‘Long Black Veil’ is an American folk ballad that dates from 1959, written by Marijohn Wilkin and Danny Dill, that tells the sad story of a ...

The life of Cat Stevens was forever changed in the autumn of 1975 when, by his reckoning, he was saved from drowning by the Almighty. Swimmi...

Just Backdated is off on his holidays, taking with him Cat/Yusuf’s autobiography which will be read by the pool alongside the house of frien...

This is the book that no established rock or pop star will want in their Christmas stocking. With very few exceptions, everyone who has enjo...

“If you’re in a room, as I was at Live 8, with David, Nick, Rick and Roger Waters, nobody speaks,” says Polly Samson, wife of David Gilmour ...

Every great story needs a great villain, and in The Elvis Presley Story the villain has always been Colonel Tom Parker, his manager. Just lo...

September 18, 1971, a Saturday, was a lovely autumn day, perfect in every way. At lunchtime in Kennington, just south of the River Thames, t...

Continuing in Everly Brothers mode, it just so happens that in the third week of June, 1970, my first week as a staff writer on Melody Maker...

A picture speaks a thousand words. They are not smiling. Phil, on the left, looks apprehensive, his eyes focused on something in the distanc...

Like Alice Cooper and, to a lesser extent, Elton John, there was something slightly preposterous about the Ozzy Osbourne that I encountered ...