Caught in the piercing super-trouper of perusal this week …
... the BRITS 2024, a howling embarrassment.
… Medieval Beatles! She Came In Through the Privy Window, Everybody’s Got Something To Hide Except Me And My Kestrel, Comely Rita, I’m Happy Just To Joust With You …
… the wisdom of Tony Hancock.
… The Last Dinner Party and other ‘art concepts’.
… the Pattie Boyd/George Harrison/Eric Clapton love triangle.
… the days when “forming a band was a conspiracy against the tedium of life”.
… is it all over for young blokes in pop music? And is being in a band still considered sexy?
… the oldest musicians still touring: if Willie Nelson’s still going at 90, won’t Ed Sheeran be on the road at 100?
… “these days hanging a guitar round your neck insinuates that you might be homeless”.
.. and a whole range of facts that make starting groups seem less attractive (the cost, the likely profit, the decreasing appeal of ‘abroad’, digital gangs, how big ticket prices soak up all the live circuit cash).
... plus new patrons piped aboard!
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The wit and charisma of Kate Bush by Graeme Thomson: going too far makes you what you are
For the love of Françoise Hardy, Ben Sidran and the TV comedy Twenty Twelve
Stewart Lee knows the rigours of ‘animal costume work’ and why great comedy is about shock
How Springsteen went “six deep”, fictional rock hacks and who’s more conservative than Liam Gallagher?
Jon Savage - Dusty’s wig, Bowie’s bombshell and how gay pop culture changed music
“Abba’s success is more about us than them”: Giles Smith looks back at a 50-year love affair
the Architect of Mod: how Peter Meaden restyled and launched the Who - by Steve Turner
Great album trilogies, suing Madonna and "the pantheon of psychedelic heaviosity"
The spectacular Dead & Co, songs performed backwards & happy birthday Diamond Dogs!
Why They Might Be Giants now perform an entire song backwards
Guy Chambers - writing with Robbie, a tangle with Bowie & half a bagel with Paul McCartney
Alan Edwards, pop PR – ‘Bowie was like King Arthur and the Spice Girls like the Pistols’
Rock’s image-makers, men on dancefloors and why bands can’t act like bands anymore
Paul Carrack has seen it all – beat, soul, prog, pub rock, pop & the perfect ‘slow burn’ career.
Nige Tassell was so obsessed with Dexys he’s tracked down all 24 ex-members
Why Nick Mason’s “cottage industry” band plays just early Pink Floyd
Let It Be revisited, the wisdom of Steve Albini and a woeful tale about Steve Marriott
The genius of Little Feat, the Man with the Twang & pop’s greatest scandal in the making
Steve Diggle of the Buzzcocks remembers the day “a terrible beauty was born”
Rock snobbery, the seven wives of Gregg Allman & the greatest solo on a pop record
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