La Chanson Des Vieux Amants

I’ve always loved Jacques Brel’s La Chanson Des Vieux Amants. I was listening to it again the other day and…

Alex Harvey.

It would have been Alex Harvey’s 83rd birthday today.

Thoughts On ‘The Story Of The Jam: About The Young Idea.’

I was never a mod. Too awkward, too uncertain, too utterly lacking in cool or style, too scared of my own shadow. But I loved The Jam. Absolutely bloody loved them. I remember thinking — and saying — and believing — that, in the…

The Clash. White Man In Hammersmith Palais. Forty Years Old.

Built My Life Around You

I cried.

When I first heard about Chas Hodges last week, I was being all poncey and wine-drinking and…

Black Mountain College Museum, Asheville: Hazel Larsen Archer’s photo of Elizabeth Schmitt Jennerjahn.

In Search Of Chopsticks.

Part One.

I’m driving, as ever, on the wrong side of the road. And I’m listening to Howlin’ Wolf. And the…

Eunice

Nina Simone’s Childhood Home, Tryon, NC

Tryon, NC. The sun was shining. The air was sharp and still. The house was sad…

Greenland. Day 10: Disappearance.

When you go away from the people you love, they worry you may not come back — and you worry about them worrying. When you go away, you worry they might forget you, go off you, finally realise all your flaws and eccentricities and doubts are too much to take — and you…

3/6/18. Patti Smith In London.

It’s the end of a week in which I’d said goodbye to another fine, wild man at his funeral and held clumsy…