Fondly remembered this month...

Reggae’s drummer Sly Dunbar left us on January 26.

October 16, 1947 – January 10, 2026

ALTHOUGH HE WAS 84 and had been ill for several years, the passing of soul-funk-R&B legend and general jack-of-all-trades Steve Cropper still stings — a lot. Perhaps it’s because Cropper, despite his

Louisiana soul man ROBERT FINLEY overcame his hardscrabble origins, loss and blindness to finally find success in his later life. Amazingly, he believes he still has much to prove. “Most people retire at 65,” he tells Kevin EG Perry. “Hell, I came alive at 65.”

Broadcaster and biographer Humphrey Burton became familiar to millions of television viewers in the early 1980s as the genial presenter of the BBC’s Young Musician of the Year, the programme he launch