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The Beatles were invited down to London for a recording test at Decca Studios sixty years ago today, on New Years Day 1962. (In those days New Years…
I’ve been re-reading Mark Lewisohn’s majestic biography of the Beatles (or at least the first volume thereof; we fans are still waiting for him to release the second…
Sometimes London just thrills me. And it can be the smallest of things. There I am wandering through my life in this city and then I turn a…
I was venturing to North London – Tufnell Park to be precise – to watch the rugby in a pub with friends, anyway. But then my Songkick App…
Back from my holidays, I took the dog for an early evening, early Autumn walk on Clapham Common. Our first walk together in just under a month, we…
Sometimes you are in the right spot at the right time. On the last Friday evening before the clocks were turned back I found my self approaching St…
It were that time of the year again. Hey up! The brass band playing hordes descended upon the Royal Albert Hall from their northern and western (and, whisper…
Before this summer I had never attended a Prom concert. Which, for a music lover who enjoys the classical variety, is a pretty poor showing. Even worse, I…
Imagine living here on the edge of the Thames in a house that is not only beautiful but a couple of centuries old and shaped by the memory…
As I walked down St. Martin’s Lane the doors of the English National Opera which were ajar and the sound of singers practising their scales leaked out into…