Tom Waits: How's It Gonna End
I love Tom Waits. I love August Kleinzahler. I’ve always paired them, songwriter and poet, as artists of the America that lies, north and…
Thanks for stumbling upon my retirement project and labour of love, Here Comes The Song. Here you'll find the latest blogs from music fanatics about their favourite songs and the artists who wrote them. It really is about the music that moves us...
I love Tom Waits. I love August Kleinzahler. I’ve always paired them, songwriter and poet, as artists of the America that lies, north and…
When I Wanna Be Like You (I'm the king of the swingers) finishes in The Jungle Book one of King Louis’s henchmen/monkeys notices that Baloo…
Not content with being the world’s coolest rock star, David Bowie was also the world’s coolest dad – or at least that’s how it seemed to me…
Dan Penn once said he was always striving to write the best cheating song ever. There is stiff competition – Your Cheatin’ Heart and I Heard
When I first heard the low vocal tones of Amber Bain, aka The Japanese House, coming through my computer speakers, I clicked next. Spotify…
The lonely painter who ‘lived in a box of paints’ has turned full circle. Perhaps this is the carousel of time she referred to in The Circle
First, a confession: despite her glowing reputation as the pre-eminent singer-songwriter on the British folk scene, the musical allure of…
I trekked all the way to Walthamstow to see A Little Night Music. As usual when reviewing, I had done no research, preferring to see the…
In 1995 Bruce Springsteen released his understated masterpiece The Ghost of Tom Joad. Springsteen’s best works are his narrative songs and…
By 1979, The Beach Boys were really on their uppers. After more than a decade of darning Brian Wilson's musical socks they had simply run…
The first time I saw La La Land, I didn’t get the songs. Too busy with the beautiful visuals (by cinematographer Linus Sandgren) and the…
I joined the Van Morrison Appreciation Society late. I knew of him from the Belfast-based band Them and liked his raucous, blues-shouter…
We’ll skip the light fandango and cut to the chase. In my opinion Procol Harum’s magnum opus is not A Whiter Shade of Pale, which announced…
Prefab Sprout are a confoundedly strange band, seemingly out of time yet of their time (whatever that was – it isn't really a definable era)
Ronnie Lane had three distinct career phases: bass-playing mod turned psychedelic imp in the Small Faces, wine-swigging heartbeat of the…
No one covers Bob Dylan like the man himself, even though The Byrds, Jimi Hendrix and Richie Havens made a fair attempt. It has been the…
On a blisteringly hot Sunday in June 1937 a young man walked into the striking art deco office building that stands at 508 Park Building in…
More than half a century has passed since Walk Away Renée first entranced radio listeners and record buyers. Fifty-one years – and yet, as…
On 30 September 1978 Elvis Costello and the Attractions played in front of 150,000 people at the Anti-Nazi League carnival in Brockwell Park
A day after Donald Trump was sworn in as 45th president of the United States, millions of people gathered in cities around the globe, to…