Some 30 years ago, a 14-year-old schoolboy called Ian Bostridge was sitting in his first German lesson, when his teacher Richard Stokes had a brilliant idea: he would introduce the class to the glory of the language and the culture it inspired by playing a recording of Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau singing Schubert’s setting of Goethe’s […]
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Jess Denham writes: Noel Gallagher has admitted that forming Oasis with his “irritant” singer brother Liam led to the Britpop band’s downfall. The 48-year-old guitarist spoke to Radio 4’s Kirsty Young about the famous family feud while taking part in Desert Island Discs on Sunday morning.“You gain some kind of strength from being in a […]
Tony Andrews is the interviewer Q: How, When and Where did you realise you had an amazing Voice and the talent to use it to great effect. A: I honestly don’t think of myself that way. When I was in my early teens, people who knew me would ask me to sing, rather than try […]
Howard Popeck writes …. Hello Linda and Mo and thank you both for agreeing to this interview. I’m going to dive right in here re your approach to recording technology, formats, domestic music reproduction and more. Our jazz columnist Tony Andrews in part #2 will be focusing more on the music, your influences and more. […]
From the archives She’s sung with Tony Bennett, been likened to Ray Charles, and sold 15m albums – so what took her back to the 1920s? James McNair finds out MORE
Martin Chilton, Digital Culture Editor of The Telegraph writes ….. Asked what made her wish to record a whole album of cover songs, Rickie Lee Jones quips: “Money”. Joking aside, her selection of the 10 songs to interpret on her fine new album The Devil You Know is innovative and interesting. Tracks by the […]
Paul Lester (The Guardian) writes: The spotlights and the shoulderpads, the bushy moustaches and the floppy mullets, the vests, the soft-focus, the dry ice … no one who lived through the 1980s will be able to forget a Hall & Oates video. In I Can’t Go for That, for example, tall, blond Daryl Hall and […]
From hallucinatory stormers to Dylanesque big-city tales, here are 10 tracks that define an artist forever ahead of a game he always ended up losing Continues HERE
From our archives: In his new book, Pete Townshend charts his chaotic childhood, guitar-smashing heyday – and his 2003 arrest on child-pornography charges. He talks to Alexis Petridis MORE
Dave Simpson writes ….. Roger McGuinn, singer-songwriter: ‘When some DJs decided it was about drugs, it got banned – and that was the end of us’ Continues HERE
Lorraine McBride (THe Daily Telegraph) writes: Fame & Fortune: Level 42 singer and bassist Mark King talks about nights spent partying with Tina Turner and Madonna – and the truth about his £3m thumb What was your first job and how much did it pay? I played drums in a band called Pseudo Foot when […]
Interview by Paul Lester (The Guardian) Hi, Quincy. Good to talk to you, especially considering the time where you are (1.15am). You’re up late! I always am, fella. All my life. It’s the only time the muse lets you loose, you know? I used to write from midnight to 10 in the morning. You’ve got […]
Plus the future of The Who, memories of Moon and Entwistle and his rocky relationship with Roger Daltrey Please click HERE to continue
Victor L. Schermer writes: Benny Golson’s timeless ballad, “I Remember Clifford” is but one measure of the reverence and love with which Clifford Brown was regarded by musicians, friends, family, and fans. The affection in which he was held during his lifetime was made all the more poignant by his untimely death at the peak […]
At a Mississippi Delta festival, Robert Plant discusses the blues, Africa and his latest band with Paul Sexton MORE
Ray Davies says he is delighted to be in the Songwriters’ Hall of Fame as he tells the Hay Festival of his tempestuous times with The Kinks and how they were banned in America – and Wales Please click HERE to continue
Wes Phillips (Stereophile magazine) ….. Even though she calls her new band, 4×4, a “small” group, it’s a big band—almost too big for the stage of the Knitting Factory on the night of October 11, 2000, as it makes its first American appearance. Bley’s piano is so far to stage left, she has to lean […]
At the age of 67, James Taylor has made his 16th album, his first in 13 years. After spending his early career addicted to heroin, he’s surprised he made it this far Please click HERE to continue
Since 1956, when she first appeared at the Newport Jazz Festival, Toshiko Akiyoshi has been a significant force in the jazz world, both as pianist and composer. She was the first woman to win DownBeat magazine’s Best Arranger/Composer poll category. The New York Times called her “perhaps the most physically articulate conductor since Duke Ellington.” […]
Feature length DVD film, over 140 mins. Including live performance footage of: Oh Well, Albatross, Black Magic Woman, Man of the World, and many more. Over two hours of incredible, honest and under the skin footage shot as a feature and delivering a definitive insight into the life of Peter Green and those that surrounded […]
Nick Dureden writes: There is a lot of fun to be had in listening to Donovan’s latest greatest hits offering, Donovan: Retrospective, released to mark his 50th anniversary in music. Though essentially a facsimile of his many and varied hits collections over the years, his songs remain sublimely evocative of the era from which they […]
From the archive; Tom Service writes: The simple facts of Franz Schubert’s life shed little light on the enormous emotional range of his music, and the seismic effect his work has had. Living almost entirely in his home town of Vienna, he was a loyal but occasionally cantankerous and drunk friend to a tight-knit groups of […]
You started playing the trumpet when you were eight. What drew you to it? Well, my whole family’s pretty musical. My brother, Mike, was a great trumpet player, a child prodigy. My dad is a terrific trumpet player and my mom’s father was a professional trumpet player. Trumpet was sort of in the family. I […]
This interview by Miquel Cullen (The Independent): Bill Laswell is telling an anecdote about Ginger Baker, the scandal-prone Cream drummer and star of this year’s cult film Beware of Mr Baker: “In Tuscany, when I went to visit him in his abandoned farm house, nobody knew who he was. I remember Jimmy Page came to […]