Kate Hudson’s place in rock’n’roll history is assured. As Penny Lane, No 1 groupie/groovy inspiration to the mediocre rockers Stillwater, she was the breakout star of Almost Famous, Cameron Crowe’s beloved movie about rock dreaming in the early Seventies. Penny Lane surely had a great album in her freedom-loving soul — something, you imagined, that might have sounded like Janis Joplin jamming with the Rolling Stones. All these years later and after hitting the Hollywood mainstream in romantic comedies such as How to Lose a Guy in 10 Days, Hudson has made her own musical debut.
She certainly hasn’t contravened the Trade Descriptions Act. This is, unquestionably, music: guitars chug along, drums keep a solid beat, backing vocalists get vaguely soulful. Alongside it
