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Black celebration: dissecting Depeche Mode’s Violator

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One could almost call it an altar: ten things you didn’t know about Elizabeth Taylor

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Russell Crowe: Another one who’s ballooned

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

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John Lydon at 70: “Have I mellowed? Absolutely fucking not!” – a classic interview revisited

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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
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The Youth of Today: That time Neil Tennant interviewed Musical Youth in Smash Hits

Musical Youth were the British pop phenomenon of 1982: a group of five brummie lads inspired by New Edition and The Jackson 5 who were aged between 11 and 15 when ‘Pass The…
December 6, 2025
bySteve Pafford

Love is a stranger in an open car: locating Eurythmics in Little Venice

Released on 8 November 1982, Love Is A Stranger is very possibly my favourite Eurythmics single. Although its original chart position of 54 was a disappointment, the song benefitted from being…
November 8, 2025
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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Perfect 10: Simple Minds albums

Spawned in a Glasgow ghetto in 1977, Simple Minds nabbed their name from a line in Bowie’s The Jean Genie while shapeshifting from punk outrage (original unsubtle moniker: Johnny And The…
October 18, 2025
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Gatecrashing David Bowie in New York

September 26, 1995 This was Dame David of Bowie 30 long years ago, making a personal appearance at the grand opening of a new HMV record shop at New York’s Herald Square, just off Times…
September 25, 2025
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Duch of the terrace: Katharine Worsley, 22 February 1933 – 4 September 2025

“Duch of the terrace knows all her heritage Says she’s Henry’s kid Knows all her history in the family Needs a man, god forbid God forbid Says she’s an heiress, sits in her terrace Says she’s…
September 4, 2025
bySteve Pafford

I Am With Name: Bowie’s Hiroshima poster for the Montreux Jazz Festival

Marking the 80th anniversary of the big bad bomb that brought an end to World War II, I’ve dug out a magazine that I published back in the 1990s. It’ll end in chrome. Issued in September 1995,…
August 5, 2025
bySteve Pafford
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