Enchanted by her first album, The Lion And The Cobra , on 6 November, 1990, I bought last minutes tickets to see Sinéad O’Connor at the Roya...

It is unusual to begin a series at the fourth episode but that is what I’ve inadvertently done with Bowie Odyssey ’73 , the fourth in Simon ...

“Some things change, some stay the same,” sings Chrissie Hynde in ‘Hymn To Her’, a song on The Pretenders album Get Close  that seems to me ...

It is the summer of 1966 and Nick Drake is with friends in St Tropez, playing his guitar for passers-by late into the night. “He played beau...

This month sees the publication of a new edition of my book Deep Purple: The Illustrated Biography , first published in 1983. It has a new t...

Another trip to The Bloomsbury Theatre on Gordon Street to listen to eminent Beatles-scholar Mark Lewisohn, this time in the company of BBC ...

Around the middle of last year, through a friend of a friend, I was introduced by email to Loraine Burgon who asked me to help her with a bo...

Stonesmania never grabbed headlines like Beatlemania but it was just as intense, perhaps even more so as the Stones attracted almost as many...

Off we go again on another romp through the annals of Allan Jones, the music writer who never refused a drink yet somehow remained sober eno...

My otherwise dismal record in picking winners for induction into the Rock’n’Roll Hall of Fame can be upgraded slightly, for two out of the f...