Regular visitors to my Just Backdated blog will have noticed that these days many of my posts are reviews of music books, and as a result th...

Led by multimillionaires Sir Michael Philip Jagger and the now abstemious Keith Richards, The Rolling Stones are as solid a fixture in the B...

If a top of the range, precision engineered Rolex wristband could sing, play guitar, compose songs, had a sense rhythm and a spoonful of sou...

In a month when Paul McCartney releases his first new album since 2021, I have it on good authority that it’s not much fun being his manager...

Concert appearances by John following the dissolution of The Beatles can be counted on the fingers of one hand. George was first off the mar...

In September 1974 The Band rehearsed for a Wembley Stadium show at the farmhouse in Beaconsfield owned by Brinsley Schwarz who had lived the...

There was only ever one picture for the front cover of Bowie Odyssey 76 , the coolest mug shot ever taken, this one on 21 March in Rochester...

Still unable to resist the allure of a Who LP I hadn’t seen before, I gave in to temptation the other week and parted with £15 at a record f...

EVERYTHING YOU EVER WANTED TO KNOW  ABOUT HOW THE BOOK CAME ABOUT Of all the many hundreds of books I commissioned and edited for Omnibus Pr...

The music writer and PR Keith Altham, whose death aged 84 was announced yesterday, was a fixture in my life for over 50 years. He’d seen it ...