Asked by me in 1970 to name his favourite guitarist, Ritchie Blackmore didn’t hesitate. “Albert Lee,” he replied. Pressed further Ritchie, n...

Last Sunday The Who in their 2022 composition performed in Cincinnati, the US city where the burden of expectation is intensified by the eve...

Fifty years old this week, the double album Exile On Main Street is being rightly celebrated as the Rolling Stones’ greatest ever LP. The h...

Disappointingly but predictable in the light of my previous form, only one of my nominees to the Rock & Roll Hall Of Fame will be induct...

To Brighton for a Blondie concert and the realisation that what I’ve missed the most during the Covid-induced famine of live gigs is the fee...

Watching Fake News: A True History , an appropriately droll documentary presented by Private Eye editor Ian Hyslop on BBC4, the other night...

While I was posting those memoirs last week I failed to notice that Just Backdated had notched up 1,250,000 hits, another milestone which – ...

As is usual around this time of the year, I have received my ballot form for nominating those from a list of names that I wish to see induct...

Driving in my car yesterday a DJ on 6Music played Procol Harum's ‘Homburg’ as a ‘tribute’ but I didn’t know who for until this morning w...

Today’s Guardian lists ‘50 Gigs that Transformed Live Music Forever’. Here’s a few that they missed. The Beatles Litherland Town Hall, Liver...