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…
We shall overcome? Why Marvin Gaye’s What’s Going On is more relevant than ever
Racism, police brutality, riots, war, unemployment, disasters, environmental crisis: you could be forgiven for thinking What’s Going On is a record of our times in the 2020s. But no, it’s a…
Die young, stay pretty: the intimacy and iconography of James Dean
True to his “live fast, die young” philosophy, James Byron Dean, the archetypal angry Rebel Without A Cause, was born 95 years ago today, just 24 years before being obliterated at the wheel of…
