Fondly remembered this month...

Here’s to the rock’n’rollers, among them musicians, songwriters producers, movers, shakers and others in the music industry who sadly left us in 2025. Thank you, and goodnight…

From The Bottom Of An Old Grandfather Clock (reissue, 2004) DEAD OCEANS

In 1976, the revolutionary singer-songwriter LAURA NYRO returned from self-imposed exile. But her comeback confounded expectations, shifting away from the impassioned intimacies of her early albums to embrace more radical perspectives. Fifty years on, Nyro’s collaborators revisit her striking second act. “She was a hip American from the Bronx,” one friend and producer tells Rob Hughes. “But her soul was old.”

Black And Blue UMC/POLYDOR

Gascoigne’s promise Despite his talents, Paul Gascoigne certainly ...