Steve Pafford

The Moolah Of Suburbia: cashing in on Bowie’s Bromley house

“See these tiles so green…” So, a full decade after his ascension to that great Stardust in the sky, it’s been announced that one of David Bowie’s childhood homes is to be turned into a…

Bowie

January 10, 2026

bySteve Pafford

The Grand Illusion of David Bowie: David Currie book foreword by Steve Pafford

Bowie

January 8, 2026

The Frank that drank: when Pet Shop Boys did dinner with Sinatra

Before every performance on 1989’s Ultimate Event triple header tour with Sammy Davis Jr. and Liza Minnelli, the American icon born Francis Albert Sinatra in Hoboken NJ one hundred and ten…

December 12, 2025

bySteve Pafford

45 at 45(ish): Adam Ant is The Human League’s Mirror Man

Music

December 1, 2025

Perfect 10: Grace Jones’ Alternative Island Life

Music

November 21, 2025

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

Music

November 8, 2025

There ain’t nothing like a Dane: Appreciating Agnes Obel

October 28, 2025

Highlights

Perfect 10: Simple Minds albums

October 18, 2025

100 words for Thatcher

News

October 13, 2025

Pet Shop Boys’ Chris Lowe at 66: six of the best PSB tracks by ‘the other one’

Music

October 4, 2025

80 Words For Bryan Ferry

Music

September 26, 2025

Celebrate Bisexuality Day with Harry Styles and Boyfriends

Music

September 23, 2025

Thirty-Three Times A Lady: Kate Bush’s Never For Ever

Music

September 8, 2025

Perfect 10: Forever Autumn

Music

August 31, 2025

45 at 45: Devo get to Whip It good

Music

August 26, 2025

Random Jukebox

Random Jukebox: Garbage say The World Is Not Enough

August 25, 2025

Random Jukebox: Neneh Cherry’s Manchild

August 19, 2025

Random Jukebox: Jack White & Alicia Keys find Another Way To Die

July 8, 2025

Random Jukebox: Cyndi Lauper’s Into The Nightlife

June 21, 2025

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

May 12, 2025

Random Jukebox: The Belle Stars’ Sign Of The Times

April 30, 2025

Random Jukebox: Robert Wyatt’s Shipbuilding

January 27, 2025

Random Jukebox: Dinah Washington’s Mad About The Boy

August 28, 2024

Beau, Oui: The tale of the tabby tigress

To mark International Cat Day, I wanna tell you a story. The tale of a pretty kitten fur ball who waltzed into my garden five years go with her band of brothers. This is how I came to adopt…

News

August 8, 2025

bySteve Pafford

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

August 5, 2025

bySteve Pafford

Dame David’s gift of Sound + Vision: Bowie at the Bowl

August 4, 2025

45 at 45: David Bowie’s Ashes To Ashes

August 3, 2025

bySteve Pafford

I’ve just read that Aug 1 is designated Yorkshire Day. Is this why?

News

July 31, 2025

bySteve Pafford

The First Lady of Milton Keynes: There ain’t nothing like Dame Cleo Laine

Music

July 24, 2025

Brian May’s had his day: The trouble with Queen

Music

July 18, 2025

Celebrations on a dance floor: The time Neil Tennant interviewed Kool And The Gang in Smash Hits

Music

July 10, 2025

A dandy and a scarecrow: Remembering Jon Pertwee

Screen

July 6, 2025

Pulp friction: Neil, Nile, Numan and the pazzo of Glasto

July 1, 2025

Music

I want my LGBT: when the M&S ‘gay’ sandwich came out

Warning: this post to celebrate the conclusion of the Holy Month of Pride is hammier than a pig farm, but as always, there’s an underlying existential seriousness, so bite me. But I warn you…

News

June 29, 2025

bySteve Pafford

Trending Now

Three from Berlin: Sex (I’m A) on The Metro will Take My Breath Away

Beware the savage jaw, Terri’s just turned 64… “Of course, the record we’re best known for is Take My Breath Away, from Top Gun in 1986. Giorgio Moroder wrote and produced that track. He’d…

Music

June 25, 2025

bySteve Pafford

Perfect 10: The first songs of summer

Music

June 5, 2025

bySteve Pafford

Perfect 10: Talking Heads making sense

Music

June 5, 2025

bySteve Pafford

More ideas than realities: Doctor Who’s goodbye to Gatwa reviewed

June 1, 2025

bySteve Pafford

David Bowie’s DNA: Spaceboy Keeps Swinging

THE MAN WHO SOLD US THE WORLD, MADONNA & LADY GAGA David Bowie was the bisexual alien rock star who sold genderfuck to the world. He’s also claimed to be the first pop star to…

May 31, 2025

bySteve Pafford

33 at 45: Roxy Music’s Flesh + Blood

Music

May 25, 2025

bySteve Pafford

Thank you, Yentob: Al’s pals Bowie, the Pet Shop Boys and AbFab

Screen

May 25, 2025

bySteve Pafford

Not For Me, Baby: Pet Shop Boys have tried to remix a Tina Turner leftover… with tepid results

Music

May 23, 2025

bySteve Pafford

Trending Now

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: Chris Cornell’s You Know My Name, from Casino Royale

July 19, 2024

bySteve Pafford

Random Jukebox: Blancmange’s Living On The Ceiling

June 13, 2024

bySteve Pafford

Random Jukebox: Ella Fitzgerald’s One Note Samba brings scat into ’69

April 25, 2024

bySteve Pafford

Random Jukebox

Perfect 10: RuPaul, with and without Drag Race

“Got a phone call from RuPaul the other night. He gave me a big break in America and put me on The RuPaul Show. He’s just wonderful. A seven-foot-tall basketball-playing, black motherfucker —…

Music

May 9, 2025

bySteve Pafford

Perfect 10: Georgetastic tunes for Saint George’s Day, old boy

Music

April 23, 2025

bySteve Pafford

Take It Or Leave It: Neil Tennant’s book and movie combo with Madness

Music

April 20, 2025

bySteve Pafford

45 at 45: Blondie’s Call Me

Music

April 18, 2025

bySteve Pafford

33 at 33: the solo triumph of Annie Lennox’s Diva

A rewind to April 1992, and 33 years ago not only was Annie Lennox’s full length solo debut sitting pretty atop the UK charts, but its coruscating contents revealed a liberated and liberating…

Music

April 16, 2025

bySteve Pafford

Events

Thirty-Three Times A Lady: Lady In Satin + The United States vs. Billie Holiday

March 30, 2025

bySteve Pafford

Vince Clarke on Michael Jackson being Dangerous

Music

March 29, 2025

bySteve Pafford

Perfect 10: Spring Sparklers

Music

March 8, 2025

bySteve Pafford

Revisiting the drugs and Drexel of David Bowie’s Young Americans

March 6, 2025

bySteve Pafford

BowieNet’s BowieStyle book preview at davidbowie.com

Oh lord, yet another Bowie book. Another collection of half-truths and misinformation illustrated with photographs we’ve all seen a thousand times before no doubt. Well actually,…

March 5, 2025

bySteve Pafford