Four syllables that say everything that needs to be said. From the Queen of Pop...
Category: Music
Beatle Bones
As Peter Jackson’s new documentary series, The Beatles: Get Back is released, my own two cents’ worth on the loveable mop-tops.I remember the first time I heard their second single, Please Please Me, in January 1963. I was fourteen, in the dining room, listening to Pick of the Pops on what was then the BBC … Continue reading Beatle Bones
Lost in music
Our relationship to the music we love is complex and, most of the time, has little to do with sound quality.
Fuckin’ up
The process of writing — at least as I practise it — is one of continual failure, and of the subsequent failure of all attempts to remedy that initial failure.