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

June 4, 2026

Perfect 10: Talking ’bout Marilyn Monroe in song

June 1, 2026

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
Random Jukebox

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

May 12, 2025
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Mick Ronson on the wall: Heaven and Hell in Hull

April 29, 2026

100 words for Windsor 

April 21, 2026
Music

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

It’s like the song goes, “Red lips, dark hair,” and those violet eyes. Those incredible violet eyes. Elizabeth Taylor was one of film’s most celebrated figures whose name was synonymous with…
March 23, 2026
bySteve Pafford
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Licence to flop: The trouble with Timothy Dalton

The James Bond series is the most famous and longest-running film franchise of all time, with the 25 movies enthralling audiences with exotic locales, high octane action, and complex political…
March 21, 2026
bySteve Pafford

Russell Crowe: Another one who’s ballooned

This is not a joke. World Obesity Day is a thing. It exists. And since 2015 it’s been organised by the World Obesity Federation because, well, why not? If we the peoploids have to stand (or…
March 4, 2026
byjames Harris
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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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Twenty Years Ago Steve Pafford did Robbie Williams in the Rudebox review

You’ve heard the impossibly incongruous chart news from Blighty, right? Robbie Williams, 52, has overtaken The Beatles on the all-time leaderboard for most UK No. 1 albums ever with his 16th…
February 13, 2026
bySteve Pafford

Remembering Robert Palmer: Bryan Ferry on Johnny & Mary

Robert Palmer would have turned 77 t’other day. One of Britain‘s finest pop creators, this Yorkshireman did much to hide in plain sight behind the enduring image of a suave sophisticate with a…
January 22, 2026
bySteve Pafford
Events

That time Neil Tennant reviewed a Duran Duran gig in Smash Hits. Talk Talk bring up the rear

Date: 17 December 1981 Reviewed: Duran Duran & Talk Talk, Hammersmith Odeon, London, Planet Earth  Reviewer: Neil Tennant, Smash Hits, 7-20 January 1982 (very possibly…
December 17, 2025
bySteve Pafford

Perfect 10: Grace Jones’ Alternative Island Life

As the arrival of her much anticipated 11th album inches ever closer, celebrating 50 years of fierce and fearsome recordings, author Callum Pearce has selected a Perfect 10 of Grace Jones…
December 2, 2025
byCallum Pearce
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