Fifty years ago this past weekend on the Isle of Wight a crowd variously estimated at between 600,000 and 700,000 were entertained by a 3...

(Picture by Barrie Wentzell) It would have been 46 years ago this week when I last had meaningful conversations with Rod Stewart and ...

Like free jazz, heavy metal and rap, the music of John Martyn is an acquired taste I somehow never acquired. He wasn’t within my orbit ...

  About three years ago I was commissioned to write sleeve notes for two upgraded CDs by a singer-songwriter originally signed to the D...

Here’s another old Who-related review of mine that I found in The Who Article Archive , this one from Melody Maker dated October 14, 1...

The Who Article Archive: 1964-1979 book that I wrote about in January contains at least once Melody Maker piece of mine that I’d comp...

A false start, a wonky note, then the right one and off we go with The Pretenders sounding pretty much like they always did, which is no ...

In the spring of 2010 I joined a queue of Ian McEwan fans in Hatchards bookshop on Piccadilly, my mission to obtain a personally signed c...

Every so often someone associated with a band reads my blog, figures out the kind of stuff I like and sends me some music in the hope tha...