Charlie’s Good Tonight: The Authorised Biography of Charlie Watts by Paul Sexton (2022, Mudlark, 344 pp. paperback) Jump in… Ploughing his own Furrow I don’t usually read rock biographies. The people in the entertainment and music industry are rarely interesting to me. Learning about their indulgences or often chaotic lifestyles is more likely to detract… Continue reading Rock Steady
Tag: Music
Adoring the Deplorable
How did these flawed and indulged poets and chancers and dancers become like gods … ?
At the Crossroads…
Crossroads: In search of moments that changed music by Mark Radcliffe (2019 Cannongate Books) The Crossroads: where Robert Johnson bargained his soul for the Devil’s music; where Tony Iommi guillotined his fingers and was inspired by the gypsy jazz guitar legend Django Reinhardt; where Kurt Cobain’s girlfriend’s deodorant inspire the grunge anthem of the 1990s.… Continue reading At the Crossroads…
Fabulous Creations – Vanishing Worlds
Roger Lytollis, “PANIC AS MAN BURNS CRUMPETS”: The Vanishing World of the Local Journalist (Robinson 2021) David Hepworth, A Fabulous Creation: How the LP Saved Our Lives (Penguin, Random House 2019) I can remember the frisson of walking home from the record shop with Pink Floyd’s Dark Side of the Moon under one arm. There… Continue reading Fabulous Creations – Vanishing Worlds
Lucy in the Sky with Diamonds
What links this Ethiopian postage stamp, the Trojan War, Thomas the Tank Engine and Pink Floyd?
New Horizons – Old Harmonies
[Originally written for New Zenith, newsletter of the Vectis Astronomical Society, 3 January 2019] Early on New Year’s Day [2019], the New Horizons spacecraft successfully achieved its long anticipated flyby of Ultima Thule. At about 43 times the distance from the Earth to the Sun, this was the furthest encounter yet with an object in… Continue reading New Horizons – Old Harmonies