This Week in Music

This photograph, which shows a teenage John Lennon and taken on Liverpool’s Lime Street, was shown for the first time in 50 years. Showing Lennon with quiff and sizable lapels, it came to light after an anonymous collector who had bought it at an auction came forward. Photograph: BBC/PA Wire/PA

Ronnie Hazlehurst, the composer behind such theme tunes as Blankety Blank and Some Mothers Do ‘Ave ‘Em, died aged 79. He also acted as musical director for the Eurovision Song Contest for the years it was held in the UK. That includes 1977, when the unforgettable Austrian entrants Schmetterlinge (pictured here in full swing) performed Boom Boom Boomerang. Take the Name that Tune quiz in his honour, here. Photograph: Derek Cattani/Rex

Now, no one is denying that Jimmy Cliff’s You Can Get It If You Really Want is a fantastic song. But is it fantastic enough to survive being “borrowed” by the Tory party to chime out David Cameron’s speech at their party conference? Photograph: Pascal Guyout/AFP

The legal battle regarding Procol Harum’s 1967 hit A Whiter Shade of Pale re-entered courtrooms earlier this week. Lead singer Gary Brooker launched an appeal against an earlier ruling which awarded the band’s organist Matthew Fisher a 40% portion of the song’s royalties. Photograph: Jack Robinson/Getty

Radiohead caused a real hullabaloo when they announced their new album In Rainbows was going to be released on October 10 and that you could pay WHATEVER YOU WANT to download it. The news really kicked off a debate, although we imagine the Charlatans weren’t best pleased. They announced they too plan on giving away their next album for free just days earlier and no one took any notice. Photograph: website/PR

Later this month, 61-year-old iconoclast Neil Young is set to release Chrome Dreams ll, the sequel to his infamous 1977 Chrome Dreams album which was never released. He spoke to Burhan Wazir about choosing the road less travelled. Photograph: NY photo/PR

Swedish band the Hives made rocking an art in the early 2000s, then promptly disappeared. Leonie Cooper catches up with Howlin’ Pelle Almqvist and co to hear about life as Europe’s best-dressed garage-rock combo. Photograph: Sarah Lee/Guardian

This week saw the release of Anton Corbijn’s Control, the biopic based on the life and death of Joy Division singer Ian Curtis. The Guardian’s Peter Bradshaw wasn’t just impressed, he was five-star, Film of the Year impressed. Photograph: OMM/PR