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From London to Berlin: the Obscure Pet Shop Boys (p)review

July 5, 2026

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

July 4, 2026

Record Collector Presents… Stevie Wonder: out now 

July 3, 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

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

June 27, 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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Perfect 10: Talking ’bout Marilyn Monroe in song

June 1, 2026

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

May 19, 2026
Music

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
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Mick Ronson on the wall: Heaven and Hell in Hull

Remembering the chief Spider, Mick Ronson, who died 33 years ago In the last week of summer 2019, I found myself in the Humberside hellhole of Kingston upon Hull for the first and quite…
April 29, 2026
bySteve Pafford

Elizabeth Sladen: forever our Sarah Jane Smith

“Journos with egos? Ooooh, I don’t like ‘em!” — Magda in Absolutely Fabulous, 1994 She was fierce, formidable and occasionally fearless. For three years in the mid 1970s — during the…
April 19, 2026
bySteve Pafford
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Random Jukebox: Goldfrapp’s Human

Sometimes you just have to roll with the selections of the random jukebox, and today it put on its red shoes and picked Human, a delicious standout from Goldfrapp’s glacial debut album from…
July 31, 2024
bySteve Pafford
Random Jukebox

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

Formidable femmes: The 115 women who changed the world

It’s been a wee while since we marked International Women’s Daywith a new feature. As it’s the 115th anniversary of the earliest iteration of IWD—a sui generisFebruary 1909 event organised by…
March 7, 2026
bySteve Pafford
Events

100 words for Kenneth Williams

Historically, when it comes to Pisces peeps the water sign’s complex personality traits have given the world numerous notable names, and February 22 has been a date with more than its fair…
February 22, 2026
bySteve Pafford

Starman in Streatham: David McAlmont climbs the Wall To Wall Bowie

Six years ago, former Blitz kid and Animal Nightlife singer Andy Polaris checked out an annual celebration of David Bowie’s music at Streatham’s Hideaway wine-and-dine venue in south London. A…
January 25, 2026
bySteve Pafford
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