In final song "The Only Moment We Were Alone", the melody of the harmonising guitars rises above the surging noise.
One is "trade facilitation" – the harmonising and standardising of customs rules and procedures that is an agenda of the global north to ease import practices across the world.
Parmalat is a reminder that Europe still has a long way to go towards the harmonising of either accounting or corporate-governance standards on best practice.
During instrumental passages – the harmonising guitar duel at the end of (Use It) If You Can Use It, for instance – he calmly wanders off to the wings to let his band take centre stage.
Cue banjos, bad jokes and the harmonising Johnson sisters played by Meryl Streep and Lily Tomlin, an interplay that is a musical equivalent of the cast's informal but adept combination.
The singing, particularly the harmonising, is always hugely enjoyable but the storytelling is sometimes less certain, although there is something rather satisfying about the way that the murderous husband is felled by a female stereotype – the singing siren who lures men to their deaths.
