Fifty years ago this month saw the release of Stevie Wonder’s Songs In The Key Of Life , regarded by many, including myself, as the apex of ...

Such is my apathy towards the Rock’n’Roll Hall of Fame these days that this year, for the first time since 1992, I failed to vote for any of...

  On the night in the summer of 1975 when I encountered John Lennon by chance at Ashley’s Bar & Restaurant in New York we talked about r...

Georgia Rose Lucas, born in July 1977, this book’s author/ complier, is the daughter of Sandy Denny. Her father, Trevor Lucas, fearing that ...

It’s no surprise that Jim Lea waited until after the other three members of Slade had written memoirs – not that he’ll have bothered to read...

Dave Marsh, who has died aged 76, was amongst the first music writers I befriended in New York where I was posted in 1973 and spent the bett...

Vicki Wickham, whose death aged 87 was announced at the weekend, was everywhere that mattered in music during the sixties and seventies, her...

Further evidence that the popular music I wrote about in Melody Maker over 50 years ago transcends generations hit me with a pleasing splas...

Books about venues invariably dwell on the artists who have performed there, even though the reality is that they have spent a fraction of t...

Compact but packed with all you really need to know, Pub Rock by Pete Townshend and Thunderclap Newman biographer Mark Wilkerson is one of ...