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It’s Thursday night: Obscure Pet Shop Boys fourth night review

July 9, 2026
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Record Collector Presents… Stevie Wonder: out now 

July 3, 2026

Assessing the Girl Power of the Spice Girls — 90s nostalgia or a lasting legacy?

July 2, 2026

Say No Go: The surprise rehabilitation of Daryl Hall & John Oates (No Can Do)

July 2, 2026

Record Collector Presents… Blondie: out now

July 1, 2026

You can stop the music: The trouble with the Village People

June 30, 2026

More PMs than realities: why Britain is always going up the hill backwards

June 22, 2026

What did you expect to see out of a Torquay hotel bedroom window? Devon, perhaps?

June 4, 2026
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Random Jukebox: Duran Duran’s A View To A Kill + how they took over Bond from Bowie

May 12, 2025
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We shall overcome? Why Marvin Gaye’s What’s Going On is more relevant than ever

May 21, 2026

The day Frank Sinatra met Manic Street Preachers in Golders Green

May 14, 2026
Music

Exclusive audio: Neil Tennant talks David Bowie, Michael Jackson and Take That

Three decades ago, on 25 April 1996 to be precise, I conducted my first official on the record interview with a pop star: Neil Tennant of the Pet Shop Boys. That weekday afternoon the PSB…
April 25, 2026
bySteve Pafford
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The murder of Stephen Lawrence 33 years on

Lest we forget… It’s Stephen Lawrence Day in the ‘United‘ Kingdom. Which, in 2026, means that 33 years ago in its capital city an innocent young boy was savagely slain in a callous racially…
April 22, 2026
bySteve Pafford

It Was 11 Years Ago Today: Dusty Springfield’s Faithful found in the nick of time

When Dusty Springfield ditched her American contract with Phillips and signed to Atlantic Records in 1968, the bouffant diva was making a decisive change in her career. At the time, Atlantic…
April 7, 2026
bySteve Pafford
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Random Jukebox: Dinah Washington’s Mad About The Boy

One hundred years ago, jazz and blues singer Dinah Washington was born in Alabama. The Grammy-winning “Queen of the Jukeboxes” would leave this bitter earth behind at the tender age of 39,…
August 28, 2024
bySteve Pafford
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Black celebration: dissecting Depeche Mode’s Violator

It’s 1990, and the trajectory of synthpop had undergone many great changes, the main one being that it had kind of dissolved. As the Eighties mutated into the Nineties, the fashion of big,…
March 19, 2026
bySteve Pafford

45 at 45(ish): Adam Ant is The Human League’s Mirror Man

In a different post, I did a bit of a switchback Sunday rewind and revisited some of the first slabs of vinyl I bought that expressly weren’t by Adam and his army of Ants. Number…
February 28, 2026
bySteve Pafford
Events

Die young, stay pretty: the intimacy and iconography of James Dean

True to his “live fast, die young” philosophy, James Byron Dean, the archetypal angry Rebel Without A Cause, was born 95 years ago today, just 24 years before being obliterated at the wheel of…
February 8, 2026
bySteve Pafford

The Caped Crusader of camp: Holy Happy 60th, Batman!

One for the Bat-fam? Officially named 85 years ago (in the comic book pages of January 1941’s Batman #4, triv fans), the Bat-location of Gotham City was named after a village in the English…
January 15, 2026
bySteve Pafford
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