music ruined my life

The eighties was a lily-white decade, like the fifties but with more keyboards and hairspray. At the dawn of the decade, just getting Michae...

“God, I’m glad I’m not me.” Bob Dylan Recently, I told my father (a retired seventy-something philosophy professor and di...

A ccompanied With is a completist’s boot of all of Joe’s collaborations with artists like Jimmy Cliff, Black Grape, The Levellers, Brian Se...

"If you can't understand the lyrics - don't worry you're not alone." Joe Strummer Joe Strummer died six years ago. I...

In Dreams It began mid-set. The re-united Clash were playing at the Walker, a turn-of-the century theatre restored to a trace ...