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

July 10, 2026
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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

More PMs than realities: why Britain is always going up the hill backwards

June 22, 2026
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Random Jukebox: Duran Duran’s A View To A Kill + how they took over Bond from Bowie

May 12, 2025
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Random Jukebox: Pondering Patti LaBelle’s big-haired Bond theme If You Asked Me To

May 24, 2026

Perfect 10: Produced by Brian Eno

May 15, 2026
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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
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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…
April 25, 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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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

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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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
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