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News: Three new songs by The Ting Tings are available now on streaming services. Other news: These songs are completely different to what you may think The Ting Tings would sound like in 2025. The band’s Instagram page tells their story better than I can. “Overnight” success took five years of struggle, but when it [ ]
Anyone remember The Beatles Book (also known as the Beatles monthly)? It was an official magazine about the Beatles, edited by Sean O Mahony, which first appeared in 1963 and continued for 77 editions until the Beatles split up in 1970. The original Beatles monthly was a magazine for fans and was filled with photos of [ ]
In a used record shop in Nottingham in January I find a 1970 B.B. King LP with a picture of a guitar made from a watermelon on the cover. It s £8, and called Indianola Mississippi Seeds . Inside the beautiful gatefold cover is a photo of the birth certificate of Riley King, and amongst the musicians [ ]
An album of the year write up in early January feels wrong somehow. I feel slightly guilty sharing this list of 2022’s antiques when we are already a dozen days into a fresh new 2023, shinier and brighter than the year that preceded it. A year that promises much, including the outside possibility of having [ ]
Introduction I have a friend who has never heard any of Paul McCartney’s solo and Wings LPs, except for, as he put it, the Frog Chorus, the one about no man’s land at Christmas, and Ebony and Ivory. His view of McCartney is tainted. As he puts it, “my whole opinion on him is based [ ]