Word Down Your Way

Blips on the rock and roll radar this week include     Things You No Longer See, No 97: the celebrity airport arrival shot. .. do we, in all honesty, need Roger Waters re-interpretation of the Dark Side Of The Moon for it is upon us

Pat PP Arnold was hired as an Ikette by Ike & Tinas Revue in 1965 and set off a 2,000 mile tour of America, coming to London a year later to support the Rolling Stones. Offered a record deal by Andrew Oldham, she lived in England for many years bec

As Mark Ellen had taken his shrimping net to the coast Alex Gold steps into the breach to talk to David Hepworth about.how solo acts like Bing Crosby and Bruce Springsteen get to play the common man in a way they never could if they were in a band.the e

In his new biography Nick Drake: The Life, Richard Morton Jack set out to correct the misconceptions spread by magazines and former biographies, some ending up on Wikipedia. This involved talking to as many people as he could track down whod met and re

Growing up in remote rural Norfolk, crime writer Cathi Unsworth had a Goth conversion, a condition from which, she happily admits, you never fully recover. And never want to. She discovered Dennis Wheatley’s ‘To The Devil A Daughter’, heard Siouxsie &

Filling the spinnaker of enquiry on the careering, two-mast schooner of rock and roll this week you will find   the prog drummer who made a fortune. ... did Brian Wilson bring a horse into a recording studio? Or write a symphony for drums? Or

This week we paddle the two-man kayak of curiosity across the rock and roll seafront and make a few stops on the way, among them   the future is always in the past.  the pure theatre of the E Street Band and its cast of characters our li

Sizzling hot topics patted back and forth across the ping-pong net of conversation this week include the republishing of Giles Smiths Lost In Music, one of the funniest books ever written about our real life relationship with pop stars, records and be

Aged 21 in 1963, Harvey Lisberg wanted to be the next Brian Epstein and ended up managing Hermans Hermits and 10cc, among others, before relaunching the snooker stars Jimmy White and Hurricane Higgins. We thoroughly recommend his just-published memoir I