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1. MATT BUTTON (12pts) 2=. PHIL KINDERMANN, DARAGH O’HALLORAN (9 apiece) 3. ANDREW BOLAND (7) 4. David Cummings (6) 5. Ian Stewart (5) 6=. Alfred […]

Songwriter, actor and comedy club pioneer Charlie Dore, beamed from her plant-filled rural kitchen, remembers her piano-prodigy mum, old letters from the Beeb, being in […]

In which – on the day after England’s 2006 World Cup exit – we wonder if it’s compulsory to cry at sporting events, list the […]

Author Bruce Lindsay on his enthralling new book “Shellac And Swing: A Social History of the Gramophone In Britain”, a whirlwind tour that takes in […]

Writer, recording artist and old pal from the late ’70s NME, Gavin Martin expands on a lost weekend in Asbury Park, meeting George Best and […]

1. MATT BUTTON (12pts) 2. DARAGH O’HALLORAN (9) 3=. ANDREW BOLAND, PHIL KINDERMANN (7 apiece) 4. David Cummings (6)  5. Ian Stewart (5) 6=. Alfred […]

In which we remember Lady Di rollerskating in Kensington Palace with Duran Duran on her Walkman, invent fake rap stars and Mod Revival bands, applaud […]

In which we remember Lady Di rollerskating in Kensington Palace with Duran Duran on her Walkman, invent fake rap stars and Mod Revival bands, applaud […]

Tour-de-force architect of pub rock and old pal of the pod Graham Parker remembers nights onstage with Allen Ginsberg, Levon Helm & Rick Danko, writing […]

In which we tell the hoary old Elton John story, toast the incorrigible Neil Aspinall (Beatles roadie/Apple MD), lampoon trustafarian wastrels with rock star parents […]