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Perfect 10: Trevor Horn beyond the 80s

September 21, 2026
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Neil Finn selects David Bowie’s Hunky Dory as one of his favourite albums

August 6, 2026

Put on the blue light: having a cryo facial at Purexpert

August 1, 2026

Record Collector Presents… Rolling Stones in the 70s: Some Girls and soul sisters, out now

July 22, 2026

Record Collector Presents… Rolling Stones in the 70s: Exile On Main St. at Nellcote, out now 

July 14, 2026

Turn around, Tyler: Bonnie’s Total Eclipse Of The Heart and one outrageously homoerotic video

July 11, 2026

Every night is Friday night: Obscure Pet Shop Boys fifth night review

July 10, 2026
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Random Jukebox: U2’s Miss Sarajevo, One New Year’s Day 

May 10, 2026

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

May 12, 2025
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Late on Tuesday evening: Obscure Pet Shop Boys second night review

July 7, 2026

Spawn In The USA: 250 reasons why I’m afraid of Americans

July 4, 2026
Music

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

It’s the ear worm that turned. If you want to divide the people in a room into lovers and haters, just put on the song that was released on my 27th birthday, no less: whaddya think about that?…
June 27, 2026
bySteve Pafford
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Perfect 10: Spice Girls

Thirty years ago five women intersected (somewhat) by happenstance and changed the face of popular music shortly thereafter. This isn’t shameless hyperbole, it’s a statement of fact. The…
June 26, 2026
byQuentin Harrison

Perfect 10: Talking ’bout Marilyn Monroe in song

Marilyn Monroe is one of those cultural icons who everyone feels entitled to appropriating in their own particular way. Whether it’s because they’ve read all about her and identify with her…
June 1, 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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Perfect 10: Produced by Brian Eno

Get me. I have a not especially nouvelle nor vague theory that the artists who enjoy the longest, most interesting careers are the avid collaborators – that it’s the art of collaboration; the…
May 15, 2026
bySteve Pafford

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

Who would have thought the election of Margaret Thatcher as Prime Minister in 1979 would be the genesis of a worldwide, annual celebration of all things Star Wars? Yet that’s exactly how May…
May 4, 2026
bySteve Pafford
Events

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

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

Well, allons-y and all that, because it just happens to be a certain Scotsman’s 55th birthday today. David John Tennant, or should I say né McDonald, was born on 18 April 1971 in…
April 18, 2026
bySteve Pafford
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