This almost defies belief, and I'm still not sure whether it's just an elaborate wind-up, but according to the information I have be...

  For those who might be interested in a book about doo wop which is more than just a history of the changing personnel of a group or groups...

  Scott Walker died five years ago today, the 22nd of March. I first heard about it on Radio 4's Today Programme on the morning of the 2...

  For those who might be interested, Richard Moore, who has already put together two comprehensive collections of Peter Skellern's recor...

  Kliph Nesteroff is the author of the book The Comedians,  a gossipy, scandalous, irresistibly written history of the underside of the dev...

  I must have been eight years old when I first heard Waterloo Sunset, in the year of its release, and - like just about everyone else i...

My recommendation comes rather late, but if you are based in London and interested in the relationship between Thomas Hardy and his wives I ...

      There is, or so I've been given to understand, One who has numbered all my days. Despite the occasional pointer in the form of var...

   Someone mentioned on social media recently that Dennis Potter's Pennies From Heaven has not been broadcast or made available via st...

Before I review another book about the experience of being a backing musician for a doo wop group I thought I'd repost this assessment ...

  If you're reading this blog then you will probably know that Jerry Butler was a member of the Impressions, a doo wop/soul group which ...