One Saturday morning in the summer of 1975 I awoke in the one-room apartment on New York’s Westside of my friend Karen who worked ...

In 1965 Jonathan King had a hit with ‘Everyone’s Gone To The Moon’ which wasn’t bad, but thereafter he got cheesier and cheesier r...

The first pop star I ever met was Sandie Shaw, in Bradford in 1968 when I was a reporter on the city’s evening newspaper, the Tele...

In the first week of November 1973 I interviewed Peter Wolf, the singer with the J Geils Band, in his suite at the Continental Hyatt House i...

Last year a friend of mine visited New York and, at my prompting, kindly took the photograph below of the doorway to this building...

On Saturday, September 14, 1974, the first Beatlefest – a festival for Beatles fans – was held in New York at the Commodore Hotel....

Lisa and I were at the V&A for the launch of their sumptuous, thought-provoking and definitely unmissable David Bowie exhibiti...

On the subject of Gibsons, way back around 1985, when I lived in Hammersmith, I was walking along Chiswick High Road one day when ...

In late ’74, on the road with The Doobie Brothers, I woke up in a hotel in Kalamazoo, Michigan, where the Gibs...

I was on my own in NY for Christmas Day ’75 and spent most of the day in bed recovering from a seriously late party the night befo...