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Say No Go: The surprise rehabilitation of Daryl Hall & John Oates (No Can Do)

June 6, 2026
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Perfect 10: Produced by Brian Eno

May 15, 2026

The day Frank Sinatra met Manic Street Preachers in Golders Green

May 14, 2026

Angel or Legend? Assessing Bob Marley

May 11, 2026

Happiness is a place called Richmond: my erstwhile neighbour David Attenborough at 100

May 8, 2026

May The Fourth Be With You: How Margaret Thatcher launched the Star Wars ‘holiday’

May 4, 2026

Mick Ronson on the wall: Heaven and Hell in Hull

April 29, 2026

Exclusive audio: Neil Tennant talks David Bowie, Michael Jackson and Take That

April 25, 2026

The murder of Stephen Lawrence 33 years on

April 22, 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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100 words for Windsor 

Historically, when it comes to notable Taureans April 21 has been a date with more than its fair share of Born On This Days, among them… Iggy Pop, of the Stooges Robert Smith, of the…
April 21, 2026
bySteve Pafford

You’re an actor too? That time I worked with David Tennant

April 18, 2026

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

March 23, 2026
Music

Russell Crowe: Another one who’s ballooned

This is not a joke. World Obesity Day is a thing. It exists. And since 2015 it’s been organised by the World Obesity Federation because, well, why not? If we the peoploids have to stand (or…
March 4, 2026
byjames Harris
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45 at 45(ish): Adam Ant is The Human League’s Mirror Man

In a different post, I did a bit of a switchback Sunday rewind and revisited some of the first slabs of vinyl I bought that expressly weren’t by Adam and his army of Ants. Number…
February 28, 2026
bySteve Pafford

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…
February 8, 2026
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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The Caped Crusader of camp: Holy Happy 60th, Batman!

One for the Bat-fam? Officially named 85 years ago (in the comic book pages of January 1941’s Batman #4, triv fans), the Bat-location of Gotham City was named after a village in the English…
January 15, 2026
bySteve Pafford

The Frank that drank: when Pet Shop Boys did dinner with Sinatra

Before every performance on 1989’s Ultimate Event triple header tour with Sammy Davis Jr. and Liza Minnelli, the American icon born Francis Albert Sinatra in Hoboken NJ one hundred and ten…
December 12, 2025
bySteve Pafford
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David Bowie’s DNA: Spaceboy Keeps Swinging

THE MAN WHO SOLD US THE WORLD, MADONNA & LADY GAGA David Bowie was the bisexual alien rock star who sold genderfuck to the world. He’s also claimed to be the first pop star to…
December 1, 2025
bySteve Pafford

FFF: The time Neil Tennant interviewed Marc Bolan for Marvel Comics

“Who d’you think you are, Captain Britain?” A certain kind of Marc Bolan aficionado will know all too well the elfin bopper had quite a penchant for comic books. The Beano, The Dandy, The…
November 5, 2025
bySteve Pafford
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