If British music has a soul, it resides in small venues. In hundreds of pub backrooms, grotty gig venues, DIY spaces and sweat-soaked basement clubs where lives are changed and,
Read FullThe ferry that once took people across the Mersey has ended up with a very sad retirement, rusting away on the banks of the Thames. This is the MV Royal
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Read Full“Very sad news this week about Astrid Kirchherr. Astrid was a dear friend from my Hamburg days with The Beatles. Another friend, Klaus Voormann, told me she had passed away
Read FullAs the various obituaries that marked her passing testify, Astrid Kirchherr’s fate was to be forever associated with the Beatles, a group she met almost by accident and whose image
Read FullLegendary Beatles photographer and collaborator Astrid Kirchherr has died, aged 81. Beatles historian Mark Lewisohn revealed the news on Twitter, calling Kirchherr “intelligent, inspirational, innovative, daring, artistic, awake, aware, beautiful, smart, loving
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Read Full‘From ‘Tutti Frutti’ to ‘Long Tall Sally’ to ‘Good Golly, Miss Molly’ to ‘Lucille’, Little Richard came screaming into my life when I was a teenager. I owe a lot
Read FullToday, May 9th 2020, will be recorded in the history books of popular culture as the day that one of rock music’s founding fathers, Little Richard, passed away. Richard, the
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