When I recently showed a cassette tape to my 11-year-old daughter, she looked genuinely baffled. ‘What is it?’ she asked. My first thought was that I’d failed as a parent, but then I realised there’s

Anyone walking down Manhattan’s West 28th Street in the early 20th century would have heard the clanging of multiple pianos – a cacophony that earned it the nickname ‘Tin Pan Alley’. It was the heart

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I was quietly enjoying a large gin and tonic at my local pub when I spotted my friend approaching armed with two pints of the rather lovely Adnams Jolly Old Ale dark winter brew. Clearly something was