80 Words For Bryan Ferry
When David Bowie issued his penultimate Blackstar single in November 2015 I posted something online — alas, long lost to cyberspace — that commended the Dame as the “greatest songwriter after…
Thirty-Three Times A Lady: Kate Bush’s Never For Ever
On 8 September 1980, Kate Bush aficionados were rushing down to the record shops (remember them?) to get their grubby mitts on her brand new album. And buy they did, because when it shot…
A dandy and a scarecrow: Remembering Jon Pertwee
You don’t get the mix, he’d be 106. Born on the seventh of July 1919 in London’s Chelsea, John Devon Roland Pertwee carried three of my favourite programmes as a child growing up in 70s…
