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Please don’t tell me my hero has feet of clay

25.09.09
I am in mourning for one of my favourite Sixties pop songs, California Dreamin’, by The Mamas and the Papas ... more

These are a few of my favourite things

07.09.09
JB Priestley’s 1949 collection of short essays about things that delighted him has been updated by the members of the London Library. From girl bands to Bexhill-on-Sea, here six of them reveal their secret delights...... more

Da Doo Ron Ron writer dies in New York at 68

27.08.09
Ellie Greenwich, who co-wrote some of the Sixties' most famous pop records including River Deep, Mountain High and Da Doo Ron Ron, has died in NewYork aged 68... more

Musical monster played for laughs in Telstar

19.06.09
Nick Moran’s film, based on his West End musical, lives up to its description as the stranger-than-fiction story of Joe Meek in Telstar.... more

Woo hoo! Blur are back on track

16.06.09
Just 170 souls were allowed to secure the green wristbands money couldn’t buy to see Blur play their first London show in nine years.... more

Jake Arnott: Joe Meek and Me

12.06.09
Novelist Jake Arnott is haunted by the ghost of the music producer whose life and shocking death in the gay underworld of Sixties London are the subject of a new film.... more

Eminem - the bad angel who produces great art

01.06.09
There's a pleasing irony in Eminem emerging from his Detroit stockade with a No 1 album, Relapse, the same week that the US's biggest motor manufacturer collapses. What's bad for GM is good for rap... more

I don’t buy the gospel according to Saint Tony

15.04.09
I never took to Tony Blair at all. I was never impressed by his populist touch, nor was I sure that the benefits of a Labour government that sacrificed its principles to the free market could be outweighed by the gains to the British people... more

Phil Spector the wild-eyed murderer will die in prison

14.04.09
Staring into the police camera after his conviction for murder, a wild-eyed Phil Spector faces up to the reality of spending the rest of his life - and death - behind bars... more

Off the record

05.12.08
From Keith Richards singing Run Rudolph Run to a Phil Spector tribute by Glasvegas, there is plenty to celebrate this Christmas.... more

No riots at XFM Winter Wonderland

03.12.08
Kaiser Chiefs had only 50 minutes to play at XFM Winter Wonderland, so they mixed'n'matched old and new songs and there are no prizes for guessing which went down best.... more

Glasvegas shake and stir

24.09.08
Glasvegas's hugely stirring rock songs will soon be bellowed by the same substantial, lad-heavy crowds as those in Arctic Monkeys and Oasis gigs, says David Smyth. ... more

CDs of the week

05.09.08
Joan Baez continues to keep her hand in with protest songs, Metallica won't gain new fans and Glasvegas bring out the debut album of the year.... more

Great Balls of Scandal: How Jerry Lee Lewis' marriage to a 13-year-old wrecked his career

23.05.08
Fifty years ago this week, Jerry Lee Lewis arrived in Britain and revealed his young companion was his 13-year-old wife, Myra. It destroyed the rock'n'roll sensation and set the pattern for decades of pop excess... more

CDs of the week

04.04.08
Camille undoes preconceptions of French pop, The Breeders release their most accomplished and ambitious album and alto-sax genius Charlie Parker's legacy continues.... more

Off the record

22.02.08
David Smyth asks how Brian 'Danger Mouse' Burton can follow his mega-hit Crazy, and looks at what's new on the net.... more

Glasgow band paints big picture

11.02.08
Drilled to within an inch of their musical lives, Glasvegas sound like everybody and nobody and suggest something truly special.... more

Off the record

08.02.08
David Smyth asks which US presidential candidate has the best tunes and highlights the hobo set to play a gig at the Royal Albert Hall.... more

Off the record

09.11.07
André Paine goes behind-the-scenes at the making of a charity single and recalls the time he met the coolest man in rock.... more

DVDs of the week

04.09.07
The week's top DVDs are led by an example of British film at its best in This Is England.... more

Off the record

10.08.07
David Smyth predicts big things for Liverpudlian Candie Payne, talks about Kanye's latest hook-up and lets us know all that's new in online music.... more

Rock solid Concretes

31.05.07
Swedish band The Concretes play in Kilburn, bringing their indie-girl harmonies and reverb-saturated sound to an intimate venue.... more

Now downloads drive BBC playlists

26.01.07
Changing record-buying habits and new chart rules have caused BBC radio stations to radically overhaul their playlists.... more

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