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Black celebration: dissecting Depeche Mode’s Violator

April 24, 2026
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You’re an actor too? That time I worked with David Tennant

April 18, 2026

Random Jukebox: Pondering Patti LaBelle’s big-haired Bond theme If You Asked Me To

April 14, 2026

It Was 11 Years Ago Today: Dusty Springfield’s Faithful found in the nick of time

April 7, 2026

The winners took it all: ABBA’s Waterloo at 52

April 6, 2026

One could almost call it an altar: ten things you didn’t know about Elizabeth Taylor

March 23, 2026

Licence to flop: The trouble with Timothy Dalton

March 21, 2026

Even better than the real thing: 11 Irish Icons that aren’t U2

March 17, 2026

Formidable femmes: The 115 women who changed the world

March 7, 2026
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Random Jukebox: Duran Duran’s A View To A Kill + how they took over Bond from Bowie

May 12, 2025
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Six degrees of separation: How often do you think of Fanny?

February 26, 2026

Die young, stay pretty: the intimacy and iconography of James Dean

February 8, 2026
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The Moolah Of Suburbia: cashing in on Bowie’s Bromley house 

“See these tiles so green…” So, a full decade after his ascension to that great Stardust in the sky, it’s been announced that one of David Bowie’s childhood homes is to be turned into a…
January 10, 2026
bySteve Pafford
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The Grand Illusion of David Bowie: David Currie book foreword by Steve Pafford

Dear me, I have to admit this is something of a tough read. A foreword for a book by David Currie that was eventually published by Legends Publishing in 2024 as a beautifully illustrated…
January 8, 2026
bySteve Pafford

The Youth of Today: That time Neil Tennant interviewed Musical Youth in Smash Hits

Musical Youth were the British pop phenomenon of 1982: a group of five brummie lads inspired by New Edition and The Jackson 5 who were aged between 11 and 15 when ‘Pass The…
December 6, 2025
bySteve Pafford
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Random Jukebox: Dinah Washington’s Mad About The Boy

One hundred years ago, jazz and blues singer Dinah Washington was born in Alabama. The Grammy-winning “Queen of the Jukeboxes” would leave this bitter earth behind at the tender age of 39,…
August 28, 2024
bySteve Pafford
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Love is a stranger in an open car: locating Eurythmics in Little Venice

Released on 8 November 1982, Love Is A Stranger is very possibly my favourite Eurythmics single. Although its original chart position of 54 was a disappointment, the song benefitted from being…
November 8, 2025
bySteve Pafford

Suzanne Vega talks Lou Reed

On the twelfth anniversary of his death, Suzanne Vega talks Velvet Underground mainman Lou Reed The first concert I was taken to was Lou Reed in 1979. He was smoking, throwing lit cigarettes…
October 27, 2025
bySteve Pafford
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80 Words For Bryan Ferry

When David Bowie issued his penultimate Blackstar single in November 2015 I posted something online — alas, long lost to cyberspace — that commended the Dame as the “greatest songwriter after…
September 26, 2025
bySteve Pafford

It Was 40 Years Ago Today: Freddie Mercury’s Infamous 39th Birthday Party

Not about to bite the dust just because he was turning 38, on his birthday party at London’s Xenon nightclub on September 5, 1984, Freddie Mercury chomped his way a five-foot-long birthday…
September 5, 2025
bySteve Pafford
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