Among the strangest episodes in the strange saga of Syd Barrett was his unexpected, unexplained arrival at Abbey Road Studios while Pink Flo...

Fifty years ago this week, as Melody Maker ’s man in New York, I was at the Avery Fisher Hall to review a concert by Phil Ochs, whose LA apa...

In July of 1963 Peter Meaden returned to the UK from a sojourn in Spain to discover that his erstwhile friend and sometimes business partner...

As I wrote in my introduction to the Melody Maker singles reviews of mine that I posted a few days ago, it wasn’t often that this job fell ...

  I wasn’t often called upon to do the singles reviews for Melody Maker. It was   Chris Welch ’s job and he had an idiosyncratic style that ...

NDAs – non disclosure agreements – were invented during the 1980s to protect trade secrets, principally in the mushrooming tech industry, bu...

It’s a Saturday and the weather is friendly in St John’s Wood today which means that plenty of people are walking in the footsteps of The Be...

Only those who scrutinise  Mojo magazine rigorously would have spotted my name in issue 365, which had John Squire and Liam Gallagher on th...

The impact of The Who in their glory years continues to inspire books about the period of their long career when their contribution to the e...

Newspaper reporters have good memories, not least because they write things down. Still, I needed a bit of help while researching for my upc...