Possible Clues:

• Conductor excluding writer with bad return
• Doll endlessly receiving one list from conductor
• Sir John --, English conductor
• He conducted counter revolution in British Isles
• Stop writer sending up sick conductor
• Conductor rail, say, with AC/DC current about to flow
• Close by
• Conductor's gibe, one repeated about drummer's performance?
• Conductor has to stop backing poor old violin section
• Sir John - - , English conductor of the Hallé Orchestra