Exclusive audio: Neil Tennant talks David Bowie, Michael Jackson and Take That
Three decades ago, on 25 April 1996 to be precise, I conducted my first official on the record interview with a pop star: Neil Tennant of the Pet Shop Boys. That weekday afternoon the PSB…
Random Jukebox: Pondering Patti LaBelle’s big-haired Bond theme If You Asked Me To
Sometimes you just have to roll with the randomness of the storied jukebox, and today it picked a James Bond theme. But this ain’t no ordinary Bond theme, this is one of the secondary songs…
Die young, stay pretty: the intimacy and iconography of James Dean
True to his “live fast, die young” philosophy, James Byron Dean, the archetypal angry Rebel Without A Cause, was born 95 years ago today, just 24 years before being obliterated at the wheel of…
