▪ DID rock star Bono watch too much Bridgerton in the pandemic?

‘He did write me an open letter, as one of, I think, 60 recipients during the lockdown,’ punk legend Iggy Pop reveals. ‘He put forth the proposition that there is a Regency in popular music — which I took to mean a royal clique.’ Bono beseeched Iggy, 75, to be more Prince William, less Prince Harry. ‘His impression about my stage-diving was that, as I hurled myself forward, I was throwing away my crown.’ His verdict on Bono’s plea can be found in the scathing track that closes his new album, which repeats: ‘F*** the Regency’.