Being Bad
Embed from Getty Images A short extract from the opening chapter of John Scanlan, Sex Pistols: Poison in the Machine… Read More »
Bowie Bonds
In the early 1990s David Bowie began to detach himself from the weight of his own musical legacy, and in… Read More »
Song Noir
I really became a character in my own story. I’d go out at night, get drunk, fall asleep underneath a… Read More »
NY Day, 1977
A film by Julien Temple, broadcast on BBC Four on January 1st, 40 years after the event. An interesting snapshot… Read More »
A hell of a haircut
Forty years ago today, on tour with the Clash, Richard Hell. I go into some detail about Malcolm McLaren’s attempt… Read More »
Semi-Detached
‘The Kinks: Songs of the Semi-Detached’ by Mark Doyle (expected 2018). Of all the great British rock bands of the 1960s,… Read More »
The Passenger
‘Iggy Pop: The Passenger’ by Stephen Barber (expected 2017-18) will take an original approach to the fifty-year anti-career in music… Read More »
New Rose
22 Oct 1976. Release of ‘New Rose’ by the Damned on Stiff Records, the first UK punk single. Above image… Read More »
Clash …
09 Oct 1976. Tonight, the Clash in Leighton Buzzard at the Tiddenfoot Leisure Centre, which – in the words of… Read More »
Metallic K.O.
25 SEPT. 1976. In UK record stores this very day – on import from France – was Metallic KO by… Read More »