“my sharona”

Fondly remembered this month...

Neville Marten recalls an early guitar influence that no-one else ever seemed to have heard of. Until an illuminating musicianly encounter…

Written about “sexual repression causing incredible desire among a school full of boys”, it was a No.1 across Europe, but a US flop.

By the time I’m 16, I am starting to develop a certain aesthetic revolving around beat literature and beat poetry. I’m starting to like Baudelaire, Rimbaud, so there’s a certain whiff of decadence in

The brothers Robinson recall the highs, lows and sibling spats of a 36-year recording career

WHEN I WAS about 12, my friend’s dad was hipping me to all kinds of incredible music. He gave me the 1974 Gram Parsons album Grievous Angel, which includes “Ooh Las Vegas,” a song that features some r