● CERTAIN PHRASES, LIFTED FROM famous writers, ...

I went to art school to be a painter. Mick Jones went to art school to put a band together. My friend was invited to try out as drummer for Mick’s band, London SS, and I went to support him. They drag

Had Robin Holloway published Music’s Odyssey—described by its author as “an invitation to the glorious long voyage of Western classical music”—30 years ago, he might well have got away with it. By day

It was in Monty Python’s Life of Brian where Reg, the leader of the People’s Front of Judea, played by John Cleese, asks his followers “What have the Romans ever done for us?” Amusingly his disciples

“As movers and the moved both know”, John Updike noted, “books are heavy freight ... They make us think twice about changing addresses.” Books: A manifesto, or, How to build a library begins with the

ILLUSTRATION BY PAUL COX Going full Celt VOICING ...