Monthly Archives: June 2011

It’s always cheering when anyone from the music industry receives Queen’s Birthday/New Year’s honours, but it’s an especially good feeling when it happens to a good friend as well as a work colleague. I’ve known Tony since he joined EMI … Continue reading →

A record buying friend in America has hit upon a bunch of copies of ‘Disc and Music Echo’ back in the day when I worked there, and asked why I had the joyful task of interviewing a Tremeloe-a-week. Dunno how … Continue reading →

Reading the latest review by the incomparable West End Whingers, I’ve just been transported back 50 years to when I was a spotty teenager and a Frank Norman devotee. He was the edgiest writer I’d encountered until then, with his … Continue reading →