27 Tuesday Dec 2016
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Another musical crush from my giddy youth was lost on Christmas Day with the news that George Michael had passed away. Continue reading
22 Thursday Dec 2016
Posted in Amy Winehouse, Books, Brighton, Film, History, Lana Del Rey, Music, Non-Fiction, Politics, Witchcraft, Writing
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A Year in Books, Amy Winehouse, Another Day in the Death of America, BFI Stars, Blondie, British Witches of Sussex, Elena Ferrante, F.A. Mannan, Frances Farmer, Frantumaglia, Gary Younge, I'm Not In the Band, Jean Rhys, Journalism, Julie Christie, Lana Del Rey, Letters, Lyndsy Spence, Margaret Lockwood, Melanie Bell, Natalie Wood, Nathalie Leger, Peter Shelley, Rebecca Sullivan, Suite For Barbara Loden, Sylvia Patterson
British journalist Gary Younge has a sharp eye for how political events impact on ordinary lives. While living in Chicago, he investigated the stories behind the blunt statistics of ten children and teenagers shot dead in a single day. Never intrusive, but quietly devastating, Another Day in the Death of America illuminates with rare power. Continue reading
19 Monday Dec 2016
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A Year in Music, Blackstar, Coldcut, David Bowie, Hope Sandoval, Ladies and Gentlemen...The Bangles!, Leonard Cohen, Massive Attack, Only Heaven, Prince, Roots Manuva, Roses Gabor, The Bangles, The Spoils, Tricky, Until the Hunter
2016 has been a year marked by loss: David Bowie, Prince and Leonard Cohen, to name but three giants who have left the stage. Bowie’s final album, Blackstar, spoke directly to our troubled times. Continue reading
12 Saturday Nov 2016
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Chelsea Hotel No. 2, Lana Del Rey, Leonard Cohen, McCabe and Mrs Miller, Sisters of Mercy, Winter Lady
I first heard his music while watching Robert Altman’s anti-Western, McCabe and Mrs Miller, in Camden during the late eighties. That cinema is now long-gone, but the film – made not long before I was born – left a lasting impression. Continue reading
11 Thursday Aug 2016
Posted in Madonna, Music, Periodicals
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“Most people are born dead/But I was born alive,” Prince Rogers Nelson sang on one of his final cuts, ‘Way Back Home.’ In Art Decades: Volume 8 I pay tribute to Prince and explore his volatile relationship with fellow pop icon Madonna. Continue reading
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