When I first heard the rasp of the Keith Richards riff kicking off ‘(I Can’t Get No) Satisfaction’ (1965), it was like hearing ‘Heartbreak Hotel’ (1956) for the first...
Read MoreIn a column last year I expressed the opinion that Elvis Presley was one of the two greatest popular singers of the 20th century. The other, incontestably, was Frank...
Read MoreChampion sportspeople are often asked what they would have liked to be were they not the footballers, golfers or swimmers they are. Golfer Nick Faldo, for example, said...
Read MoreNeil Young reveals and Pete Townshend conceals in these contrasting rock & roll memoirs. The rock & roll confidential has occupied one of the least edifying...
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