Apr 4 Billy Connolly: Everybody Knows That and the ballad years Shug Hanlan It is impossible to mistake the looks of genuine joy and affection on the faces of the various ‘celebrities’ assembled for...
Mar 29 The Beautiful South: I'll Sail This Ship Alone Tim Woods Record sales that topped 15 million. Eight top 10 studio albums, with two reaching No1 in the charts. Twenty-two singles that...
Mar 13 Nick Drake: Northern Sky and the short life of a brighter talent Ian Malin Fifty years ago, in the second week of March, an album that now has almost mythical status was released and hardly anyone...
Feb 25 Oasis: Round Are Way, six minutes of joyous, rollicking perfection Tim Woods There are people out there who don’t like Oasis. Plenty, in fact. Some find the constant bickering between the Gallagher...
Jan 31 1971 revisited: The Beach Boys and the majesty of Surf's Up Ian Malin Meet the New Year. But to paraphrase The Who it’s the same as the old one. This dark lockdown is worse really than anything in...
Jan 31 1971 revisited: Carole King and the beautiful legacy of Tapestry Rob Steen Hyde Park, July 3, 2016. For the first time, Carole King, one of the most successful songwriters of the 20th century, is about...
Jan 27 The Creation: Making Time and the sound of red with purple flashes Phil Shaw ‘Our songs crop up in strange places,’ said Eddie Phillips, lead guitarist with The Creation, who briefly rubbed shoulders with...
Jan 5 Bert Sommer: Jennifer's journey from oblivion to Woodstock folklore Sharon Watts in Beacon, New York The name Jennifer has ‘muse’ written all over it. Just ask Kurt Weill, Little Richard, Tommy Tutone,...
Dec 14, 2020 Man Without A Soul: Lucinda gives the Trump era a fiery send-off Ian Malin Don’t worry it will soon be over. For those of us still standing anyway. The year the music, and pretty much all entertainment,...
Dec 3, 2020 Bruce Springsteen & The E Street Band: Janey Needs A Shooter Chris Hewett Those of us who have spent the best part of 50 years surfing the mighty swells of Bruce Springsteen’s music – or, just...
