It became a thing in our house for a while that if I was playing a Jacques Brel CD it meant one of two things: 1. I was full to the...

I have been thinking about records where the band leader hands out instructions to the musicians. Here are a few of my favourites: John...

Back in the nineties, I heard a single on the BBC’s London radio station which made such an impression on me that I set out for a local...

I used to spend a lot of time in our family shed in the mid-sixties. At the age of six or seven, I had found something in there that...

It started out as an idle whim which surfaced during a long wander across the Somerset Levels. Could I build a Spotify playlist with a...

The White Cross was one of the premier pubs in Richmond, south-west London; an area not lacking in such top-notch boozers. I say ‘was’...

She’s a remarkable talent (get over it). Here are five of my favourite tunes from the Swiftatollah. In no particular order, but there are...

The pop lyric as unreconstructed sexist claptrap from the Dark Ages...

...so – at the age of seventeen – we got to hang out with a bunch of blokes we looked up to and a group of girls we just looked at.

...two nondescript blokes walked into the shed that night, but when the third came in after them, “I just couldn’t believe who it was.”

In the sixties, Frank Sinatra asked maverick singer, songwriter, and producer Lee Hazlewood for help.

McQueen constantly did what he could to distract attention so future audiences would look only at him...any bit of business possible

In common with all the best records it’s under three minutes long

Spike Milligan, Paul Jones, Razzle magazine, The Manfreds, Rod Stewart, and Susan George all appear in this positively glittering episode.

...a Voyage of Discovery With Whispering Bob Harris Friday May the 25th. Our journey begins at London’s Paddington Station. I’m on my way...