An accidental decade

Two albums recorded 50 years apart – the gear might have stayed the same, but the recording experience is completely different

The recording artist Simon Fisher Turner wields an impressively varied CV. Entering showbusiness as a child actor, he endured a brief spell as a teen pop idol before evolving into a sharp-eared curato

I look at pictures from my school days and the memories of that period instantly come flooding back. Thoughts of secondary school are quite mixed, with just as many negative ones as positive. But my p

At 16, I was doing my first year of A levels at a minor public school in Oxfordshire. I’d done pretty well in my GCSEs – I got one ‘B’, which disappointed me, but it was biology and I don’t feel it’s

At the start of the 1990s, Nick Heyward was at his lowest ebb. His third solo album, I Love You Avenue, had failed to chart in 1988. Warner unsurprisingly let him go. So had Heyward’s manager and his

HAVING LIVED WITH TOURETTE’S SINCE HIS TEENS, LATER BECOMING A CAMPAIGNER, JOHN DAVIDSON HAS ALWAYS BEEN AN UNRESTRAINED FORCE. ACCORDINGLY, THE I SWEAR TEAM PULLED OUT ALL THE STOPS…