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

June 22, 2026
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Random Jukebox: Pondering Patti LaBelle’s big-haired Bond theme If You Asked Me To

May 24, 2026

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

May 21, 2026

Age to the rhythm: Ladies and gentlemen, Miss Grace Jones (and why she’s younger than you think)

May 19, 2026

Perfect 10: Produced by Brian Eno

May 15, 2026

The day Frank Sinatra met Manic Street Preachers in Golders Green

May 14, 2026

Angel or Legend? Assessing Bob Marley

May 11, 2026

Happiness is a place called Richmond: my erstwhile neighbour David Attenborough at 100

May 8, 2026

May The Fourth Be With You: How Margaret Thatcher launched the Star Wars ‘holiday’

May 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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The murder of Stephen Lawrence 33 years on

April 22, 2026

You’re an actor too? That time I worked with David Tennant

April 18, 2026
Music

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
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Even better than the real thing: 11 Irish Icons that aren’t U2

Anyone who’s ever been to Ireland knows that music isn’t just part of their cultural heritage, but also an inescapable part of everyday life. Whether it’s the traditional live bands down the…
March 17, 2026
bySteve Pafford

Six degrees of separation: How often do you think of Fanny?

February 26 marks the anniversary of the birth of one of the most mocked, divisive and despised British celebrity cooks, Fanny Cradock. An extraordinarily unlikable creature who was the face…
February 26, 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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John Lydon at 70: “Have I mellowed? Absolutely fucking not!” – a classic interview revisited

With brand new Public Image Ltd. material on the way, and — gasp! — hopefully not aiming for Eurovision glory this time around, we celebrate the former Sex Pistol becoming rock‘s latest…
January 31, 2026
bySteve Pafford

The Moolah Of Suburbia: cashing in on Bowie’s Bromley house 

“See these tiles so green…” So, a full decade after his ascension to that great Stardust in the sky, it’s been announced that one of David Bowie’s childhood homes is to be turned into a…
January 10, 2026
bySteve Pafford
Events

These are the crimes: The time David Bowie sung John Lennon’s Imagine

I met John Lennon in Hong Kong in 1977. He was travelling with Sean, who was about two years old, and was on his way to meet Yoko in Japan. I was with David Bowie and Coco Schwab, on our way…
December 8, 2025
bySteve Pafford

June Whitfield at 100: Mum and Gran’s most Absolutely Fabulous one-liners, dear

June Whitfield, the nonagenarian national treasure who died at the tail-end of 2018, had one of the longest, most remarkable careers in the entertainment industry. In a world where the…
November 11, 2025
bySteve Pafford
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