surprised to find that the piece was not just well-informed but also passionate and quite touching: "Is there any particular reason why John Prescott shouldn't be allowed to hold views on music the same as everybody else?" asked RichardRJ. "Seems to me that Prescott has a few interesting things to say here." Something tells us this might not be the last we hear of Prezza around these parts. Five things we've learned this week Why Dave Sitek loves landscape gardening What No Age's new album Everything in Between sounds like Why blogging is giving one musician a panic attack That Susan Boyle/Lou Reed cover version the world has been crying out for has been given the green light What an 11-piece folk band sound like when they record at Guardian HQ The return of Alan McGee! It's a little known fact that before he was eliciting groans and fury among our readership for such illuminating columns as "The twin talents of Kevin Shields and Charlotte Church" , Alan McGee plied his trade in the music industry. Back in 1983, McGee founded Creation Records, an act which helped spawn such albums as My Bloody Valentine's Loveless and Oasis's Definitely Maybe. Yes, that Alan McGee! The history of Creation has been well documented in books by Paolo Hewitt and David Kavanagh, but McGee felt compelled to commit the label's bacchanalian history to film because "neither of them got it". In typically trenchant style, McGee revealed his version of events and what to expect from the documentary Upside Down to Tim Jonze. And you can read all he has to say here . To get your musical updates in 140-char chunks, follow the Guardian Music Twitter